2 CrossRailChicago.org CrossRailChicago.org 3 Linking O’Hare Airport

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4 CrossRailChicago.org CrossRailChicago.org 5 Warsaw Abu Dhabi Amsterdam Saint Paul Zurich Amman Detroit Toronto Vienna Atlanta Beijing Rochester (future) Tokyo Stockholm Belize City Madison (future) Shanghai Berlin Battle Creek Seoul Brussels Omaha Milwaukee Pittsburgh Des Moines (future) Seattle Charlotte Cleveland Sao Paulo Moline (future) Iowa City (future) Toledo Copenhagen San Francisco Galesburg Union South Bend Paris O’Hare CROSSRAILCHICAGO 20 MINUTES Station New York Normal DC Lafayette Spring eld Munich Delhi 5 MIN. St. Louis Indianapolis Montreal DFW Kansas City Cincinnati Doha Champaign Miami Mexico City Dubai Carbondale Dublin McCormick Madrid Los Place Angeles Liberia Frankfurt Dusseldorf London Honolulu Hong Kong Istanbul Memphis 155 domestic destinations 269 Amtrak destinations 58 international destinations 163 Metra destinations

Rental Regional Pace CTA CTA CTA National Regional 6 CrossRailChicago.org CrossRailChicago.org 7 To Madison To Milwaukee

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25,401– 88,900 Hyde Park 88,901–196,900 196,901– 336,100 Guide

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Marquette University Milwaukee UW Milwaukee Mitchell Field

Green Bay Amtrak Airport

Proposed Amtrak Regional Bus LaCrosse Amtrak Stations Racine Airport + Regional Bus

Flint Grand Rapids Madison Mitchell Field Lansing

Gurnee Dubuque Rockford Belvidere Kalamazoo Ann Arbor Route 20 Deer eld Cedar Rapids Rockford O’Hare Route Elgin Schaumburg 47 Northwestern University South Bend Hoffman Iowa City Estates Arlignton Loyola University Chicago Quad Cities Heights O’Hare DePaul University Roosevelt University Toledo Union Station University of Illinois at Chicago McCormick Place University of Chicago Hyde Park Burlington Michigan City Peoria South Bend Gary Notre Dame University Bloomington

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New New Ramp to 16th Street St. Charles Airline Flyover

McCormick Place PROPOSED STATION Station Midwest High Speed Rail Association 21st St. Bridge © 2015 Solomon Cordwell Buenz INTERIOR VIEW Reinvening TRavel. ReinvenTing The MidwesT.

21st Street Bridge Airline Bridge

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PROPOSED STATION Midwest High Speed Rail Association © 2015 Solomon Cordwell Buenz INTERIOR VIEW Reinvening TRavel. ReinvenTing The MidwesT. Mannheim Road Existing Zemke Blvd Metra Station

Kiss-n-Fly/ Cellphone Potential Lot Metra Garage Station Structure ATS Station/ Bus Plaza

CN/Metra Railline Rental Car Return

ATS Extention

Current ATS Station

THE MIDWEST HIGH SPEED RAIL ASSOCIATION’S VISION FOR A NEW RAILROAD STATION AT O’HARE.

Metra Long- term Amtrak Park

Rental High- Cars speed ORD Rail

Kiss -n- Pace Fly Bus Hotel Shuttles Regional Bus

18 CrossRailChicago.org CrossRailChicago.org 19 Unlike CTA, Metra’s right-of-way Core Projects has room for additional tracks

Union Paci c CN METRA St. Charles Airline CSX IDOT/Toll Road New O’Hare Transit Center Amtrak

Phase Two Tunnels Separate 13 Road Crossings Grand Ave. A-5 Flyover B-12 New Track and Metra’s Milwaukee West Line Electri cation New A-2 Flyover Added Throughout Union Station Improvements Alternate Express Route McCormick Place 16th Street Connector Hyde Park

Track and electri cation upgrades for faster speeds Kensington

Metra’s Electric District

20 CrossRailChicago.org CrossRailChicago.orgUniversity 21 Extension to South Park Suburban Airport site

South Suburban Airport

To Champaign Toronto’s Airport Express train tested on Rock Island

Metra’s Electric District

Talgo 730 Hybrid Train

22 CrossRailChicago.org CrossRailChicago.org 23 Order of Magnitude Capital Costs Estimated Annual Ridership

CrossRail is very phaseable because it is a collection of many projects which have independent utility. We have grouped the projects by segment, though there are individual projects within each segment as well. Union Station expansion, a new station at O’Hare, the A-2 Flyover and the 16th Street Connector are the most urgent. Past studies have examined each of the proposed segments separately, which fails to provide a clear picture of the power of a coordinated system. Together, these projects will generate more ridership, revenue and benefits than any of them can yield independently.

O’Hare Conrac Station $25,000,000 Using existing studies, the Midwest High Speed Rail Association developed ridership estimates to demonstrate the addi- tive effect of each segment. • (placeholder)

O’Hare – B12 $125,000,000 Low Estimate High Estimate • Purchase 5 miles of ROW • Install electrification • Construct 2 new mainline tracks • Separate 1 highway crossing I-90 Corridor Loop–O’Hare: 1,680,000 1,920,000 • Install Positive train control • Replace 3 stations O’Hare–Elgin: 3,304,000 4,704,000 B12 – A2 $790,000,000 Rockford extension: 826,000 1,529,000 • Reconstruct existing mainline tracks and add fourth • Replace 79 bridges I-90 Corridor Total: 5,810,000 8,153,000 main

