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The alignment-plus the $75 million the CTA has already laid down for an official Environmental Impact Statement-show the city is serious, officials said.

Personal Rapid Transit: The Revolution in the Chicago Suburbs that Almost HappenedĮmanuel and Carter stood before a blown-up map showing a projected alignment for the new route, which would hug existing Union Pacific and Metra Electric tracks before ending at the city’s southern border at 130th Street.

“I’m confident we will… secure the resources because of the significance of the project and the investment the city is willing to make,” Emanuel said of the $2.3 billion endeavor, according to the Sun-Times. Earlier this year, Mayor Rahm Emanuel stood beside CTA president Dorval Carter in Roseland’s Block Park and tried to convince a gaggle of reporters that a 5.3-mile southern extension of the system’s Red Line-a project Far South Side residents have been promised since the 58-year-old mayor was in grade school-is really going to happen this time.