I started a new thread for this because I wanted to just focus any discussion on this particular proposal. Anyway guys, I have a new one. It's pie in the sky as ever, but perhaps 30 years from now when the floodgates of transit spending finally open, something similar to this could possibly happen? They are two proposals but they kind of work well together.
And they're simple:
1) A shuttle. For those of you not familiar with NYC's system, there is a nice underground shuttle (basically a subway line) that runs back and forth between Grand Central Terminal and Times Square's station. How about the same concept, ie a subway 'shuttle', between Union Station and the Block 37 'superstation'? Just one route, no stops in between, going back and forth? Imagine this if an Airport express line develops, along with the future West Loop transit center. Both will be linked.
2) A second loop. Simply put, it runs underground and serves River North/Streeterville (with a stop at Navy Pier). It runs east and connects to the blue/brown/red lines, goes to Navy Pier, turns and runs north to Northwestern, turns west, again connects to the previously mentioned lines, and runs south using the existing blue line ROW.
If both plans are implemented, a suburbanite riding Metra into Union Station can hop on the shuttle to Block 37, switch to the red line up to the 'second loop' line and ride it east to his job as a Radiologist at Northwestern.
(disclaimer: all characters in this description are purely fictional and any similarities to real individuals are purely coincidental)
Any thoughts?> |
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