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8/9/2012
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Chicago's Metra breaks ground on Cicero Station rehab project
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On Tuesday, Illinois, local and Metra officials gathered to mark the beginning of a $4.5 million project to rehabilitate Metra’s Cicero Station on the BNSF Railway Co. line.
When the rehabilitation work is completed in about 18 months, Cicero riders will have a safe, modern and appealing rail station and a new, paved parking lot with 136 spaces and room for the possible addition of 100 more, Metra officials said in a prepared statement.
The new station and parking will also encourage new riders to commute from Cicero on Metra BNSF line trains, they said.
The project includes two new seven-car platforms with tactile warning strips, a new warming house on the outbound side, a headhouse and ramp enclosure with heated waiting area on the inbound side, a reconstructed ramp to meet Americans with Disabilities Act requirements, high-intensity overhead lighting, utility improvements, landscaping and a new parking lot.
The project is being funded through a state bond program.
The station was last rebuilt in the 1970s. Time and weather have deteriorated its stairways, ramps, tunnel and platform canopies.
When the rehabilitation work is completed in about 18 months, Cicero riders will have a safe, modern and appealing rail station and a new, paved parking lot with 136 spaces and room for the possible addition of 100 more, Metra officials said in a prepared statement.
The new station and parking will also encourage new riders to commute from Cicero on Metra BNSF line trains, they said.
The project includes two new seven-car platforms with tactile warning strips, a new warming house on the outbound side, a headhouse and ramp enclosure with heated waiting area on the inbound side, a reconstructed ramp to meet Americans with Disabilities Act requirements, high-intensity overhead lighting, utility improvements, landscaping and a new parking lot.
The project is being funded through a state bond program.
The station was last rebuilt in the 1970s. Time and weather have deteriorated its stairways, ramps, tunnel and platform canopies.
