CTA finalizes 95th St. Terminal design

Written by Jenifer Nunez, assistant editor
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The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) has finalized a design for the new 95th Street Terminal—a $280-million project to completely rebuild the Red Line South's busiest station to create a safer, more-efficient environment for transit riders.

 

“With these improvements and this investment in local transit, we are connecting more South Side residents with jobs, education and opportunity,” said Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. “Improving rail and bus transit service in Chicago – including 95th Street, one of the CTA’s busiest bus and rail terminals – benefits customers, grows our regional economy and helps our neighborhoods prosper.”

“In building a new, state-of-the-art CTA transit hub for the South Side, Mayor Emanuel and I strongly believe that form and function are both very important to this project,” said CTA President Dorval Carter, Jr. “This terminal will provide a safer, more convenient and pleasant commuting environment for the 20,000-plus customers who pass through 95th each day, complementing the additional South Side rail and bus improvements we plan to roll out starting next week through the fall months.”

The new 95th Street Terminal design is a refinement of previous designs for the bus and rail terminal. CTA says the new designs present a much bolder architectural statement, befitting what will be the signature station of the CTA system.

The 95th Street project will expand and greatly improve the terminal with 24-hour Red Line service and more than 1,000 CTA and Pace bus trips on a typical weekday. This work will help improve the movement of train traffic in and out of the 98th yard and through the 95th Terminal, which services the Red Line.

The design, developed with the project’s general contractor Paschen Milhouse Joint Venture IV and architectural firm exp US services, keeps all of the terminal’s primary design elements, including covered bus bays and pedestrian walkways to provide protection from the weather, as well as the pedestrian bridge that will connect the two terminal buildings to be located on the north and south sides of 95th Street.

The design has been refined to include the distinct red color of the station exterior, which will serve as an iconic identifier to CTA’s busiest rail line and other modifications to the design throughout the station.

CTA began the construction on the foundation of the new terminal in 2014, which will be located along the Dan Ryan Expressway at 95th Street, where the current 95th station is located. Construction of the new south terminal building begins this summer. The new south terminal will be completed in 2017 and the new north terminal building will open in 2018.

 

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