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Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright
Three things:
1. Chicago has the best built environment in the world, not Paris. We have a lot of "missing teeth" as a city, but you can hardly fault a city so young for not yet being "complete" in the way an ancient city like Paris or London is. But our unique fabric of a thoroughly modern commerical city built on a pre-auto scale with modern planning and transit isn't found anywhere else.
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Man, have you been to cities in Europe like Paris, Berlin, or Munich? The transit system is light years better there. You can get to any neighborhood to any neighborhood quickly across town. You can effortlessly hop from commuter rail, to subway, to tram, to bus. The commuter rail acts as express trains in the core city, running frequently. Just imagine Metra running trains every 5-10 mins with lots more stops in the city of Chicago, with transfers to subways. They have much better urban planning of active midrise neighborhoods, without any ugly parking podiums to be seen. Then outside the city is farm land and forests without the miles and miles of suburban sprawl we have in the US. Basically what the suburbs of Chicago were like pre-WW2. Quiet walkable commuter train suburbs with frequent trains going to downtown near nature.
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