Comments on: Chicago is Fooling Itself http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/03/14/chicago-is-fooling-itself/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:40:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jake http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/03/14/chicago-is-fooling-itself/#comment-709 Jake Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:11:09 +0000 http://thetransportpolitic.com/?p=1670#comment-709 Actually there is train service - the Green Line goes to Washington Park, where the stadium and swimming facility would be built, and the Metra Electric Line serves most of the other venues and the proposed Olympic Village. The problem is the Metra Electric, tho once operated as a rapid transit line, now runs as a commuter line, with trains only once an hour off-peak. A South Side community group called SOUL thinks this is the right time to switch the South Chicago branch of the Metra Electric back to rapid transit and to allow CTA transfers, which would essentially bring the El to a group of dense, underserved neighborhoods. The proposal has won a lot of community and political support, but Metra is dragging its feet. Hopefully if Chicago wins the Olympics, this will be one of the positive legacies that the Chicago 2016 Committee has thus far ignored. Actually there is train service – the Green Line goes to Washington Park, where the stadium and swimming facility would be built, and the Metra Electric Line serves most of the other venues and the proposed Olympic Village. The problem is the Metra Electric, tho once operated as a rapid transit line, now runs as a commuter line, with trains only once an hour off-peak.

A South Side community group called SOUL thinks this is the right time to switch the South Chicago branch of the Metra Electric back to rapid transit and to allow CTA transfers, which would essentially bring the El to a group of dense, underserved neighborhoods. The proposal has won a lot of community and political support, but Metra is dragging its feet. Hopefully if Chicago wins the Olympics, this will be one of the positive legacies that the Chicago 2016 Committee has thus far ignored.

]]> By: Katie http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/03/14/chicago-is-fooling-itself/#comment-708 Katie Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:39:16 +0000 http://thetransportpolitic.com/?p=1670#comment-708 Hey, maybe wining is right. Maybe that's why our leaders are so deluded -- they've been wining it up. There's also no freaking train service to the places where they want to hold the games. Hey, maybe wining is right. Maybe that’s why our leaders are so deluded — they’ve been wining it up.

There’s also no freaking train service to the places where they want to hold the games.

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