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Originally Posted by Mr Downtown
The usual rule of thumb in city planning circles is that folks will willingly walk a quarter-mile to a transit station before it seems like too much trouble.
I'm glad that you enjoy and have the ability to take such lengthy walks every day in all kinds of weather, but expecting everyone to live that way is just asking for disappointment.
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That seems completely silly considering the vast majority of Chicago is further than 1/4 mile from the train and seems to do just fine. In my experience people will gladly walk 1/2 mile or more to the train if it takes them fairly directly to their job (which all the transit lines in Chicago do for most people).
This site isn't even 1/2 mile from the Clinton Blue Line stop to begin with, it's like just under 2,000'. If people are not willing to walk 2000' to get on a train that will take them 2 or 3 stops to the heart of the Loop, then Chicago may as well dissolve as a municipality right now and relegate itself to the junk heap of failed experiments in urban planning.