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CTA gives timeline for All‑Stations Accessibility and Red‑Purple Modernization openings
Summary
CTA staff reported progress on the All Stations Accessibility Program (ASAP) and the Red‑Purple Modernization Phase 1, including wastewater electrical feed work, new stationhouses and an expected service cutover and public commemorative rides this summer; elevator commissioning and punch‑list work will continue into fall.
Bill Mooney, the Chicago Transit Authority’s chief infrastructure officer, told the ADA Advisory Committee that construction on multiple ASAP stations and Red‑Purple Modernization (RPM) Phase 1 stations is advancing and produced an approximate timeline for openings and remaining work.
Mooney said crews are finishing stationhouses and elevator systems at Racine on the Green Line and completing platform and canopy work at Bryn Mawr, Berwyn, Argyle and Lawrence on the Red Line, and that State/Lake on the Loop recently received a notice to proceed. “We are right now targeting late September, early October opening,” Mooney said of the Racine station,…
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