Committee Backs 4 Streetcar Extensions

The Department of Public Works would be directed to pursue federal grants to fund the majority of four extensions: a Lower East Side line to Brady Street via N. Prospect Avenue and N. Farwell Avenue, a Westown line to Fiserv Forum via N. Vel R. Phillips Avenue, a new line north from Fiserv Forum to Bronzeville and a new line south from the Historic Third Ward to National Avenue in Walker’s Point.

The city would need to find local funding to partially match any federal grant. But it will need to do so with the new state-imposed restriction that it can’t spend any property tax revenue, nor its proposed sales tax, on the project.