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Originally Posted by moorhosj
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.
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I hate Toni Preckwinkle for many reasons, but her Cook County DOT has come out in support of regional rail or something like it, on both Metra Electric and Rock Island, because it would benefit south suburbs as well as Far South Side city neighborhoods. And for once, Metra's leadership is (somewhat) receptive.
Of course, this faint progress on Metra Electric/RI is only thanks to a happy coincidence of supportive leaders in various agencies. The structural problem remains... but if they can get real improvements on ME and RI, it would be a good template for the other Metra lines.