Forest Park: Phase 2 - Kedzie to Pulaski Track Improvements

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The degree to which a project improves regional access to the region’s key destinations. Including jobs, retail, healthcare, recreation, and education.

The project improvements to existing assets to make them partially or fully accessible. Including station/stop and area improvements, vehicle accessibility, and accessible communications.

The project impact to ratings from the FTA Transit Economic Requirements Model (TERM).

The project’s minor or major benefits to riders and what proportion of the agency’s riders will benefit from it.

The project impact on overall capacity, reflecting current and planned levels of utilization.

The project impact on reductions or offsets to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated from transit operations.

Project impacts on land use and development, construction, and long-term jobs.

The distribution of project benefits to location(s) identified under the USDOT Justice40 Program.

The project impact to maintenance or improvement of exposure to risk for riders/employees and the project impact to security enhancement.

The project impact on operating costs.

The project impact to maintenance or improvement of exposure to risk for riders/employees and the project impact to security enhancement.

Project impact on maintenance or improvement of service speed and reliability, considering both direct and indirect impacts.

If required, whether or not the project complies with federal, state, local, or other regulatory mandates.

The project impact to climate benefits, such as a reduction in emissions, generated from mode shift to transit and away from private auto-use.

The Project impact to average vehicle ages, compared with Service board benchmarks to prioritize replacing vehicles that are beyond their useful life.

Evaluation Metric Measure
Access to Key Destinations ? Maintains Access to Key Destinations
Accessibility Improvement(s) ? Project is not related to accessibility
Asset Condition (FTA TERM Rating) ? Asset(s) rated below 2
Benefit to Riders ? Helps to maintain current benefits to riders
Capacity Benefit and Need ? Project increases capacity of transit operations not near capacity
Climate Agency Operating Impacts ? No reduction in emission
Economic Impact ? Small impact on economic development
Equity Based on Residential Geography ? Score 0-2 in Justice40 metric 'Sum of Disadvantage Indicators'
Impact on Customer and Employee Safety ? Project maintains current safety levels
Impact on Operating Cost ? Decrease
Impact on System Security ? Project does not impact security
Impact to Service Speed/Reliability ? Moderately improves current speed/reliability
Regulatory Requirements ? No
Ridership/Mode Shift Impacts ? Maintains assets necessary for transit ridership
Vehicle Useful Life ? Asset is not a vehicle with a useful life

Project Description

funding to complete track improvements on the Blue Line between Kedzie Avenue and the Pulaski Station located within the North Lawndale, East Garfield and West Garfield Communities within the City of Chicago. This plan will advance CTA’s commitment to improving the aging track on the Blue Line that is beyond its useful life.The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) Forest Park Branch Kedzie Avenue to Pulaski Road Track Improvements project is part of a larger program to reconstruct the Forest Park Branch of CTA’s rail rapid transit system to restore service reliability and speed, provide greater environmental resilience, and enhance the overall transit experience for historically disadvantaged communities on the west side of Chicago