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Originally Posted by ardecila
The O'Hare plans include a second people mover system, unconnected to the existing one, within the security perimeter. You could go through security in one terminal then ride the train across to the other terminal to board.
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Presumably you're referring to a system primarily for people changing planes between W and E. Your suggestion of people entering the airport on one side and eventually boarding on the other is limited to people with no luggage to check (or claim, for arriving passengers), and no other need to line up at their airline's counter.
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Originally Posted by ardecila
There are completely separate plans to extend the Blue Line underneath the airport to the western terminal. The western station would be OUTSIDE security. This would be extremely costly, but it would allow for a new regional transit center at the western terminal, with LRT or BRT connections to Schaumburg, BRT connections to various places in the W/NW suburbs, the STAR Line, and possibly HSR.
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One figures, though, once you've spent a billion $ getting the Blue Line to the W side of the airport, that extending it 4-5 extra miles through warehouse-land and closer to Schaumburg, or at least Itasca, would be a no-brainer. (Another billion $ maybe, but with disproportionately huge benefit - especially since Schaumburg is a glaring gap in the Metra network.) Don't know if it's legally possible, but how cool (and inexpensive) would it be to have the Blue Line run through pristine sections of that giant forest preserve..?
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