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Blue Line extension is back on the menu

Chicago in the running for billions in new transportation funds: Buttigieg

Chicago is well positioned to receive funds under two new huge pots of money being made available under President Joe Biden’s $1 billion infrastructure plan—but it’s going to have to compete against other regions and tailor its proposals to follow federal policies if it’s to win.

That’s the word from U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who in a phone interview alongside U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood, D-Naperville, outlined some of the new opportunities to jump start some very big projects here, projects that will compete for $2.9 billion the feds will award by year’s end.

Local officials haven’t disclosed which projects here they’ll enter into the bidding. But reliable sources say local contenders could include reconstruction of North DuSable Lake Shore Drive, extension of the Chicago Transit Authority’s Blue Line to Mannheim Road as part of reconstruction of the Eisenhower Expressway (I-90), completing the partially-funded 75th Street rail grade-separation project, and renovation of Union Station as well as the addition of a new Metra stop in the booming Fulton Market district.
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Other projects could compete for other pots of money in the infrastructure bill. For instance, extension of the CTA’s Red Line south to the city limits is likely to be a candidate for money under the new-start provision of the law.

https://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg...tructure-funds