• Install Positive train control • Reconstruct 8 stations I-57 Corridor • Install electrification • A-5 Flyover Metra Electric improvements: 10,000,000 11,000,000 • Separate 13 highway crossings Champaign extension: 1,566,000 2,285,000 A2 Flyover — Critical project, impacts 7 Metra routes $250,000,000 I-57 Corridor Total: 11,566,000 13,285,000 A2 through Union Station $260,000,000 16th Street Connector • Reconstruct existing mainline tracks and add fourth • Install Positive train control Crosstown commuter rail: 1,461,000 1,956,000 main • Install electrification O’Hare–Champaign: 154,000 212,000 • Build though platforms • Separate 1 highway crossing Rockford–Champaign: 19,000 40,000 16th Street Connector — Needed for St. Louis 110 project $325,000,000 16th Street Connector Total: 1,634,000 2,208,000 • New connection to St. Charles Airline • Install electrification Core Ridership 19,010,000 23,646,000 • 16th Street Flyover • Replace 16 bridges • Install Positive train control Other Ridership Impacts McCormick Place/Michael Reese Station complex $50,000,000 Sixteen exisitng Amtrak and Metra routes would see direct impact from CrossRail Chicago. • (placeholder) Amtrak Carbondale McCormick Place — Kensington $675,000,000 Amtrak St. Louis Amtrak Milwaukee • Reconstruct existing mainline tracks • Replace electrification Amtrak Detroit • Replace signaling • Replace 16 stations Milwaukee District North Line 7,040,845 South Chicago Branch — Assumed no needed improvements Milwaukee District West Line 6,830,685 Hegewisch Branch $15,000,000 North Central Line 1,684,587 South Shore • Construct 1 new station at Altgeld Gardens • Add pocket track at Hegewisch station Union Pacific North Blue Island Branch $15,000,000 Union Pacific Northwest • (placeholder) Union Pacific West Total $2,530,000,000 Sources:

Express Airport Train Service Business Plan, September 2006. (These estimates were conducted by MHSRA staff for discussion purposes only Rolling Stock and fare collection systems STAR Line Alternative Analysis, June 2012. assumed to be financed by operators.) Kankakee County Commuter Rail Feasibility Study, January 2005. 24 CrossRailChicago.org Chicago to St. Louis 220 mph High Speed Rail Alternative Corridor Study, September 2010. CrossRailChicago.org 25 Northern Illinois Commuter Rail Initiative Commuter Rail Feasibility Study, November 2004 Potential PPP Structure

Revenue Sources City Benefits

Development Rights CrossRail Chicago Increased real Increased estate taxes Obtains financing Passenger fares Increased tourism Acquires needed RR Assets More tradeshows Track access fees Manages construction Southside THE HISTORIC DENVER UNION STATION WAS REOPENED IN JULY 2014 USING A SUCCESSFUL PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP (PPP). THE STATION redevelopment AND THE SURROUNDING 19.5 ACRES WILL SOON BE THE HUB OF DENVER’S NEW FASTRACKS COMMUTER RAIL NETWORK AS WELL AS ITS RE- Contracts for infrastruc- GIONAL AND EXPRESS BUS NETWORKS. Airport Express ture operation and Improved access operating surplus maintenance to jobs Relevant Nationwide Cases Develops approved New Southside State funds planned development transit service • All Aboard Florida: New Miami – Orlando passenger route financed with real estate develop- ment and passenger fares. Federal funds • Denver Eagle P3: Precedent setting P3 financing 23 mile airport line. • Detroit M1: Non-profit organization formed in 2007 to lead design, construction and operation of 3.3 mile circulating streetcar. • Portland TriMet Airport Max: Real Estate development financed more than 40% of 5.5 mile light rail extension to airport. • Toronto Union Pearson Express: Metrolinx, Toronto’s regional transit authority, created a subsidiary to construct and operate a 23-mile long airport train using tracks shared by GO commut- er trains and freight trains.

Upcoming funding opportunities to prepare for: State capital bill Federal transportation bill

26 CrossRailChicago.org CrossRailChicago.org 27 Toronto

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Regional 110–125 mph Regional 90–125 mph PassengerPassengerPassengerPassenger Freight Freight With a few exceptions, separate tracks will be needed above 90-mph. Highways need to pass above or below the tracks when trains are travelingRegional aboveRegional 110 11 0mph. –125 110–125 mph mph Passenger Passenger Freight Regional 110–125 mph

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Core Express 125–250 mph Railway Type PassengerPassengerPassengerPassenger Freight Freight Core Express 2004 Blended Core Express 125 mph and above Core CoreExpress Express 125 –250 125–250 mph mph Passenger Passenger Freight Core Express 2010 Under Development Achieving 3-hour or better travel times between major cities will require average train speeds over 150Core Express 125–250 mph Core Express 2015 mph. That means Midwestern states will need to construct new tracks dedicated to lightweight, electri- Core Express 2017 cally-powered trains without any level highway crossings.

34 CrossRailChicago.org CrossRailChicago.org 35 43 Million within 3 Hours of Chicago

Major Land Development Sites $13.8 billion additional sales in Chicago every year

Minneapolis-St. Paul

Madison Milwaukee Lansing

Detroit O’Hare Chicago Toledo Cleveland Omaha Des Moines

Pittsburgh

Spring eld Indianapolis Columbus

Cincinnati Kansas City

St. Louis Jefferson City Travel Time from Chicago

Core Express 125 mph+ 1 hours Regional 90–125 mph 2 hours 3 hours Amtrak/Conventional Rail 4 hour Existing Amtrak

Midwest Annual Savings: 760 million gallons of gas $3 billion travel time cost

3.3 million tons of CO2e 36 CrossRailChicago.org CrossRailChicago.org 37 38 CrossRailChicago.org