(The following appeared on the Chicago Sun-Times website on February 25, 2011.)
CHICAGO — At a muddy trainyard at 63rd and State streets Thursday, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and two Democratic congressmen blasted recent budget slashing by the Republican House majority that would erase funding meant to ease congestion at one of the region’s busiest railway intersections.
The Englewood Flyover project, which has already seen $8 million in federal, state and private monies spent, was a plan to build a rail bridge at the South Side yard where Metra, Amtrak and freight train traffic have long created major gridlock.
The project brings with it some 1,500 jobs.
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