Dick Durbin

Yesterday the administration began to make good on its promise to help fund the RLE including a request for $350 million in Biden’s fiscal year 2024 discretionary funding request.

New sidewalks will be installed, and the bridges will all get bike lanes and concrete infill. However, physically protected bikeways are not in the works.

What if we focused on getting the CTA workforce up to full strength as a strategy to increase reliability, ridership, and safety, by having more eyes in the 'L' cars to deter crime and bad behavior?

The operations funds will help address service gaps due to labor shortages. Plus federal grant programs were announced that the CTA can apply for to fund plans to electrify its bus fleet by 2040.

The span is the second of five planned bridges to improve lakefront access on the South Side.

The safety technology installation project isn't expected to be completed until 2021.

The plan cuts federal funding for transit and Amtrak, and Trump's 2019 budget calls for eliminating a key source of grants for CTA projects.

This afternoon officials cut the ribbon on the Union Station Transit Center, a new facility across the street from the Amtrak and Metra hub that will make it easier to make transfers and will better organize West Loop traffic. The transit center opens to the public this Sunday. It’s the latest step in the development of the Loop Link bus rapid transit route, which debuted on Washington and Madison Streets last December.

This morning, local politicians heralded $7 million in new funding for a terminal planning study and service development plan that will help increase capacity at Chicago’s 90-year-old Union Station and on the rail lines that lead to it. This comes in addition to the $12 million that Amtrak pledged back in January for rehabbing the historic terminal. The city of Chicago eventually hopes to work with the United States Department of Transportation, the state of Illinois, Metra and Amtrak to undertake a complete overhaul of the station, which would take several years and cost an estimated $500 million.