CTA plans $482-million blue line rehab - Industry today - Chicago Transit Authority Board contract with Kiewit Delgado - Brief Article

Railway Track and Structures, August, 2001

The Chicago Transit Authority Board approved a $317-million construction contract for Kiewit Delgado, AJV, to rehabilitate the Douglas Branch of the Blue Line. Under the proposed agreement, the firm will oversee a comprehensive construction project to restore the branch so that it is 100 percent ADA-compliant in addition to allowing faster travel times. The federal government will share in the $482-million total cost of rehabbing the 105-year-old line.

Work includes six newly-rebuilt, fully-accessible stations, 6.6 miles of new train control signals and communications, six new interlockings, renewal of 175 column foundations, installation of 720 new caissons, removal and replacement of 350 spans of structure, replacement of five miles of rails and ties, upgrading/renewing special trackwork, reconfiguring and renewing the 100-car storage yard at 54th Street and replacement of three bridges at Western, Ogden and Keeler Avenues.