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<blockquote data-quote="ChiefGritty" data-source="post: 2017967" data-attributes="member: 746137"><p>Depending on where the Sox stadium sits on the 78 parcel (and it can't be the nearest corner because there are train tracks there) that Roosevelt stop isn't that close, negligibly closer than Soldier Field really and certainly nothing resembling the Addison Red Line stop for Wrigley</p><p></p><p>Sort of a close but no cigar situation, half a mile of outrageously trafficked Roosevelt in either direction.</p><p></p><p>They haven't finalized that yet. THAT would be big, and is the kind of thing I'm talking about.</p><p></p><p>A fun idea, but an extremely low throughput option in the absolute maximum.</p><p></p><p>See how I got to the word "reimagining"?</p><p></p><p>I like that idea, but not as much as I like the idea of the city just buying the Metra Electric Line, which starts at Millennium Park and then hits Soldier Field, McCormick Place, the coming Obama Library, and then veers into exactly the territory in which the CTA plans to spend 10x the money building the Red Line extension.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Eh, there's a reason the 78 land hasn't been built on. Despite its central location it's an inconvenient little pocket of the city. The same as is often said of Soldier Field.</p><p></p><p>But build those new transit links and create better pedestrian thoroughfares through that area and it could be a neighborhood transformed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChiefGritty, post: 2017967, member: 746137"] Depending on where the Sox stadium sits on the 78 parcel (and it can't be the nearest corner because there are train tracks there) that Roosevelt stop isn't that close, negligibly closer than Soldier Field really and certainly nothing resembling the Addison Red Line stop for Wrigley Sort of a close but no cigar situation, half a mile of outrageously trafficked Roosevelt in either direction. They haven't finalized that yet. THAT would be big, and is the kind of thing I'm talking about. A fun idea, but an extremely low throughput option in the absolute maximum. See how I got to the word "reimagining"? I like that idea, but not as much as I like the idea of the city just buying the Metra Electric Line, which starts at Millennium Park and then hits Soldier Field, McCormick Place, the coming Obama Library, and then veers into exactly the territory in which the CTA plans to spend 10x the money building the Red Line extension. Eh, there's a reason the 78 land hasn't been built on. Despite its central location it's an inconvenient little pocket of the city. The same as is often said of Soldier Field. But build those new transit links and create better pedestrian thoroughfares through that area and it could be a neighborhood transformed. [/QUOTE]
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