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Article: Chicago revives an ailing 'L.' (the 100-year-old Green Line elevated train)(Cities in Transit)
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- Railway Age
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
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Closed 30 months for a $360 million rehab, the century-old Green Line is back in business, good for another 40 years. CTA's task now is to win riders back.
When the city of Chicago and the Chicago Transit Authority announced that the venerable Lake Street and Jackson Park-Englewood elevated--the Green Line--would be shut down in 1994 for a complete renovation, some residents of the areas served had suspicions.
What the city and the CTA had in mind, they suspected, wasn't renovation but abandonment. Both lines serve impoverished sections of the city, on the West and South Sides. The Lake Street line parallels the much-newer Congress (Blue) line, which runs in ...