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Originally Posted by SIGSEGV
Trips to Midway are already pretty fast, not sure there would be much benefit to an express that was marginally faster.
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Good point.
While there is definitely value in express trains to O'Hare, the blue line is a terrible alignment for doing that. Using existing rail lines, ala Metra's NCS or MD-W, would offer much better bang for the buck. It would still require a connection with the Blue Line coming out of O'Hare station, or better yet (although obviously more costly) running the line directly to the CTA O'Hare station itself. Good luck routing the line into B37 however, especially since there is a perfectly good downtown terminus for those lines at Union.
I think the best we can hope for with the B37 station is a non revenue rail connection between the blue and red, but good luck getting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to get that operational, especially since there's an existing connection with the blue to the rest of the CTA network (Paulina Connector).