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#1 KevinKorell

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Posted 30 September 2016 - 01:05 AM

Curbed Chicago, 9/29/16:



 

CTA confirms Red Line extension south to 130th Street



Today the CTA presented some good news for residents on the city’s Far South Side: the Red Line extension project to 130th Street is moving forward. The plan, which the CTA says will help to create 29,000 new “direct, indirect and induced jobs,” will add four new stations to the Red Line. Those stations will be at 103rd Street and Eggleston Avenue, 111th Street and Eggleston Avenue, Michigan Avenue and 116th Street, and finally one at 130th near the Bishop Ford Freeway interchange.

 


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Posted 02 November 2016 - 08:25 PM

Chicago Tribune, 11/2:
 

With movement on CTA Red Line extension, gentrification questions arise

 

More than 250 people crowded a South Side church basement Tuesday evening to ask CTA officials questions about the proposed CTA Red Line extension to 130th Street — with many happy about the project but wondering why it has taken so long to happen.

 

"It should have been built 50 years ago, with the Dan Ryan (Expressway)," said Sylvia Jones, among those attending the open house Tuesday at St. John Missionary Baptist Church. A community activist and Baptist minister, Jones has advocated for the extension for years. "It's very much needed."

 

Activist Lou Turner, though pleased the project is going forward after decades of discussion, said he also wished it hadn't taken so long and had concerns that some residents may get pushed out by gentrification once the L goes through.

 

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Posted 02 November 2016 - 08:30 PM

StreetsBlog Chicago, 11/2:
 

CTA to Spend Millions on Building Parking Garages for Red Line Extension

 

The Chicago Transit Authority published its Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Red Line extension from 95th St. to 130th St. in the Riverdale community area last month, and it includes a couple of good and bad surprises. An EIS is a study that federal law requires before the United States Department of Transportation fund any highway or transit infrastructure.

 

Scattered within it, the CTA describes how it intends to operate service on the extension, on which it’s proposed four new stops, at 130th, in Roseland, Pullman, West Pullman, and Riverdale.

 

The EIS outlines the CTA’s intention to build thousands of expensive new car parking spaces next to each of the stations, an atrocious use of public funds.  .  .  .

 

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Posted 06 November 2016 - 09:04 AM

dnainfo Chicago, IL 11/4:
 

Dozens of Homes Would Need To Be Demolished Under Red Line Extension

 

ROSELAND — Dozens of buildings, including homes, would need to be demolished under a proposed extension of the Red Line, officials said at a community meeting Tuesday night.

 

The meeting, held by the CTA and the Federal Transit Administration to discuss a plan to stretch the line 5.3 miles from its current 95th Street stop to 130th Street, drew more than 250 people to St. John Missionary Baptist Church, 211 E. 111th St.

 

Officials are considering two routes, an east option and a west option.

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The Union Pacific railroad alternative has two options, an east and west option. [CTA]

 

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Posted 10 November 2016 - 02:09 PM

dnainfo Chicago, IL 11/8:
 

Red Line Extension Could Run Through Parks Along Route

 

ROSELAND — A few Far South Side parks could lose land — but possibly get improvements — under a proposed extension of the Red Line, officials said.

 

CTA officials are considering two routes, an east option and a west option, to extend the Red Line 5.3 miles from 95th Street to 130th Street.

 

 

Under the east option, the northwest corner of Wendell Smith Park, 9912 S. Princeton Ave., and the western part of Block Park, 346 W. 104th St., would be permanently affected.

 

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Under the west option, approximately 1.9 acres of Fernwood Parkway from 99th Street to 103rd Street between the existing Union Pacific Railroad tracks and Eggleston Avenue would be affected.

 

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Posted 30 November 2016 - 11:43 AM

Progressive Railroading, 11/30:

CTA OKs extra funds for Red Line extension

The Chicago Transit Authority's (CTA) board has amended its five-year capital budget to include an additional $75 million for Red Line extension project.

The additional dollars will allow the agency to advance the preliminary engineering and analysis needed to finalize the project alignment and complete a final environmental impact statement, CTA officials said in a press release.

 

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Posted 30 November 2016 - 03:38 PM

Chicago Business Journal, 11/28:
 

CTA amends budget to pave way for major south side rail extension

 

 

Mayor Rahm Emanuel has focused considerable attention on Chicago's African-American community in the wake of the release of the Laquan McDonald video a year ago and the fury that video unleashed among an important constituency for Emanuel. The video showed McDonald walking away from police as they opened fire on and shot dead the young man.

 

Efforts to improve the transit infrastructure on the south side where many in that constituency reside has been one way Emanuel has tried to make amends.

 

Toward that end, the mayor announced today that he and the Chicago Transit Authority have amended the budget for the public transportation system to include $75 million in funding for a proposed Red Line Extension (RLE) project to extend Red Line rail service on the city's south side to 130th Street from 95th Street, where the line now ends. The extension would encompass four new rail stations on the far south side as well.

 

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Posted 26 January 2018 - 09:02 AM

Chicago Tribune​ via MSN 1/26/18:

CTA determines path for proposed Red Line south extension to 130th Street

 

 

 

The CTA has decided on a path for its proposed extension of the Red Line's south branch, bringing the long-discussed project one step closer to getting done.

 

The proposed route, which will be announced Friday, starts at 95th Street and would run along the west side of the Union Pacific Railroad tracks from I-57 south to about 109th Street. There it would cross the UP tracks and continue along the east side of the tracks until crossing Metra Electric tracks near 119th Street, and then continue south to 130th Street, the CTA said.

 

The 5.3-mile extension would include four new stations near 103rd Street, 111th Street, Michigan Avenue near 115th Street, and 130th Street with parking and bus connections.

 

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Posted 27 January 2018 - 08:43 PM

Chicago Tribune,​ 1/26/18:

As officials plan Red Line extension, there's still no green to fund it

 

 

 

For Yolanda Christian, news that the CTA has chosen a path for its extension of the Red Line from 95th to 130th streets was music to her ears.

 

“They’ve been talking about this since I was a child,” said Christian, 45, who lives in the Altgeld Gardens complex on the city’s Far South Side. She said she and her neighbors must endure long bus rides just to get to the train to get to downtown jobs. “I think we really need this.”

 

The 5.3-mile, $2.3 billion Red Line extension, which would run on both the west and east sides of the Union Pacific Railroad tracks — a long stretch of it west of Wentworth Avenue in Chicago — to suburban Riverdale, was announced by the CTA on Friday. The extended line would fill in what community activists have called a “transit desert” on the South Side.

 

But now that the CTA has an idea about where to put the elevated train extension, the big question is how to pay for it.

 

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Posted 27 January 2018 - 08:46 PM

​Chicago Tribune,​ 1/26/18:

Five takeaways after CTA announces route for Red Line ‘L’ extension

 

 

 

The Chicago Transit Authority announced Friday where exactly they’ll carve a path to extend the Red Line on the South Side and neighboring Riverdale.

 

That doesn’t mean they’re ready to break ground on the project, which city officials have talked about for more than 40 years. There’s the issue of money (the city hasn’t secured any) and bureaucracy (there’s plenty) when any major public project is launched. Extending the Red Line south of the current 95th Street terminus — in the middle of the Dan Ryan Expressway — will likely be no different. Some takeaways:

 

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