Thanks to the completion of its double tracking project, the all-electric South Shore Line offers newly impressive journey times from Chicago to the Indiana Dunes National Park and South Bend.
Scott Kooi collects fares on an eastbound South Shore Line train from the Millennium Park station in Chicago, Sept. 8, 2017. Amid Chicago’s well-documented transit woes, especially at the calamitous Chicago Transit Authority, the region’s historic South Shore Line has been a quiet success story.
When it comes to Amtrak service, massive state and federal investments on lines like the ones from Chicago to St. Louis and Chicago to Michigan have not been accompanied by significantly increased service. But those South Shore Line trains are going to be a lot more visible as they whizz quietly back and forth without belching fumes into the air.
This all came at a price, of course: some $650 million, about 30% of which came from federal funds, with the rest made up of state and local funds. But the project, which entailed some three years of construction, came in on time, and the benefits are clear for the communities on the line, as well as for Chicagoans looking to breathe a little easier outdoors.
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