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Yesterday, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) President Forrest Claypool announced a new initiative aimed at repairing 100 stations during the next 12 months.

Work performed at each station will be determined by the facility’s specific needs and configurations, but could include painting, new lighting, repairs, power washing walls and ceilings, replacing signs and landscaping, according to the CTA. The first station to undergo a renewal was the Logan Squire Blue Line station; the next will be the line’s California station.

“With this new station renewal program, we’ll have cleaner, brighter, more functional stations for CTA riders,” Emanuel said in a prepared statement.

Work crews representing various trades that used to operate independently on different schedules and locations will be organized into “renew crews” that will focus on providing repairs “in a more efficient way,” CTA officials said.

“This is a sort of SWAT team approach to comprehensively address all the outstanding issues at a station at once — cleaning, repairing and improving rather than the piecemeal approach used previously,” said Claypool.