The Long-Awaited Plan to Extend the CTA Red Line
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The CTA hopes to start the next phase of its Red Line extension planning “very soon.”
Plans to extend the heavily used train line south of its current endpoint at 95th Street have been discussed as far back as the 1950s. But the project has been steadily moving from idea to reality in recent years. Nick Blumberg has details.
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The Long-Awaited Plan to Extend the CTA Red Line
Clip: 11/9/2020 | 5m 24sVideo has Closed Captions
Plans to extend the heavily used train line south of its current endpoint at 95th Street have been discussed as far back as the 1950s. But the project has been steadily moving from idea to reality in recent years. Nick Blumberg has details.
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