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Public Information Notice #3 The Federal Highway Administration, Illinois Department of Transportation, Chicago Department of Transportation and Association of American Railroads have agreed to modifications to the CREATE Program in response to changing needs. In particular, the full Central Corridor, as defined in the original CREATE Feasibility Plan & Preliminary Screening (FP&PS), is no longer required. Major portions of the southern half of the Central Corridor are being retained, however, to provide a new direct route (over the NS Chicago Line) for Amtrak trains from New Orleans and Carbondale into Chicago Union Station, while minimizing impacts to Amtrak and freight service already using this line. These improvements are now part of the P4 project. Also, the C5 project has been largely retained and is now known as the WA7 project. The rationale for these changes is that the CN has an alternate route available and no longer requires the Central Corridor.
Revised documents, namely Amendment 1 to the CREATE Feasibility Plan and Amendment 1 to the CREATE Preliminary Screening document, are available by following this link. These documents show new or modified content as markups and deleted content as strikethroughs. All other text has been retained from the original FP&PS documents.
You are invited to comment on the changes to these documents. You may submit comments:
Lawrence Wilson Illinois Department of Transportation 100 W Randolph St., Suite 6-600 Chicago, IL 60601-3229
Comments must be received via email or telephone, or postmarked via mail delivery, by September 11, 2009.
Thank you.
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