For all the whining about traffic at the Tribune site, the traffic at The 78 might be worse. Ever tried to drive on Roosevelt between the Dan Ryan and Clark? The difference is that the traffic on Halsted and Chicago is rich people in Audis and Teslas who are screaming about their commute, and on Roosevelt it's middle-class people in Corollas and used pickups.
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Originally Posted by thegoatman
The 78 will have an underground red line station. If they pick the Tribune, they need to add an L station there.
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I strongly suspect the Red Line stop has been quietly canceled. There's no reason for Related to spend upwards of $300M to build a subway station unless the site will be developed with millions of SF in office space like Fulton Market. But the casino is a vast blob that will swallow up most of the land where that office space would've been built, and few people are gonna ride CTA to the casino.
However, suppose they did build the Red Line station per the original plan. The 78 site is
really really big. The new Red Line station would actually be further from the 78 casino than the Tribune casino is from the Blue Line at Chicago or Grand.
I agree the Tribune site needs some transit investment, so hopefully the city gets moving on the North Branch Transitway up to Lincoln Yards. Right now Union Pacific controls the rail corridor, and they won't sell it so long as Blommer Chocolate still needs shipments. So the city might need to give Blommer Chocolate some incentives to leave, after years of giving them incentives to stay.