“I am pleased to be able to deliver on our promise of more reliable service to CTA rail customers,” said CTA president Dorval Carter, Jr. (Former mayor Rahm Emanuel exaggerated the potential time savings as "three to four minutes" during a 2014 press conference.) The current track configuration forces Purple and Red trains to wait while northbound Brown Line trains cross the tracks. The bypass should also shave a little time off commutes, since the trains are typically delayed by a couple dozen seconds as they wait for other lines to pass. The agency has promised that by unclogging the so-called Clark Junction, the flyover will enable the addition of up to eight more Red Line trains, carrying 30 percent (7,200) more riders per hour during rush periods. The CTA says is a bottleneck for service across the entire rail system. As it stands, Red and Purple trains have to wait when northbound Brown trains turn west across the north-south tracks. The flyover gets rid of a 114-year-old rail intersection of the Red, Purple, and Brown lines that carried about 150,000 rides each weekday prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. (The agency confirmed yesterday that there will be a Phase Two, but they're not exactly sure what that will entail, let alone when it will happen.) RPM is billed as the largest reconstruction project in CTA history, modernizing and replacing century-old rail structures and four stations stations. The $320 million bypass is the first chunk of work completed as part of the $2.1 billion Red and Purple Modernization Phase One project. After completing the Loop Elevated circuit, it will head north again, arriving at Belmont around 5 a.m., and then continuing north and west over the flyover, giving riders a never-before-seen vista of the system and the city. The CTA says it's the first new, permanent track line to go into service since the Orange Line debuted in 1993.Īccording agency spokesperson Tammy Chase, the first Brown Line train to use the overpass will depart the Kimball stop in Albany Park around 4 a.m. IAXNvq1Vzv- John Greenfield November 19, 2021Īfter an apparent false alarm earlier this week, the CTA's Belmont Flyover, officially called the Red-Purple Bypass, the roller coaster-like piece of infrastructure that will eliminate a current Red/Purple/Brown logjam north of the Belmont station in Lakeview, will actually be going into service early Friday morning. All right we have gone over the Belmont Flyover.
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