CTA riders won't be getting a new Green Line stop for the holidays.
The city has pushed back the targeted open date for the new Green Line stop by McCormick Place to early next year, said Pete Scales, a spokesman for the Chicago Department of Transportation, which is overseeing the project. In August, Scales said the Green Line stop was expected to be complete at the end of this year.
At a civic luncheon last week, where CTA President Forrest Claypool discussed transit projects, an audience member asked Claypool when the Cermak station would be ready. He said "late spring."
Scales blamed the subzero temperatures earlier this year for the delay. Scales also said the construction schedule was adjusted to minimize neighborhood traffic and Green Line disruptions.
The CTA has operated Green Line shuttle buses some weekends this year south of the Roosevelt stop so workers could build the station.
The new Cermak-McCormick Place Green Line stop will be the CTA's 146th station and the newest Green Line stop since 2012, when the Morgan stop opened on the Near West Side on the Green and Pink lines.
The McCormick Place stop is at Cermak Road and Wabash Avenue, between the Roosevelt and 35th-Bronzeville-IIT Green Line stations.
The stop will be getting elevators, bike racks and enclosed platforms. The $50 million project is being paid for with tax-increment financing, or TIF funds, taxpayer money intended to spur development in certain neighborhoods. Officials broke ground on the station in August 2013.
