Blue Line- Chicago
Anyone have pictures of Chicago's Blue Line since it was redone?
Anyone have pictures of Chicago's Blue Line since it was redone?
The one thing I dislike about Chicago is its elevated downtown metro route. The whole downtown route should have been put underground as other cities Chicago's size have done.Not sure if Chicago's L has had a thread like this, but anyways...
Thats the worst thing you could do to chicago.The one thing I dislike about Chicago is its elevated downtown metro route. The whole downtown route should have been put underground as other cities Chicago's size have done.
To each their own. I just doubt they would be having quite as many problems if they had the downtown route converted into a subway from the get-go.Thats the worst thing you could do to chicago.
Its such a pleasure to drive through the streets on the +1,5 level, not underground, like any other city.
Thats what I meant with the EL being so much a part of Chicago.
I have a question -would it be cheaper simply to convert the El (and the downtown portions of other lines) into a subway as opposed to making extensive renovations?But they should renovate it, so that it looks nice from underneath.
Right now it looks, as if it falls apart within the next 15 minutes
http://www.metrarail.comMetra (Officially known as the Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corporation) is a Regional rail that serves the city of Chicago, Illinois, and surrounding cities, many of them Chicago suburbs. The railroad serves over 200 stations on 11 different rail lines across the Regional Transportation Authority's six-county service area (Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will Counties) providing over 80 million rides annually. Metra has been honored with several E.H. Harriman Awards for employee safety, most recently with a Bronze award in class B (line-haul railroads with between 4 and 15 million employee hours per year) for 2005. Previous Harriman Awards conferred to Metra include Gold awards for 2003 and 2004 and a Silver award for 2002.
Not really, the red line stars above ground, goes undergound comes back out. Same with the Blue lines. All part of their respective lines.wait doesn't the chicago L has two subway lines??? running thru the city loop??
they are the red line and the blue line that runs thru the city why are people saying that the Loop if Chicago has two subway lines???
They say Loop because the term dates back to the days of the cable cars where they would 'loop' around near Marshall Fields. When the EL was built, there were no subways and the tracks 'looped' downtown, so the name was extended to mean the elevated tracks around the CBD.they are the red line and the blue line that runs thru the city why are people saying that the Loop if Chicago has two subway lines???