field Road and East 119th Street. The loca- tion is a short distance from the Uptown res- idential and retail district and is close to the new location of the Museum of Contempo- rary Art. To the east of the new station is Little Italy. To the west, beyond Euclid Av- enue, is Case Western Reserve University. The total cost of the new facility is expected to be $17.5 million. Paying for the project, which is expected to begin in 2013, will be shared by the RTA, Cleveland Foundation, Case Western Reserve, Little Italy, and the Northeast Ohio Area wide Coordination Council. The good news was supplied by G. Danchisen; thank you.
Rail News from Charlotte Inspired by an item in a recent version of this column, Bob Bischoff sent a letter with more information about rail transit in Char- lotte, North Carolina. The light rail line now in operation is the Lynx Blue Line. A full funding grant from the Federal Transit Ad- ministration is expected in 2012 and when that money is obtained the light rail line will be extended 9.4 miles from the present downtown terminal northeast to the Univer- sity of North Carolina, Charlotte. The entire runthrough distance will be 19 miles. In addition to the light rail, Charlotte is
also contemplating a streetcar line and to this end, the Federal Transit Administration has provided a $25 million grant that Char- lotte will match with $12 million to construct a 1.5 mile starter streetcar line. It is hoped that this will eventually be a ten mile line that will connect with the light rail line at the Charlotte Transportation Center in the downtown area. The streetcar service will
then pass by a major sports arena, and Gov- ernment Center, a large community college and end at the Presbyterian Hospital. Con- struction is planned to start after the Demo- cratic National Convention in 2012 and is to be completed by 2015. Again thanks to Bob Bischoff for the good news, and also to an old friend of 65 years, Dave Crawford.
NICTD/South Shore: Farewell to Kensington Ever since the South Shore Line service was extended into the Chicago Loop a century ago the trains from the South Shore Line coming onto the Illinois Central electric line tracks at 115th Street in the Kensington section of Chicago’s south side have served the station at that spot. That changed on February 15, 2012, when the bypass around the Kensington station opened. The change had been a long time in gestation because discussions with Metra Electric and the Canadian National (which bought out the Illinois Central) began in the late 1990s. The South Shore cannot handle local pas- sengers along the Metra Electric line and there were not many South Shore passen- gers who wished to deboard at Kensington to transfer to Metra Electric trains. Opera- tion through the station and across the dia- monds of the erstwhile Illinois Central through passenger and freight lines was slow, and there were many delays. With the change the South Shore trains
shift from track to track across the Canadi- an National and then connect directly with Metra Electric tracks 3 and 4. The new dis- pensation will save a few minutes in operat- ing time and help to reduce the number of complete delays at the station.
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