Harvey station (Illinois)
Harvey is one of two Metra Electric commuter rail stations along the line's Main Branch in Harvey, Illinois. The station is located at Park Avenue and 154th Street, and is away from the northern terminus at Millennium Station. In Metra's zone-based fare system, Harvey is in zone 2., Harvey is the 102nd busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 471 weekday boardings.
The station is located two blocks from City Hall, and next to Pace's Harvey Transportation Center.
Parking is available along Park Avenue and the west side of the tracks between 155th Street and a bridge for a Canadian National Railway line that crosses underneath the Metra Electric Main Branch, as well as the Amtrak line that runs parallel to it, carrying the City of [New Orleans (train)|City of New Orleans], Illini, and Saluki trains. These tracks carried the intercity-trains of the Illinois Central until 1971, and most trains stopped here. It also contains a much larger parking lot on the east side of the tracks surrounded by 155th Street, Commercial Avenue, and 156th Street.
On the evening of October 12, 1979, a switchman incorrectly aligned a switch in front of an oncoming Amtrak train, leading it to go across a now-removed crossover into a stationary freight train. The resulting crash killed 2 crew members of the freight train in what would become known as the Harvey, Illinois train collision.
The station is scheduled to be completely reconstructed in the near future, modernizing it and the nearby Pace bus terminal and making both ADA accessible.
Bus connections
Pace348 Harvey/Riverdale/Blue Island 349 South Western 350 Sibley 352 Halsted 354 Harvey/Oak Forest Loop 356 Harvey/Homewood/Tinley Park 360 Harvey/Amazon Monee Express 361 Harvey/Laraway Crossings Express 364 159th Street 890 Chicago Heights/UPS Hodgkins