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Originally Posted by Baronvonellis
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.
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It will stay that way until they change the structure of the RTA. Obvious, solutions like the Grey Line, more Metra stations in the city and unified ticketing/transfers would be great for the whole region. Instead we get a power struggle between Metra, Pace and CTA. We try to build multi-billion dollar heavy rail line (Red line extension) a few blocks from existing, working tracks.
I was disappointed that this never came up during the Governor’s race.