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Old Oct 25, 2012 | 2:49 pm
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joethekay
 
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O’Hare / ORD to extend its people mover 2,000 feet to rental-car campus

Reports from the mayor's office in Chicago indicate that the people mover will be extended 2000' to Parking Lot F where a new central car rental facility will be built eliminating the buis transfer from each terminal. This will also enable access to the METRA train station adjacent.
It will start next year and be finished in 2016.

Aviation Commissioner Rosemarie Andolino pegged the cost of the people mover extension at $340 million and the combined cost of the extension and rental car campus at more than $700 million. She said the $8 fee slapped onto the cost of renting a car at O’Hare in 2010 should be enough to cover both projects.

The people mover will be extended to Parking Lot F at the southeast corner of Mannheim and Zemke. That’s where the city is building a new five-level economy parking structure to be shared by rental cars and public parking with convenient access to an existing Metra station. The extension is expected to be completed in 2016. The upgrade includes the purchase of 15 new people-mover cars.
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