tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7307350.post1946038475789001494..comments2023-10-25T09:26:08.362-05:00Comments on raze the ladder: A Gray Line for ChicagoWalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06912406198051338502noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7307350.post-48856539721763115842008-07-30T00:06:00.000-05:002008-07-30T00:06:00.000-05:00You should know that that was the plan when the Da...You should know that that was the plan when the Dan Ryan L line was built. It was printed in the newspapers in the mid 60s. The entire South Side Mainline [the Jackson Park-Englewood lines] was to be abandoned & the L was to be moved to two unused tracks of the IC Mainline, which was ten tracks wide then. For unknown reasons it never happened & when the JP-Englewood lines were found to be structurally deficient, having been built in just six months in 1892-93, the politicians allowed the South Side ministers to force them into spending a few hundred million dollars into rebuilding it, along with the Lake St. L, which could have had most of it's route moved to the C&NW West Line. The line was to go to 115th St. & replace most of the IC local service on the South Side, letting the IC run mostly express from the far south suburbs.Clark St.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09634234069783123180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7307350.post-17735941759879539232008-06-28T21:10:00.000-05:002008-06-28T21:10:00.000-05:00i was looking some more at the density map (as is ...i was looking some more at the density map (as is my wont), and i think i should revise what i wrote a little. there is one other major population concentration that wouldn't be covered by the gray line, mid-city transitway, western ave subway, or circle line: chicago lawn, marquette park, and part of west englewood. to fix that, all we'd have to do would be to extend the ashland green line to midway.<BR/><BR/>so there you go - in 200 years we might have a pretty good transit system.Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06912406198051338502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7307350.post-66712347997652384312008-06-25T09:52:00.000-05:002008-06-25T09:52:00.000-05:00I was unaware of this, Jake. Thanks for your conti...I was unaware of this, Jake. Thanks for your continued attention to transit issues. It's time I finally get involved in this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7307350.post-87193956545044707302008-06-25T01:49:00.000-05:002008-06-25T01:49:00.000-05:00oops, didn't mean to let my white supremacy slip.i...oops, didn't mean to let my white supremacy slip.<BR/><BR/>i fixed the link, but the map of where white people live might be more useful as a predictor of where transit actually will expand.Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06912406198051338502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7307350.post-8231549518486452062008-06-24T22:50:00.000-05:002008-06-24T22:50:00.000-05:00Hear, hear.You might want to check the link to the...Hear, hear.<BR/><BR/>You might want to check the link to the density map. I don't think that map is what you think it is ;-)Eric Allix Rogershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16986356238650409976noreply@blogger.com