Chicago Suburban-O'Hare Rail Connector

>>1080842
Do you think it could be a new CTA line, or something else?

>>1080844
I think it would require a degree of city & suburban intra-agency cooperation (CTA & Metra/RTA) that makes this proposal even less feasible, politically.

Connecting Skokie to the Blue Line is being done as part of the Mid-City Transitway, and CTA has actually had plans to extend the Yellow Line out to Lake Cook Road for a very long time.

>>1081282
>Connecting Skokie to the Blue Line is being done as part of the Mid-City Transitway
So this is still actually on the books?

>CTA has actually had plans to extend the Yellow Line out to Lake Cook Road for a very long time
It looks like Northfield and Northbrook killed that idea in 2002. I wonder if there's a way to cuck them and bring it back.

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>>1080842
I was going into this thread in full disagreement but looking at that map, it wouldn't be bad actually. Extended the start of the red so it touches the beginning of the brown line on Kimball and it'll have far reach with a decent population to move

I was just at the abandoned rail near the yellow dot between red and blue lines

Northfield and Northbrook aren't even real towns

Fuck them and their NIMBY bullshit

>>1080842

Interesting, but as you said, probably not economically expedient.

The general notion is that nearly everyone in suburbs own and drive cars. It might be a feasible consideration if O'hare didn't have boatloads of parking. Economy parking is down to $10/day there, which is drastically different from rates downtown, which averages ~$15/hour.

I think the CTA Blue Line which services lower income communities along the Kennedy and relatively lower car ownership in and around downtown is pretty good in and of itself.