Ohio’s Brook Park The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority and the Cleveland Browns have been discussing the potential of constructing a new train station adjacent to the Brook Park stadium site.
About 3,000 feet south of the current RTA Brookpark Rapid Station, the Browns have found a possible site.
In answer to a query from a homeowner during a Brook Park council hearing on zoning problems Thursday night, David Jenkins, the chief operating officer of the Browns and the associated Haslam Sports Group, stated, “We’ve been in pretty productive dialogue about how to bring mass transit to the site.”
He continued by outlining a possible location for a station just west of the stadium grounds, stating that it would be a fantastic way to provide our game day staff and fans with a really fast, straightforward route to access to the structure.
In response to follow-up inquiries on Friday, a Browns representative informed cleveland.com that the talks were not advanced enough to go into detail about cost projections or potential funding sources.
RTA acknowledged that it had been in discussions with the club on the creation of conceptual designs, but it referred inquiries concerning the price and payment methods to the Haslam Sports Group.
RTA recently renovated its neighboring Brookpark Station, which cost $16.5 million and was finished in 2017.
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Considering that shuttles may be delayed in traffic, Brook Park Mayor Edward Orcutt stated during Thursday’s meeting that a number of possibilities were being considered, including whether it would be possible to operate shuttles between the stadium and the current Brookpark Station.
According to Orcutt, the Brookpark Station is located somewhat less than a mile from the stadium site, which is the same distance as the Tower City station of the RTA from the existing stadium on the lakefront.
Instead of switching to the Waterfront Line that stops near to the stadium, some fans who take public transportation to games now choose to walk that distance.
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