^ Chicago is like the opposite of the bay area's fuzzy rail transit line functionality.
We have the L, which only operates as a third rail intra-city heavy rail rapid transit system (with the yellow line as a bit of an oddball).
And then we have the metra system, which operates as a big old diesel locomotive powered longer distance commuter rail radiating out in all directions across the vast suburban sprawl, with the exception of metra's aptly-named electric district on the Southside, which runs off of overhead catenary lines, and in some sections has stop spacing similar to rapid transit.
Though there are plenty of at-grade sections of both systems, neither ever runs with mixed traffic, they always have a dedicated ROW.
Chicago has nothing that could be called light rail.
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