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Rick Harnish Crossrail Annual 2 CrossRailChicago.org CrossRailChicago.org 3 Linking O’Hare Airport Union Station and McCormick Place 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 Springeld 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 Gurnee Rockford Belvidere Route Winnebago Boone 20 McHenry Lake Deerfield Ogle Hoffman Estates DeKalb Route Elgin Schaumburg 47 Kane Arlignton Heights O’Hare DuPage Annual Average Daily Trafc Counts Union Station 0 10 20 30 Miles McCormick Place 25,401– 88,900 Hyde Park 88,901–196,900 196,901– 336,100 Guide Existing Metra Lines Cook Gary Proposed Metra Lines Proposed HSR Homewood Proposed Stops Metra Tax District Kendall Total Employment University Park By Zip Code No Data South Suburban Airport Under 2500 2500 - 12500 Will 12500 - 25000 Kankakee Bourbonnais Grundy 25000 - 52500 Kankakee To Champaign 8 CrossRailChicago.org CrossRailChicago.org 9 LaSalle Livingston Ford Iroquois Connecting the Megaregion Title? 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 Deereld 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 Homewood Champaign Lafayette Governors State Univeristy University Park Indianapolis South Suburban Springeld Airport Decatur Mattoon Bourbonnais Carlinville Kankakee Efngham Alton St. Louis Centralia Gilman Du Quoin Carbondale Rantoul University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana Champaign 10 CrossRailChicago.org CrossRailChicago.org 11 Existing service O’Hare O’Hare Airport Express/HSR Metra Traditional Airport Express/HSR Metra City Metra Express River Grove Amtrak Metra City River Grove NICTD Amtrak Transfer Station NICTD Non-transfer Station Transfer Station Non-transfer Station Millenium Park Ashland Ave. Van Buren St. Millenium Park Union Station Van Buren St. McCormick Place Cermak McCormick Place Two markets served by same train Hourly Metra Suburban trains run express • Metra Suburban slowed by local stops Metra City every 15 minutes • Metra City not frequent enough Direct service across downtown Poor connections downtown Hyde Park Premiun Heathrow Express-type service Hyde Park Airport market unserved Fast access for Amtrak and HSR Amtrak has poor access Altgeld Gardens Blue Island Only one through platform Long-term Adamss Adams Jackson Jackson r e r e iv R n iv l o R n o o nt g t o ana li a n g l c C C li a i c h C i C h ana C C Blue line connection Van Buren Van Buren Pedestrian Circulation& Lobbies Pedestrian Circulation& Lobbies Existing Platforms Passenger Improved Passenger Freight Vertical Circulation Vertical Circulation New Vertical Circulation New Vertical Circulation Amtrak Waiting Area Amtrak Waiting Area Metra Waiting Area Metra Waiting Area Ticketing Ticketing Retail/Food Retail/Food Building Cores Building Cores Train Operations Train Operations Congress Congress Ofce Space Ofce Space Vacant Vacant Chicago Union Station 300 South Riverside Station Chicago Union Station N N Proposed Long Term 222 South Riverside Station Concourse Level Plan Existing Concourse Level Plan 14 CrossRailChicago.org CrossRailChicago.org 15 Renewed Union Station Plans 16th Street Connector Ogilvie Millenium Transportation Park Center Station Union Station LaSalle St. Van Buren Station St. Station Through Platforms Built 11th St. Station 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 16 CrossRailChicago.org CrossRailChicago.org 17 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 Pacic 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 Electrication New A-2 Flyover Added Throughout Union Station Improvements Alternate Express Route McCormick Place 16th Street Connector Hyde Park Track and electrication 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
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