Project Management Oversight (PMO) Capital Projects
The RTA is responsible for ensuring that the Service Boards are spending capital funds and managing their capital projects effectively and efficiently. The RTA conducts periodic project reviews with Service Board project managers to ensure that capital projects are being implemented according to scope, on schedule, within budget and according to established project management guidelines.
Each project listed below is being actively monitored by RTA’s PMO team. Reporting data is provided that includes, Project Start Date, Project End Date, Budget Status, Schedule Status and Current Activities. These projects are also part of the overall Regional Capital Program which can be viewed separately here.
PMO also produces semi-annual reports that cover all projects that are being monitored. These reports can be found on the Project Management Oversight site. The latest report is the December 2023 Project Management Oversight report.
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| + | Metra | New Bi-Level Rail Cars Purchase | Rolling Stock | Rail | $0 | $207,745,501 | On Schedule | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Project DetailsDescription
This project funds the long-term railcar replacement program and will purchase up to 500 state-of-the-art railcars. The modern, multilevel railcars will offer a smoother and more comfortable ride. Metra's new railcars will have two entranceways on each side with doors nearly level to the platform which will improve the speed of boarding and deboarding at each station. Boarding will require only one step to enter and faster wheelchair lifts will bridge the slight difference between the station platform and the floor of the railcars. The new railcars will require significantly less maintenance time and frequency, thereby reducing operating costs. Initial plans are to retire as many as 300 railcars from Metra's fleet that are nearing 50 years old.
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PMO:
^Total Project Budget is the project budget being tracked by the RTA PMO Group Current Status
Alstom continued to submit various design changes and mock-ups for the final design document packages to Metra. Communications between Metra, Alstom, VRE and other parties are continuous. Metra has pushed back the Final Design Review meetings to December 2023 to allow more time for finalizing of design. Approval of some changes are expected in the following reporting period.
Last Updated 12.14.2023 |
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| + | Metra | Car Rehab (Nippon Sharyo Highliners) | Rolling Stock | Rail | $64,562,000 | $190,057,000 | On Schedule | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Project DetailsDescription
This project funds the continued rehabilitation of self-propelled electric cars used on the Metra Electric. The cars delivered between 2005 and 2007. This first rehabilitation may include, but is not limited to, repair of the car body structure, interior components, and overhaul of propulsion control systems.
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PMO:
^Total Project Budget is the project budget being tracked by the RTA PMO Group Current Status
This project is progressing with procurements for materials and parts ongoing. Four cars have completed the rehab activities, and four cars are almost completed waiting on seats. Two more have just started work under this program. Additional cars will continue with the rehabilitation process.
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| + | Metra | UP North Line - South 11 Bridges | Track & Structure | Rail | $117,000,000 | $179,216,923 | Behind Schedule | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Project DetailsDescription
This project will provide for the reconstruction of bridges and retaining walls on the Union Pacific North Line, and Ravenswood Station.
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^Total Project Budget is the project budget being tracked by the RTA PMO Group Current Status
This project is in the design phase. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review process is ongoing. Design activities are at the 60% design mark. Benesch is continuing to review and respond to comments from Metra and UPRR as they come in. Once all comments are addressed, the design will continue to 90% design.
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| + | Metra | Program Management | Contingencies and Administration | Rail | $30,278,295 | $117,288,818 | On Schedule | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Project DetailsDescription
This project will fund the professional services of a consultant team to provide additional program management capacity made necessary by the extra funding from the state of Illinois. Funds programmed in 2022 will finance the second year of a five-year agreement with WSP Inc. for professional services under the Project Management Oversight (PMO) contract awarded by Metra’s Board in August 2020.
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^Total Project Budget is the project budget being tracked by the RTA PMO Group Current Status
The project management oversight contract was awarded to WSP. WSP and Metra staff are working through the process to support delivery of Metra’s Capital Program. Purchase Order Releases have been approved and work is in progress on various capital projects. Project Start-Up deliverables have been completed and approved as the quarter ending September 30, 2023.
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| + | CTA | Replace Buses - Options to Purchase Up To 500 of 1,030 | Rolling Stock | Bus | $38,878,238 | $107,050,060 | On Schedule | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Project DetailsDescription
The scope of this project will provide for the engineering, purchase, and inspection of fully accessible, air conditioned Clean Diesel buses; including a spare parts inventory. Engineering includes: development of specifications, pre-bid engineering meetings, onsite inspections of prospective bidders and/or their vendors’ plants, inspection of buses during production and acceptance of vehicles after delivery. 5 Year funds will continue funding stream for the Option(s) to replace up to 500 additional buses. Option(s) to the Base (100) contract order consist of up to an additional 500 buses that will initiate multiple orders to replace the 1000 Series New Flyer buses that have been in service since FY 2006.
