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MAYOR EMANUEL’S RECORD ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE Chicago’s rise was fueled by its place at the center of the nation’s transportation system – from its role as a nexus for highways and railways, to its proximity to Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River, to the role of its airports as hubs for business and personal travel. Mayor Emanuel believes that the City’s future depends on modern infrastructure. Through initiatives like Building a New Chicago, Retrofit Chicago, CTA modernization, the Broadband Challenge the Emanuel Administration will ensure that Chicago will remain at the center of the global economy. Today, Chicago’s transportation systems move millions of people and billions of dollars of freight annually. Chicagoans make more than 8.8 million trips a day on our roads, rails, bridges and trails. More than 39 million visitors a year walk our sidewalks, and drive and bike on our streets. The substantial investments that we make in our transportation network will ensure sustainable and reliable transport not only for the region, but the national economy as well. Whether it is renewing our parks or repairing our pipes, repaving our roads or rebuilding our rails, retrofitting our buildings or revitalizing our bridges, the City’s plans are comprehensive because our needs are comprehensive -- because no city in America relies on its infrastructure more than Chicago. While our infrastructure challenges are not unique, our resolve and determination to see them through is. In addition, today’s companies demand new forms of infrastructure. The administration has invested in modern transportation options, like improved public transit, protected bike lanes, and new bike sharing opportunities. And he has taken the fight to Washington DC and Springfield to fight for more transportation funding. BRINGING CHICAGO’S INFRASTRUCTURE INTO THE 21ST CENTURY Launched “Building a New Chicago” to Make a Historic Investment in Infrastructure Building a New Chicago is a $7 billion infrastructure program, and one of the largest investments in infrastructure in the City’s history. Announced in 2012, the 3-year program has touched nearly every aspect of the city’s infrastructure network and will create and support more than 30,000 jobs. It has also involved an unprecedented level of coordination between City Hall, multiple city departments and sister agencies, private sector utilities, and the public. By the end of Mayor Emanuel’s first term in office, nearly a quarter of Chicago’s 4,600 miles of streets will have been resurfaced. The Department of Transportation (CDOT), the Department of Water Management (DWM), private contractors and utilities will have resurfaced more than 1,000 miles of streets of streets from 2011 through 2014 (155 miles in 2011; 269 miles in 2012; 290 miles in 2013; and 346 miles in 2014). Building a New Chicago - By the Numbers: Miles of Streets Resurfaced Per Year During Mayor's First Term 400 350 300 346 290 250 269 200 Miles of Streets 150 155 Resurfaced 100 50 0 2011 2012 2013 2014 (expected) Since 2011, the Department of Water Management has installed 177 miles of new water mains and 46 miles of new sewers. In addition, DWM has lined 140 miles of sewers and 47,701 catch basins, as well as installed more than 4,600 water valves and 5,000 new fire hydrants. In 2014, CDOT plans to repave nearly 100 miles of arterial streets, 90 miles of residential streets and five miles of alleys. Gas, electric and telecommunication utilities are expected to repave 20 miles of streets as part of their infrastructure work. In addition, since Mayor Emanuel took office, CDOT has either commenced or completed nearly $300 million worth of city, state and federally funded bridge construction projects, including a $50 million project to reconstruct Wells Bridge. By the Numbers: Building a New Chicago 70.7 Average miles per year of sewer, water main, and sewer lining replacements in 5 years prior to Building a New Chicago initiative 1,015 Total miles of street resurfacing, water main, sewer main, sewer lining, and street light replacements completed 2011-2014. $1.1B Department of Water Management (DWM) investments in capital improvements 2011- 2013, with an average of $382M invested per year from 2011- 2013 compared to $222.5M per year in 2009-2010 609.2 Miles of arterial and residential resurfacing 2011-2014, compared to 189.91 in the two years prior 104.6 Miles of bike lanes constructed from 2011-2014, including 83 miles of protected, compared to 8 miles of bike lanes constructed 2009-2010 Investing in CTA Repairs and Renovations to Ensure a Clean, Efficient Transit System A world-class transit system is a key component of our city’s economic plan. Since the Mayor took office, the CTA has announced $4 billion in transit