CTA awards contract for five Blue Line station rehabilitations

Written by Jenifer Nunez, assistant editor

The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) Board approved the award of a $25.6-million contract to F.H. Paschen and S.N. Nielsen for the renovation of five O'Hare branch CTA stations, in what is the next major phase of the historic $492 -million Your New Blue modernization project.

 

The contract is part of a $43-million station improvement plan will provide customers a safer, more comfortable transit experience and are part of the ongoing modernization of CTA train and bus service across the city. The CTA expects to begin the rehabilitation of the Addison, Irving Park, Montrose, Harlem and Cumberland stations this fall.

At Addison, the work will include installation of a new elevator and new stairway; extend stationhouse and enclose new stairway; improvements to platform and platform canopies; refurbish platform furniture (i.e. benches, windbreakers, trash bins, etc.); repairs to platform canopies; new lighting and painting of station and platform.

At the Irving Park and Montrose station, work will include improvements to platform and platform canopies; replacing walkway railings and; renovating platform furniture; repairs to platform canopies and new lighting and painting of station houses and platforms.

Harlem station work will include improvements to the platform, platform canopy floors and walkways; repairs to stationhouse curtain walls; rehabilitation of platform furniture and new lighting and painting.

At Cumberland, the work will include improvements to platform, platform canopies and walkways; replacement of stationhouse curtain walls and other improvements, including new lighting and painting at the stationhouses, platforms and walkways and modest renewal of the station houses and platforms, which includes new lighting and painting.

Design work expected to begin this spring, with work anticipated to begin at Addison by this fall. All station project work will be substantially completed by fall 2016.

 

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