Its like 50 min to Evanston (I could meet a nice girl on the L here have children and retire before I get to the end of the line.)..The L system outside of the Midway and O'Hare lines is slow as molasses because it was built at a time when no one had cars and stops at every intersection. I would eliminate half the stations. Skip stop was said not to work. The other alterative would be a express track that would cost billions of $$$$$$. But closing stations would be a political nightmare and suicide for the mayor. Biking on the waterfront is faster and seemed to be the answer from the former mayor Daily
CTA rapid transit equipment has been built for maximum speeds of 55 MPH. This is quite similar to most other urban rapid transit operations and a higher top speed is meaningless when most stations are about a half-mile to one mile apart. CTA did close a lot of stations shortly after it took over transit operation in 1947. Also, there was a lot of complaining about station closings at the time the Green Line was rebuilt.
Bonaventure10 Biking on the waterfront is faster and seemed to be the answer from the former mayor Daily
Biking on the waterfront is faster and seemed to be the answer from the former mayor Daily
Mayor Daily ????????????????
You can't be from Shi-caw-ga.
It is Daley, my friend.
Rich
Alton Junction
First you redesign the population, work centers and traffic flow in the Chicago metro area and space out the stations so there is more running at higher speeds between stops. No problems there! [/sarcasm]
The more popular something becomes the more it's capacity is stressed and slower things get as there is more compeition for a finite amount of resources - and when there is competition for resources, someone is going to have to wait for the resource to become available to them.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Isn't there an Evanston Express service? Possibly it should be full-time, not just rush hours?
The solution is closing stations and remaking the bus service to feed into the new stations. Seems just like NYC CTA bus and train divisions dont talk to each other well.
In addition to running the Evanston Express full time (OK except weekends and nights) the southside el could use the center track for northbound expresses in the AM and southbound in the PM. Englewoods could be the expresses and Robers Parks th locals.
The Evanston Express used to run until noon on weekdays. Current track arrangements, especially south of Fullerton, preclude any real time savings. As far as the South Side main (the south leg of the Green Line) is concerned, the center track was out of service for years and was removed during the rebuilding in the 1990's.
There is no Roberts Park line on the L.
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