Dubuque Intermodal Transportation Center | |
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General information | |
Location | 950 Elm Street Dubuque, Iowa |
Coordinates | 42°30′20″N 90°39′44″W / 42.50556°N 90.66222°W |
Owned by | City of Dubuque |
Line(s) | Canadian National Railway |
Construction | |
Parking | Yes |
Bicycle facilities | Yes |
Accessible | Yes |
History | |
Opened | August 17, 2015 |
The Dubuque Intermodal Transportation Center (DITC) is a bus station located in Dubuque, Iowa. It serves as the new transfer center for Dubuque's bus system, between Jule buses and intercity buses serving Dubuque, and as a transfer point between other modes of land transportation. [1]
The center was intended to be the western terminal of the Black Hawk, a Chicago– Rockford–Dubuque Amtrak intercity rail route. [2] The city of Dubuque received an $8 million FTA state of good repair grant in addition to grants from several area institutions to go towards phase 1 of the center's construction. Phase 2 was planned to be funded by a TIGER V grant. [3] That grant application failed, but alternative funding came from several other sources. On April 10, 2014, a new proposal for Amtrak service to terminate in Rockford was announced following the inability of the state of Illinois to reach a deal with the Canadian National Railway for use of their tracks. Due to the new proposal, the train station component of the center was placed on hold until a deal could be reached with the CN. [4] The city of Dubuque broke ground on the rest of the DITC project in May 2014. [5] The center, except for the train station portion, opened on August 17, 2015. [6]