improvements, amounting to one of the largest in the history of the CTA. In addition to the recently completed $425 million Red Line South reconstruction, the CTA in 2014 will begin building a new terminal at 95th Street Red Line ($240 million), rebuilding the Wilson station on the Red Line ($203 million), and working with CDOT to build a new Cermak-McCormick Place elevated Green Line station ($50 million) by the end of 2014. Modernizing the Red Line Mayor Emanuel has announced a number of projects to modernize and extend the Red Line, CTA’s busiest rail line and the backbone of the CTA’s rail system, since 2011. With a significant portion of the Red Line built more than a century ago, the improvements address the current need to expand capacity by building new infrastructure to accommodate growing ridership. Red Line modernization projects under Mayor Emanuel include: Successful $425 million replacement of the Red Line South railroad in 2013, as well as station rehabilitations; created more than 1,500 jobs. $86 million renewal and rehabilitation of seven far north side stations in 2012. $240 million new 95th Street Terminal, work beginning in late summer. $203 million Wilson station reconstruction and track and signal replacement, major construction to begin this fall. $1.7 billion Phase One of the Red and Purple Modernization program to rebuild the Red and Purple Lines from Belmont to Linden, including rebuilding sections of deteriorated tracks, replacing or repairing aging stations, and installing new power systems on the Red Line and portions of the Purple Line. The first phase will rebuild four stations -- Lawrence, Argyle, Bryn Mawr and Berwyn and all tracks and structures; and will build a bypass near Belmont station to alleviate a bottleneck where Brown Line tracks intersect with Red and Purple tracks, which curb the CTA’s ability to add service to ease crowding and accommodate future growth. Station reconstruction includes $73.6 million rehabilitation of the Grand Avenue Red Line stop and an $86.6 million renovation Clark and Division Red Line stop. $10 million renovation of Harrison station Overhauling the Blue Line O’Hare branch Mayor Emanuel and Governor Quinn in December 2013 announced a comprehensive improvement plan for the CTA’s Blue Line O’Hare Branch— an overhaul that will provide faster travel times and updated stations along a critical link between downtown and one of the world’s busiest airports, while creating more than 1,300 jobs. The $492 million plan, called Your New Blue, includes several track and station improvement projects along a 12.5-mile stretch of the Blue Line O’Hare Branch and is the largest investment in that branch since the branch was extended to O’Hare in 1983-84. Building and Refurbishing CTA Stations across the City Reconstructing the 95th Street Red Line Station: A $240 million reconstruction project of the 95th Street Red Line station, slated to begin in fall of 2014, will create not only a brand-new, reconfigured station to serve the CTA’s busiest rail line, but also a facility that will serve as a community focal point and an anchor for economic opportunity on Chicago’s South Side. Building the First New CTA Stations in 18 years: During Mayor Emanuel’s first term, the CTA has opened a new Pink and Green Line station at Morgan, broken ground on a new $50 million Cermak Green Line station, and released the final renderings for a new $75 million “Gateway to Millennium Park” Station at Washington-Wabash set to begin construction in 2014. Rehabbing and refurbishing CTA stations across the city: CTA completed a $25 million station renewal in 2012 of more than 100 stations across the CTA’s rail system, which included a range of improvements from better lighting and new paint and signs to platform repairs and waterproofing. Modernizing our Bus and Rail Fleets Under a $493 million bus modernization plan, CTA will have a clean, modern and more environmentally-friendly bus fleet with reduced increased capacity over the next few years. That plan includes the purchase of up to 550 new buses and the overhaul of more than 1,000 buses, which will improve the comfort and reliability of bus service for customers while lowering CTA’s annual bus maintenance costs. CTA has awarded two contracts valued at $185 million for the mid-life overhaul of roughly 60 percent of the existing fleet -- 1,029 buses purchased between 2006 and 2007. The CTA also continues modernization of its rail fleet, adding more than 400 of the newest generation 5000-series rail cars of a planned 714 new cars, and will continue to take delivery of those through the end of 2015. These rail cars are currently in service on the Pink and Green Lines and are currently being added to the Red, Purple and Yellow Lines, replacing cars that were manufactured nearly 40 years ago.

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