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Originally Posted by The North One
Probably because the red line goes a lot deeper into the south side and reaches the less blighted parts.
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ok then, let's just look at station boardings on the southside red and green lines through the section of town where their routes overlap, so that would be all the stops south of roosevelt down to 63rd. yes, the redline continues with 4 more stops down to 95th, but we won't count those here.
(using 2019 figures again to avoid any covid weirdness).
southside red line (chinatown thru 63rd) avg. weekday boardings: 17,400
southside green line avg. weekday boardings: 11,054
source:
https://www.transitchicago.com/asset...hip_Report.pdf
so even when we disregard the more heavily used section of the redl ine on the far southside, we see that the red line's expressway trench ROW through the mid-southside is still more heavily used than the green line's legacy-style ROW through the same part of town.
that doesn't negate the fact that running rapid transit down expressway medians is still generally a bad ideal compared to other types of rapid transit ROWs (subway or elevated through the heart of urban neighborhoods), but i thought it was interesting to note nontheless because i can't think of another situation in the nation where a traditonal-style rapid transit ROW so very closely parallels an expressway median ROW through the same part of the city.