The scope includes replacement of the current IBS equipment, which includes 725 units of Intelligent Vehicle Logic Units (IVLU), Mobile Data Terminals (MDT), antennas, interface cabling, adapter cables, radio cables, and installation & conversion kits, replacement of 34 access points, and the purchase of two MCC-7100 dispatch radios. This project will be phased in over three years using ICE funding. Pace will award a single contract for the whole scope, but will award funding as it becomes available over the three year period. Funding: 2018 ICE: $1,635,000

The project includes operational improvements to the identified bus routes as follows:

26 - Expanded hours of service and all trips will begin and end at 103rd/Stony Island;

34 - More frequent midday and evening service;

71 - More frequent midday service all trips operation to and from 112th/Torrence improving frequency of service south of 73rd St;

95 - Routes 95E and 95W are combined into a single route providing more convenient service for customers traveling along 95th St;

119 - More frequent midday and evening service; and Green Line rail service improvements offering more frequent service from Cottage Grove and 63rd/Ashland during AM and PM rush.

4 Cottage Grove - Selected trips extended throughout the day from 95th to 115th/Cottage Grove.

X9 Ashland Express and #X49 Western Express bus routes Rush period limited stop bus service in the busy Ashland and Western bus corridors.

Funding:
2018 ICE: $6,037,270

This project will replace Metra's train tracking, passenger information, and passenger counting systems with a new, unified system. The new systems will maintain the necessary current functions of the existing separate systems while potentially adding video surveillance and customer information displays.

Provides for the replacement of DVRs on Metra locomotives, cab cars, and EMUs with a new technology that is faster and less grainy. It also provides for inward facing cameras, as required by the Federal Fast Act. Funding: 2017 ICE: $1,500,000

This project includes operational improvements as follows:

4 - Selected trips to operate to and from 115th/Cottage Grove;

26 - Expanded hours of service and all trips will now begin and end at 103rd/Stony Island;

34 - More frequent midday and evening service;

71 - More frequent midday service with all trips operating to/from 112th/Torrence improving frequency of service south of 73rd Street;

95 - Routes 95E and 95W have been combined into a single route providing more convenient service for customers traveling along 95th Street;

119 - More frequent midday and evening service; and

Green Line - More frequent service from Cottage Grove and 63rd/Ashland during AM and PM rush.

Funding:
2017 ICE: $6,329,515