Chicago 2100 Urbanism

150+ metra trains run through this crossing daily. Can you name the intersection?

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Rumor has it they saw your mom loitering and they threw this sign up

What they've done with Independence Blvd has been nice with bike lanes and bumpouts/raised crosswalks. Hope they can replicate that everwhere, and then somehow find a connection on the northside to the lakefront

I found their spawn point

I hope they continue the community integration with the boulevard enhancement project to better connect the park itself, with farmers market programming, infrastructure improvements, etc. The park itself just got raised crosswalks this last year www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...

My best guess is gray or silver

Thinking it'll end up being a BRT like Ashland had, likely on Western or else. Any new rail at these construction costs would not warrant building vs expansion or new type of build.

I love this, next they need to reduce 2 lanes to 1, with some double wide bike lanes

What's the next line's color gonna be?

This memorial is both a thing of beauty, and a stark reminder of the death so common because of our built world. We owe it to them to make their death not in vein.

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y2k vibes

The burbs are trying to reinstate parking minimums near Metra stations and busy Pace routes.

Don’t let them.

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Chicago's residential roads are comprised of layers: compacted gravel, 8" of concrete base, and 2" of asphalt. The concrete pour resembles an assembly line, with crew manning the chute, a vibrator, water application, and finishing.

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Sittin in the mornin sun
Ill be sittin when the concrete come
Watching the trains roll in
And then I watch em roll away again

Google Maps satellite view above downtown Chicago of the Clinton Green & Pink Line station and the approach tracks to Metra Ogilvie Transportation Center. The Blue Line is circled where it meets the other routes but does not stop, in the block of Milwaukee Avenue between Clinton, Fulton, and Canal Streets.

I'm sure it would be absurdly expensive and difficult to retrofit the tunnels, but it's a real shame the Blue Line subway was built without a station here to directly connect to Ogilvie and Clinton Green/Pink.

New Northwest Passage super-station?

Best museum exhibit by far

Would love to see support build for Western BRT and it becomes an issue the next mayor, whoever campaigns on promising to build it, wins. Then expand the network slowly, our arterial network is perfect for scalable BRT

Oh boy how you'll love my next article, stay tuned

If NITA was enacted prior to design, would the same decision be made? With the new interagency oversight , the framing could’ve shifted from spending the money on a costly extension to increasing existing nearby service. Potentially using the rest on other needed connections

Opinion: the Red Line Extension is a good project, but the $5.7B could be better utilized increasing service and infill stations on the owned Metra Electric and Rock Island service. Some stations are only a quarter mile to 1 mile away from the proposed alignment. Thoughts?

That's good to reference, do you have a link or press release from CDOT to show that? I am writing an article on this and would be good to note.

From a safety standpoint this will likely cause problems, but maybe in 20 years they'll reevaluate. In the interim will require dedicated signaling

Unfortunately the plan would keep most parking spots in lieu of a travel lane. The width of a parking lane is much narrower, so to make a dedicated bus lane, you really need to take a car lane, not parking

Some of the pushback was left turns, other was 2 to 1 lane. They seem to be addressing the left turn concerns with the BPCS designs. The ashland proposal preserved 9/10 parking spaces, even tho studies showed utilization was closer to 70%. The parking meter deal gets in the way of removing more

All door boarding needs to happen with BRT to facilitate passenger flow. This could easily happen if they had the foresight to install pre-paid boarding. Conveniently they left this out with loop link and the results were unsurprisingly lackluster. Need to front the capital costs to see the benefit