And the terrain tushes around and i totally get we have limited resources and constraint but its not great that the residents have to wait for another train to take you all the way you down to the bayview neighborhoods i understand the construction of the loops but what e, we do to provide Accurate Service thats one the Biggest Challenges in the southeast its connection to the Public Transit to the downtown neighborhood. No, i think youre absolutely right one of the first things that was on my desk was from supervisor cohen and the mayor talking about the two line service theirs obey a been a number i have things weve done all the transit signal priority that holds the Traffic Signals for the trains were not operating properly weve made additions and enhancements to the signal priorities in cases were preempting signals for the better flow of the trains and weve cut out a nov second detail anyone knows dollars painfully long waits in intersections so thats a fix theres a number of step
Illinois and 2120 third got its approval in 2011 because the old environmental approvals for the old mission loop we are old we refreshed those with the state and local in 2012 and file off 2013 weve finished the design you earlier this year and b will be going to the board to request approval the contract. The point being that while the recent set of approvals were refreshed based on newer information about the transportation and housing and land use situation that we have today, the original approval for the look like was approved in 1998 before those activities happened. The loop itself would do as i mentioned it will allow trains to turn to make a loop from third to 18 and 19 and illinois its part of the service plan for the central subway the environmental approvals limited use to daytimes and we expect those on 8 turnings per hour and more importantly it provides the flexibility for the t line the those folks that use our light rail know weve built an inflexibility unit so some o
Refreshed those with the state and local in 2012 and file off 2013 weve finished the design you earlier this year and b will be going to the board to request approval the contract. The point being that while the recent set of approvals were refreshed based on newer information about the transportation and housing and land use situation that we have today, the original approval for the look like was approved in 1998 before those activities happened. The loop itself would do as i mentioned it will allow trains to turn to make a loop from third to 18 and 19 and illinois its part of the service plan for the central subway the environmental approvals limited use to daytimes and we expect those on 8 turnings per hour and more importantly it provides the flexibility for the t line the those folks that use our light rail know weve built an inflexibility unit so some of the thinking in the 90s was to build in the flexibility so in terms of benefits the loop will significantly enable us to impro
To get back to you, we have sxeeven documentstion that that we provided to the federal transportation the number of Community Meetings i dont have that off the top of my head and unfortunately, the project manager is not available. No problem so the federal grant fund youve referenced in your presentation are those tied to a specific design or location. Yes. Specifically tied to this project. Any flexibility. Not i guess it depends on and you mean in terms of Design Elements within whats been cleared through this process and the grant submission within those bonds there is but in terms of not doing the project or changing the project we secured those funds with the specific scope of previously exhausted project in mind. In the previous project you talked about the benefits this will bring to the overall to system. Will but i think a lot of my comments are looking at the delays can you talk about that what would happen or not happen again having this loop and this kind of flexibility wi
Illinois and 2120 third got its approval in 2011 because the old environmental approvals for the old mission loop we are old we refreshed those with the state and local in 2012 and file off 2013 weve finished the design you earlier this year and b will be going to the board to request approval the contract. The point being that while the recent set of approvals were refreshed based on newer information about the transportation and housing and land use situation that we have today, the original approval for the look like was approved in 1998 before those activities happened. The loop itself would do as i mentioned it will allow trains to turn to make a loop from third to 18 and 19 and illinois its part of the service plan for the central subway the environmental approvals limited use to daytimes and we expect those on 8 turnings per hour and more importantly it provides the flexibility for the t line the those folks that use our light rail know weve built an inflexibility unit so some o