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^Total Project Budget is the project budget being tracked by the RTA PMO Group Current Status
There are 100 complete buses and 100 buses in service from the base order. Option 1 has 91 buses completed and 66 buses in service. Training is ongoing for the proper function and maintenance of the buses. Inspections are still ongoing. The delivery of the last 9 buses from option 1 are expected to be delivered in October 2023. Option #2 has nine buses delivered and are being prepped to be put in service.
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| + | Metra | Zero-Emissions Trainsets | Rolling Stock | Rail | $0 | $78,604,137 | On Schedule | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Project DetailsDescription
Metra's investment in innovative, cleaner energy locomotives will be funded in part by this project which will procure multiple-unit car that produce zero mobile emissions. This multi-year, multi-phase project will acquire battery-electric trainsets. Metra will be among the first passenger rail transit agencies to purchase and operate self-propelled trainsets that will not require the construction and maintenance of wayside power. Metra estimates that replacing one old diesel locomotive with a zero-emission locomotive will reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions by more than 30 tons per year, thus significantly reducing the agency’s greenhouse gas footprint and greatly improving air quality in the region.
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^Total Project Budget is the project budget being tracked by the RTA PMO Group Current Status
Metra put the bid on the street in May 2022 and Metra continues to work on the procurement activities for this project.
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| + | Pace | Fixed Route Electric Buses | Rolling Stock | Bus | $0 | $78,009,128 | On Schedule | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Project DetailsDescription
Replace 52 diesel buses with electric buses including any associated equipment (cameras, destination signs, etc.) and services (Buy America audit and inspections).
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^Total Project Budget is the project budget being tracked by the RTA PMO Group Current Status
The contract was executed, and the vendor provided Pace with an updated production schedule due to previous supply chain issues and long lead time items. Deliveries of the buses were delayed and now expected to begin in Q1-2024. Pace executed a change order to purchase an additional two buses, bringing the total to 22 electric buses. Delivery of charging equipment began this quarter.
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| + | CTA | Purchase Rail Cars - 7000 Series (Base Order 400) | Rolling Stock | Rail | $61,950,715 | $77,284,911 | On Schedule | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Project DetailsDescription
Purchase Rail Cars - 7000' Series (Base Order 400) - Program funds will provide for the continued cash needs and obligation provisions as identified in the contract documents for the 7000' series rail car Base contract order of 400 cars.
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^Total Project Budget is the project budget being tracked by the RTA PMO Group Current Status
Status conferences continued with CRRC to address/track various items. Revenue service testing ended and production deliveries begun in this reporting period. CTA inspection personnel continue working in China and continue to conduct welded subassembly checks and production car body shell inspections for production cars. There are approximately 62 car body shells in various states of assembly. Final assembly continues on 74 cars in the US. CTA has accepted 48 of the cars thus far for revenue service.
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| + | Pace | River Division Electrification/Expansion | Support Facilities & Equipment | Bus | $0 | $66,827,687 | Behind Schedule | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Project DetailsDescription
This project is for architectural and engineering services that will provide pre-design services, geotechnical engineering, land surveys, traffic studies, existing facilities testing and evaluation and feasibility studies. It will also include design and construction administration, inspections and project oversight. Pace intends to expand and improve its existing River Division bus garage onto newly acquired property south of the existing garage. It will be designed to accommodate storage, servicing,maintenance, and associated program areas for an additional 75 buses, 26 paratransit and 6 nonrevenue vehicles in addition to other improvements to modernize the existing facility. Once the A/E design is completed, construction will follow.
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^Total Project Budget is the project budget being tracked by the RTA PMO Group Current Status
Pace has entered into a contract for Architectural and Engineering services for pre-design and design services. The contractor completed the pre-design activities, and final pre-design report was submitted to Pace. The adjacent property acquisition has been completed. Pace is undertaking an electrification study that will inform the design changes needed to make this facility compatible with an electric bus fleet. The design activities are currently on hold pending the recommendations from this study. Pace will need to revise the initial 30% design to incorporate future electrification components before activities resume with the designer.
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| + | Metra | Elevator Replacement | Stations & Passenger Facilities | Rail | $2,520,000 | $48,020,000 | Behind Schedule | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Project DetailsDescription
This project will replace or renovate elevators at various stations across the Metra system.
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^Total Project Budget is the project budget being tracked by the RTA PMO Group Current Status
Metra continued the preparation of the final design Architectural and Engineering task orders for elevator replacement. The Randolph St. elevator has NEPA issues to resolve. The two other elevators at Grand & Cicero are at 90% and proceeding to 100% design completion. A systemwide elevator inspection and assessment is in progress as well.
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