Tuesday morning’s meeting was open to the public, but geared particularly toward local businesses that will be affected by the construction. The “pre-stage” work also includes building new track interlockings near Thorndale and Montrose that will allow trains to run along two tracks instead of the current four and improving the two tracks that will still be used for train service. Temporary stations will be constructed at Argyle and Bryn Mawr sometime this year. During reconstruction, the Lawrence and Berwyn stations shut down entirely. Reconstruction of the four stations is scheduled to start late this year or in early 2021 and finish by the end of 2024.
Throughout 2020, crews will be doing major “pre-stage” work ahead of a complete reconstruction of the Lawrence, Argyle, Berwyn and Bryn Mawr stations, according to a CTA handout. “We want to make sure that everyone who is affected by this knows what’s going to happen … so that as we go through this it’s something that can be looked at as a model for communication and success on a construction project.” Harry Osterman told the crowd gathered at Furama Restaurant on Tuesday morning. “There are going to be a lot of heavy, heavy impacts on the community and we don’t minimize that, but we’re going to survive this together,” 48th Ward Ald. At the first of four community meetings this week, the CTA, its contractors for the project and city officials met with residents and businesses to offer details and set expectations.
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