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Chicago Transit Authority Launches Red/Purple Line Modernization

September 23, 2019

Via: ENR

Most of the Chicago Transit Authority’s Red/Purple Line is more than 100 years old. On the city’s north side between the Lawrence and Bryn Mawr stations, the wooden tracks are supported by structural steel supports that are held together by rivets. There is no drainage system below the tracks.

“It has its own beauty, in my eyes,” says Chris Bushell, the CTA’s project executive in charge of the modernization, “but it also isn’t particularly modern.”

The $2.1-billion Red/Purple Line modernization project aims to change that. Phase 1 of the federal- and city-funded project is scheduled to begin by the end of October—or as quickly as permits are issued this fall.

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