{"id":817,"date":"2017-03-16T13:59:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T18:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/?p=817"},"modified":"2017-03-16T14:00:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T19:00:06","slug":"new-loop-l-stop-construction-to-shut-down-wabash-avenue-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/new-loop-l-stop-construction-to-shut-down-wabash-avenue-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"New Loop ‘L’ Stop Construction To Shut Down Wabash Avenue Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Construction of the new “L” stop coming to Wabash Avenue and Washington Street will shut down a Loop intersection and disrupt Downtown trains this weekend.<\/p>\n

The intersection of Wabash and Washington will be closed to motorists from 9 p.m. Friday-6 a.m. Monday, the city’s Department of Transportation said.<\/p>\n

Downtown “L” trains will also be rerouted.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Orange and Brown Line trains will merge into one route between Kimball and Midway via the LaSalle\/Van Buren stop.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Green Line trains will operate between Harlem and 63rd via Wells and Van Buren.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Pink Line trains will run between 54th\/Cermak and Polk, then to the Racine Blue Line stop for connecting service to and from Downtown.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Riders can transfer between elevated trains and Blue and Red line subways using the Harold Washington Library and Jackson\u00a0stations.<\/p>\n

The new stop at Washington and Wabash will “probably” open later this spring, transportation department spokesman Michael Claffey said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Construction of the new “L” stop coming to Wabash Avenue and Washington Street will shut down a Loop intersection and disrupt Downtown trains this weekend. The intersection of Wabash and Washington will be closed to motorists from 9 p.m. Friday-6 a.m. Monday, the city’s Department of Transportation said. Downtown “L” trains will also be rerouted. … Continue reading New Loop ‘L’ Stop Construction To Shut Down Wabash Avenue Traffic<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/lstationloop.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}