While our poor old Wilson El station has trouble just getting a collapsed roof repaired, vandalism removed, weeds pulled from the roof, and vacant storefronts filled, the CTA announced that is spending $67.2 Million to refurbish the Grand station downtown.
Helen said at the debate last winter that the CTA had promised her money three times previously for a rehab of the Wilson L station, only to have the money pulled from her each time.
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Unless it has something to do with social services or subsidized housing, you can just forget it.
I don't begrudge Grand/State its sorely needed renovation (no more bubbly floors and draperies of mold? whatever will we do without them?), and I understand the high cost of working on such a hemmed-in station, but one would think stations like Wilson would at least get some attention before someone has a ceiling fall on them, or a board on the platform gives way.
ReplyDeletetechnically, CDOT owns the state street subway and its stations, not the CTA.
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