CHICAGO, IL–(ENEWSPF)–June 25, 2012. The CTA will be able to move forward on major upgrades to one of the busiest stations in Chicago’s transit system as a result of an infusion of $20 million in critical federal funding to the 95th Street Terminal Improvement Project, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, Congressman Bobby Rush, Governor Pat Quinn and Federal Transit Administration Administrator Peter Rogoff announced Monday. The intermodal project will reduce pedestrian and bus congestion, cut travel times, improve accessibility, and create jobs on the South Side of the city. The federal Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant program is the most competitive transportation grant program in the nation, with more than 700 applications totaling more than $10 billion competing for the $500 million that was available.
