The North -American Department of Transport freezes $ 2.1 billion for the red line of the red authority of the Red Authority of Chicago and red and purple modernization, while performing a review of the hiring practices used in the projects in relation to a final rule of the disadvantaged business companies that he published in the Federal Registry on October 3.
The Rule Bar Bars the Race and Sex Requirements in Federal Transport Aid and runs DBE programs to re -review all companies that have certified according to new standards. In his statement, Dot called the existing DBE practices “unconstitutional”.
Dot also reviews phase 2 of the second MTA MTA metro phase and the Hudson Tunnel project of the Gateway Development Commission between New York and New Jersey, and the freezing of $ 18 billion for those projects in the meantime, announced on October 1.
“As a whole, these critical reviews are aimed at ensuring that there are no additional federal dollars towards discriminatory, illegal and wasted hiring practices,” Dot said in his statement.
The $ 2.9 million red line extension project is adding 5.5 miles and four stations to 103rd, 11th Street, Avenue Michigan and 130th Street. CTA selected the contractors of the Walsh-Vinci Transit Community Partners design contractors to direct the project, and early work is underway, including the preparation of the site, the construction of demolitions and the useful transfers.
The red and purple modernization of $ 2.1 billion of CTA is updating the unique set of slopes that the two lines work with new signs, a Bypass structure north of the Belmont station, the replacement of the track structure and the reconstruction of the stations. The project has already reduced travel times for pilots, as well as creating accessible stations, four of which opened this summer, said Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson in a statement.
The traffic authority did not immediately say if the project schedules would be affected.
Johnson called the movement a “politically motivated decision by the White House Management and Budget Office”. The Director of the Shadow, Russel, tweeted about the funding of New York and Chicago, frozen ahead of dowry ads, as well as $ 7.5 billion in the Department of Energy Subsidies canceled before Doe’s announcement.
“We are asking that these cuts be immediately reversed and we will use all the tools at our disposal to restore this funding,” said Johnson.
Although the United States dot retains federal funding for projects waiting for its review, it also stated that the current government stop would delay the review. In his statement, he blamed the Democrats of paralysis, although the Senate on October 3 rejected the bills of expenses sponsored by both Republicans and Democrats.
Freezing freezing also comes when the Trump administration and state officials disagreed with the increase in the application of immigration and a plan that the Governor of Illinois JB Pritzker (D) said that the administration must deploy the National Guard troops in the city.
“At a time when federal agents look like chaos in Chicago, the Trump administration maintains hostage bipartisan funding,” Tweighted Pritzker on October 3. “It’s about scoring political points, but it hurts our economy and workers who trust public transport to get to work or school.”
