Project Management Oversight (PMO) Capital Projects

These projects consist of the replacement of cross ties, switch ties and ballast. In order to maintain proper track gauge and surface, it is necessary to replace ties and ballast periodically. This improves the riding quality of the trains and reduces the incidence of slow orders, which adversely affect adherence to train schedules. These projects represent part of an ongoing program to replace ties and ballast throughout the Rock Island District.

This project will Provide for AC breaker replacement at Kedvale, Edmunds and Sacramento substations. This will also include the replacement of oil (non?PCB) transformer and rectifiers along with roof and doors replacement at the Kedvale and Sacramento substations.

Transit Signal Priority Integration - TSP implementation along priority corridors as part of the Regional Transit Signal Priority Implementation Program. Pace plans to deploy TSP along nine additional corridors at approximately 300 signalized intersections. The corridors include: 159th Street, Sibley Boulevard/147th Street, Roosevelt Road, Cicero Avenue, 95th Street, Grand Avenue (Lake County), Cermak Road, I-90 Transit Corridor Access Intersections and Halsted Street. This form represents the portion of the project funded with PAYGO in 2024. Years 2021-2023 of TSP related projects are funded with ICE funds as shown in Exhibit I.

This project, a Public-Private Partnership between Metra and the Union Pacific Railroad, will construct two new segments of third mainline track on the Union Pacific West Line. One of the segments will be between the Vale Interlocking at milepost 10.0 in River Forest and the 25th Avenue Interlocking at milepost 11.8 in Melrose Park. The other segment will be between the Kress Interlocking at milepost 32.1 in West Chicago and the Peck Interlocking at milepost 38.4 in Geneva. Improvements are anticipated for all four of the interlockers that bookend the two segments. Additionally, a new interlocker may be constructed at milepost 35.4 between the Kress and Peck interlockers, which will increase operational flexibility. The interlocker improvements and additions will be constructed to meet Positive Train Control requirements. Improvements along both segments will include, but not be limited to, trackwork, earthwork, sub-ballast, structures, signal infrastructure, interlocking upgrades, and all work necessary at highway grade crossings. Bridge improvements will be needed over both the Des Plaines River and the Fox River to allow for the third mainline track. The project will also include platform relocations and improvements at both the Maywood and Melrose Park stations, and platform, platform shelter, and parking improvements at the Geneva station. Lastly, land acquisition may be required at various locations along the two segments in areas where the right of way is not wide enough to accommodate the third main track within the track centers required by the Union Pacific.

This project involves the replacement of 22 bridges on the UP North Line in Chicago, Illinois. The structural scope of work will include, but not be limited to, replacement of existing stone abutments, retaining wall construction, steel spans, and decks. Also, some track work will be accomplished between the bridges, including the replacement of wood ties with concrete ties, and some commuter station modifications will be required, including the Ravenswood Station. To ensure reliable train operations, theproject will include various signal improvements, including: new interlockers at Addison Street (MP 5.0) and Rosehill (MP 7.3, between Balmoral Avenue and Bryn Mawr Avenue), and upgrades to the Deering interlocker (MP 3.2). In

Rehabilitation required at this station that was not part of the Brown Line Reconstruction project and has older elevators that are part of the ASAP program on replacing existing elevators.

This project will provide design and construction funds for yard improvement projects at the yard facilities along the Milwaukee District lines. Upgrades under this project will include, but are not limited to, installation of electric heating elements for switches and the installation of steel grated boardwalks at the Western Avenue yard. Track work would include rail, ties, ballast and switches.

Metra investment in innovative, cleaner energy locomotives will be funded in part by this project which will procure locomotives that produce zero mobile emissions. This multi-year, multi-phase project will acquire state-of-the-art technologies and pilot their performance capabilities given Metra’s track profile and the Chicago region’s inclement weather patterns. Metra estimates that replacing one old diesel locomotive with a zero-emission locomotive will reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions by more than 30 tons per year, thus significantly reducing the agency’s greenhouse gas footprint and greatly improving air quality in the region. Funds programmed in 2022 will finance engineering and design services for yard facilities to prepare for the new technology.