Pulse Milwaukee Line Service Begins 2017 Milwaukee Line

Get involved now & stay informed! COMING SOON: • Please visit Pace’s Pulse website at PaceBus.com/Pulse Pace’s Newest Transit Service to stay updated on the Pulse program and the Pulse Milwaukee Pulse, a brand-new service from Pace, provides frequent, fast and reliable Line. Notices of upcoming public meetings will be posted to the travel. Pulse takes bus transit to the next level by providing passengers with News and Events section. faster service, shorter wait times, and enhanced station amenities. • Sign up for the project mailing list by filling out the public comment form posted to the Get Involved section. PULSE SERVICE WILL PROVIDE: > Enhanced station > High frequency, and passenger limited stop service, amenities, including with stations placed heated shelters, with approximately every FEBRUARY 2015 • ISSUE 1 lighting and seating; half mile near-level boarding platforms; > Improved travel time real-time bus arrival information and reliability, thanks signs; transit route and vicinity maps; to Transit Signal and landscaping Priority (TSP) Highly visible >  As part of Pace’s “family of services”, and accessible Pulse will be integrated with the 550 W. Algonquin Road Better service stations that feature Arlington Heights, IL 60005-4412 fixed route network, express bus through Transit Signal Pulse-branded route routes, and community-based PaceBus.com/Pulse markers/kiosks, Priority (TSP) transit services. customized for each TSP allows buses that community along the route are running behind schedule to catch up by shortening > Buses with Wi-Fi, red lights and extending USB charging ports, green lights by a few seconds and digital at selected intersections to reduce the time buses spend information signs stopped. The system works > Improved bicyclist/ automatically to improve on- pedestrian time performance for buses with virtually no significant connectivity impact on vehicular traffic. to transit service TSP will improve travel times and reliability, providing better service to customers while lowering Pace’s operating costs.

PaceBus.com/Pulse | Pulse Milwaukee Line | PAGE 1 CHECK OUT PULSE’S FIRST SERVICE: Pulse Milwaukee Line Providing FAST, FREQUENT, Service Begins in 2017 RELIABLE TRANSIT SERVICE Milwaukee Line is the goal of this program. The first Pulse line will operate along ROUTE 270 Milwaukee Avenue, between Golf Mill Shopping WHERE WE ARE NOW: Golf Rd Center and the Jefferson Park Transit Center. Golf Mill Shopping Center Technical studies are currently underway to address any environmental The Pulse Milwaukee Line is 7 miles long and factors and to refine service, operations, and station area plans. MORTON will serve the Village of Niles and the City Church St GROVE of . In addition to the two terminal Coordination and collaboration with the Village of Niles, local Chicago Ballard Rd Greenwood Ave Aldermen, the Chicago Department of Transportation, the Illinois Dempster St Dempster St PACE and CTA stations, eight pairs of intermediate stations Local Bus Routes are planned at major intersections along Department of Transportation, the Federal Transit Administration,

Main St the route. and the Chicago Transit Authority has been ongoing and will continue Milwaukee Ave Main St throughout the planning and development of the Pulse service. Monroe St Oakton St/Oak Mill Mall • Pulse will operate at 10-minute Oakton St intervals during peak weekday periods, Public and community outreach efforts are underway to educate SKOKIE and at 15-minute intervals during Northwest Hwy Harlem Ave/Howard St stakeholders about the Pulse Milwaukee Line, and encourage their Howard St off-peak periods and weekends. NILES participation throughout the study and development process. A stakeholder Touhy Ave • Late night service will operate at is anyone who could be affected by this service and has a stake in the final Touhy Ave 30-minute intervals. design and operation of the service, including municipal officials, public • Service will run for up to 19 hours agencies, community leaders and groups, businesses, area residents, PARK MILWAUKEE LINE each weekday. property owners, and transit users. RIDGE Imlay St Haft St/Highland Ave Devon Ave Public involvement efforts will include the following: This is only the Metra UP Northwest Line The Pulse Milwaukee Line will be coordinated —— Public meetings —— Direct mail of fact sheets beginning of with existing Pace routes serving the —— One-on-one stakeholder meetings —— Corridor Advisory Group

Nagle Ave Austin Ave/Ardmore Ave

Harlem Ave Ave Harlem corridor. Pace Route 270 (Milwaukee Avenue) —— Website: PaceBus.com/Pulse —— Email blasts Pace’s enhanced Elston Ave will continue to operate at reduced service frequencies, offering local service to existing —— Online comment form CTA Blue Line transit plans Central Ave bus stops. Connections to the Niles Free Bus, Foster Ave other Pace and CTA fixed route bus routes, WHERE WE ARE HEADED: as well as the CTA Blue Line and Metra Pace has identified a 24-line Austin Ave Once the environmental and technical studies have been completed, the final CHICAGO Jefferson Park Transit Center UP-Northwest Line provide passengers Pulse network with 7 priority Lawrence Ave design of the Pulse Milwaukee Line stations will be prepared. Construction with a wide range of local and regional routes to be implemented over travel options. of passenger facilities will begin in 2016 and the Milwaukee Line will be the next 10 years: Central Ave Ave Central operational in 2017. • Milwaukee Avenue • • PROJECT TIMELINE • Cermak Road • Pulse Milwaukee Line • •  2014 2015 2015-2016 2016 2017 Planning Environmental Pulse Over the long term, the study review Design Construction in service phased implementation of the Pulse network STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT & AGENCY INPUT will improve mobility and travel choices • Initial design • Stakeholder • Facilitate & throughout Pace’s PUBLIC MEETING concepts & station outreach incorporate service area. locations • Environmental stakeholder input • Data collection & engineering • Final design • Stakeholder outreach analysis concepts

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