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Originally Posted by glowrock
That's more or less my entire point. What Chicago seems to lack are relatively transit-friendly, relatively safe affordable areas. There are lots of safe areas, lots of transit-friendly regions, plenty of affordable areas, but a serious lack of anything reasonably affordable that are relatively safe AND have good transit access.
I certainly live in an area that's relatively safe and affordable, and while transit access is fairly decent, it's still a bit of a time suck to get anywhere, whether by bus or a walk to the Blue Line... 
Aaron (Glowrock) |
Yea, that's true and Chicago doesn't have enough cross town connections by train. Since it's a hub and spoke design instead of a web design. Like Munich has half the population of Chicago but about twice as many train lines going everywhere in the city like a web. Then the commuter lines also act like a high speed backbone through the central city, and allow easy transfers between subways to other neighborhood and suburban commuter lines. So that you can get from almost any neighborhood to any random suburb in under 45 minutes. Or any city neighborhood to any other city neighborhood in under 30 minutes.
Chicago just needs to build twice as many subways and transit lines to make that happen haha. And have the metra and cta stations have simple transfers at stations all around Chicago.