Is there some substack hate 'round these parts?
10.03.2026 00:11
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Is there some substack hate 'round these parts?
The O'Hare train is more blue than the blue line
Safety is an important discussion that isn’t being addressed by @chicagocta.bsky.social . Soon NITA rolls out the transit ambassador program without a clear direction, meaning there's opportunity to shift the narrative and status quo around this issue substack.com/home/post/p-...
This bridge used to connect rail directly to navy pier through river north
150+ metra trains run through this crossing daily. Can you name the intersection?
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📌 Chicago and Halsted Bridge Reconstruction
A great case study on advocacy intervention to include bus and bike priority. Read more here: chi.streetsblog.org/2024/06/06/c...
From @strongtownschicago.bsky.social re: North DuSable Lakeshore Drive project. strongtownschicago.substack.com/p/urgent-hel...
Rumor has it they saw your mom loitering and they threw this sign up
What they've done with Independence Blvd has been nice with bike lanes and bumpouts/raised crosswalks. Hope they can replicate that everwhere, and then somehow find a connection on the northside to the lakefront
I found their spawn point
I hope they continue the community integration with the boulevard enhancement project to better connect the park itself, with farmers market programming, infrastructure improvements, etc. The park itself just got raised crosswalks this last year www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...
My best guess is gray or silver
Thinking it'll end up being a BRT like Ashland had, likely on Western or else. Any new rail at these construction costs would not warrant building vs expansion or new type of build.
I love this, next they need to reduce 2 lanes to 1, with some double wide bike lanes
What's the next line's color gonna be?
This memorial is both a thing of beauty, and a stark reminder of the death so common because of our built world. We owe it to them to make their death not in vein.
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y2k vibes
The burbs are trying to reinstate parking minimums near Metra stations and busy Pace routes.
Don’t let them.
Submit an “opponent” witness slip below.
Chicago's residential roads are comprised of layers: compacted gravel, 8" of concrete base, and 2" of asphalt. The concrete pour resembles an assembly line, with crew manning the chute, a vibrator, water application, and finishing.
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Sittin in the mornin sun
Ill be sittin when the concrete come
Watching the trains roll in
And then I watch em roll away again
Google Maps satellite view above downtown Chicago of the Clinton Green & Pink Line station and the approach tracks to Metra Ogilvie Transportation Center. The Blue Line is circled where it meets the other routes but does not stop, in the block of Milwaukee Avenue between Clinton, Fulton, and Canal Streets.
I'm sure it would be absurdly expensive and difficult to retrofit the tunnels, but it's a real shame the Blue Line subway was built without a station here to directly connect to Ogilvie and Clinton Green/Pink.
New Northwest Passage super-station?
Best museum exhibit by far
Would love to see support build for Western BRT and it becomes an issue the next mayor, whoever campaigns on promising to build it, wins. Then expand the network slowly, our arterial network is perfect for scalable BRT
Oh boy how you'll love my next article, stay tuned
If NITA was enacted prior to design, would the same decision be made? With the new interagency oversight , the framing could’ve shifted from spending the money on a costly extension to increasing existing nearby service. Potentially using the rest on other needed connections
Opinion: the Red Line Extension is a good project, but the $5.7B could be better utilized increasing service and infill stations on the owned Metra Electric and Rock Island service. Some stations are only a quarter mile to 1 mile away from the proposed alignment. Thoughts?
