A public meeting was also held on Monday night.CTA's train system is known as the 'L' (a now-official name originally short for 'elevated'). Morse Ave., and Thursday at the Fleetwood-Jourdain Center, 1655 Foster St. Meetings are also scheduled at the same time Wednesday at New Field Primary School, 1707 W.

The Purple Line comes in sixth, with about 38,000 riders per day, but it saw a 1.7 increase in 2010 compared with 2009.Ī public meeting on the Red and Purple Line modernization plan is set for 6 p.m. The Red Line is the city's busiest rail line, having seen an average weekday ridership of nearly 250,000 people a day last year. Last year, CBS 2 reported that at the Red Line viaduct over Hollywood Avenue, pillars were decaying and forcing the CTA to put in a costly shoring system. Most of the line runs on a concrete embankment structure rather than the steel trestles that compose most of the 'L,' and much of that structure is in poor shape. The tracks and stations on the north Red and Purple Line corridor date from the 1920s, and by the CTA's own admission, most of the stations are in 'deteriorate condition, have very narrow platforms and are not accessible.' The CTA is in the process of applying for federal funding to update the lines. He also said that closing the Jarvis station 'would be a terrible disservice' to the coffee shops, restaurants and other businesses that operate near the Jarvis station and rely on CTA commuters to stay open. 'And every single time, the community rises up in anger and the CTA backs down, so we're going to do it again.' 'Every 10 to 20 years, the CTA comes up with one of these hare-brained schemes to close the Jarvis station,' Moore added. It means I can be more productive,' Cooper said. 'It just means I can get to class on time. Although he acknowledged the Howard station is still close to him, using that station is sometimes inconvenient for him, so he wants the Jarvis station to stay open. I think that's a terrible disservice to the neighborhood.'ĭePaul University student Derrick Cooper said he uses the Jarvis station every day. Going to Howard, I got to pay to park.'įellow CTA rider Ellen Herdeck said, 'so many people use it. Going to Morse, it's a lot tougher to park there. I'd prefer to come here where I've been coming for 20 years, almost now. Loyola University student Travis Boewadt said he uses the Jarvis stop a couple times a week to get to school. The statement said that CTA wants to prioritize its spending 'for locations with high ridership and those in need of enhanced ADA accessibility.' The statement said that no plan is being proposed at this time and that CTA merely seeks to elicit input from riders and community residents to determine the potential impacts and issues.īut CTA is arguing for one of the options that would eliminate stations and possibly express service, saying, 'Under such a scenario, station improvements could be focused on fewer locations, allowing for ore effective use of limited funds.' 'What the CTA is doing is gathering community input on a range of options that were developed based on community meetings held in 2009.' 'It would be misleading to say that the CTA is proposing closing stations,' a spokesperson said in a statement. Two of them instead merely call for transfer stations between the Red and Purple lines at Loyola and Wilson.Ī different scenario would replace the existing four tracks with three tracks, which would eliminate reverse-direction Purple Line Express trains.ĬTA said in a statement that it is not taking steps to close stations, at least yet.

The subway plan also calls for the elimination of the Jarvis stop, as well as the South Boulevard and Foster Purple Line stops.īut three of the plans do not call for eliminating any stops at all. Under the subway plan, the commuter would have to walk two and a half blocks north to Winona Street or three blocks south to Wilson Avenue to catch the Red Line. For example, a commuter living on Ainslie Street in the Uptown neighborhood may now walk one block north to the Argyle stop or south to the Lawrence stop. Under that plan, the Argyle, Lawrence, Berwyn, Thorndale and Granville stops would vanish, in some instances without a new entrance in close proximity to replace them.

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