Two North Side CTA Red Line stations closed as of Sunday for more than three years and two others have temporary entrances as part of the transit agency’s modernization project.
As of Sunday, the Lawrence and Berwyn stations closed and temporary stations are being used at the Argyle and Bryn Mawr stops, the CTA said.
The four stations, which the CTA said are about 100 years old, will be rebuilt to be fully accessible to passengers with disabilities, and include elevators, wider platforms and improved amenities. The work also will include building new track, support structures, bridges and viaducts.
The stations will reopen near the end of 2024. Red and Purple line service will continue during construction, but trains will share tracks and customers should allow extra travel time, the CTA said.
During construction, buses on Lawrence and Foster avenues will be rerouted to allow riders to transfer at the Wilson and Bryn Mawr Red Line stations.
The work is part of the first phase of the transit agency’s $2.1 billion Red- and Purple-line modernization project.
The phase also includes the Red-Purple bypass, which will take northbound Brown Line tracks over the Red and Purple lines near the busy Belmont Station and reconstruct the track beneath the bypass, and the installation of a new signal system between the Howard and Belmont stations.
The bypass is expected to be finished this year, and the entire phase by 2025.
The first phase of the project is funded by a combination of grants, federal money, $622 million in Chicago transit tax increment financing and $400 million from CTA.
The overall project, including later phases, will rebuild the entire corridor between the Linden station at the north end of the Purple Line and the Red, Purple and Brown line station at Belmont, according to the CTA.
