Expecting to run more trains to downtown Chicago in about two years, the South Shore Line plans to add a platform at each station there.
The South Shore Line will work on the project at the Millennium and Van Buren Street stations with Metra, the Chicago-area commuter rail line that owns the stations.“At the end of the day, it’s a great project for both Metra and NICTD,” South Shore Line President Michael Noland told the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District board Monday. NICTD owns the South Shore Line.
The railroad needs more station capacity at the downtown Chicago stations, he said, because it plans to add 26 trains to its daily schedule when both the West Lake Corridor and Double Track projects, now under construction, are completed about two years from now. Metra will do most of the work, Noland said, but NICTD wants to have “our own eyes and ears on the project.”
Construction is on schedule to be completed in November. Testing of the new tracks and systems, including positive train control, will continue until next spring, and Noland expects trains to be running there on a new schedule around May 2024.He said West Lake Corridor project, a new rail line from Hammond to the Munster/Dyer border, is about 25 percent complete, with complications including plans to cross a major national railroad in two locations.
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