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Circumferential lines should cross the spokes when the spokes are carrying the most passengers, not out near the end of the lines.

Hey there. It’s a cool train. It’s called a Star Line. What if it was called Starliner train or the new Metra Northwest Central Service. You could plan on having a video about a new propose commuter train from Mundeline through Hawthorn Woods and Lake Zurich Stations to downtown Chicago or south to Joliet. It would be a cool idea.

I fully believe that the CN buyout of the EJ&E was the largest nail in the STAR Line coffin.

they can do it the way boston does it give it the UP then the destination so UP joliet line or metra electric south west university park

Great video as always, Chicago definitely needs more orbital transit. But I think if you look at the bus ridership, where demand seems to be highest for orbitals already is closer to the city core, with the highest ridership being along Halsted. I think that's a better bet, but Ashland, Pulaski, or Western would also be good ideas.

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I worked for the EJ&E started in 2004 and I remember seeing a couple of director specials for this planned line. But I got to say now with the J being owned by the CN I would say that this is a dead plan especially since the CN now runs most of it's freight traffic on the line and in fact we are extending Sutton Siding south all the way to Spaulding. Plus with this line if Metra was to have service on it something would of needed to be done with all of the diamonds that the J crosses that would make their dream of trains every 15 minutes during rush hour very hard to keep on time.

The coal should have been CNAOK with loads to Oak Creek

If you were to give it a colour, which one would you give it?

If apple had a train station

Wow what a cool station!

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the chassis was an SD40-2 and an FP45 body shell added with ditch lights, mars lights, Marker lights.

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This would’ve been amazing

Heres an interesting idea as well. Extend Green Line Ashland/63rd to midway. Combined with this idea you get a full circle.

Chicagoland is in DIRE need of rail transit expansion, especially Metra.

See them everyday. Engineers loved them.

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175 before the NW wrap looked so cool!

absolutely, connecting blue and brown would be great. running rush hour browns to ohare would be great.one thing id like to see out of it is being able to dispatch some brown line trains from rosemont, as kimball yard is at capacity, and if you add length without adding trains it will reduce frequency. the problem with that is the blue line trains use different sign curtains than the brown and orange line trains. so you would have to convert cars specifically for brown line runs from rosemont. and then you wouldnt be able to just quickly switch them back to blue as needed. maybe once more 7000s arrive it would be feasible, and i believe converting 3200s is easier than 2600s. i havent had to mess with the signs on a 3200 yet, they just work, its great.

Im a conductor on this line. Would be neat to see the crew on the platform giving the high ball.

Don’t like it! Milwaukee sub is dying because of PSR

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The subway choice would be best. This allows the catchment area served to be very compact around stations along Cicero and its intersections with other East-west thoroughfares. Boring tunneling technology is maturing and it is only going to get better. To avoid the graft infrastructure projects in the US face up until now, the RTA (or IDOT or CDOT) should simply by its own boring machines, hire workers to operate them and competent their tasks, and then at most competitively bid for consultant contractors for advising the project (to the extent such knowledgeable boring and infrastructure construction supervisors and managers can’t be economically hired outright). For such a major project, we should also be looking into maglev technology like Transraoid and china’s nascent technology for the project. Maglev is costly upfront, but its operating costs are lower, and maintenance is dramatically lower because of the solid state nature of the technology, with no friction or moving parts. Eventually, we might look to rebuilding existing rapid transit and commuter lines with such rapid transit maglev and then allow for a diversity of routes moving from one radial line to the crosstown rim and then to another radial line. With a high initial investment in fixed assets and such very low operating and maintenance costs, as we get with rapid transit maglev, the most efficient use is very high frequency (up to levels with still safe headways) and highly diverse routes. This is the sort of vision infrastructure planning should bring is rather than just more of the same traffic congestion car-centered dystopia we have gotten so far (from for example, the Chicago Area Transportation Study-CATS).

I have been advocating in YT comments for a Cicero line for awhile and love the thought, but I'd turn it into an Outer Loop - North, I'd turn to follow Lawrence w/ connection to Kimball 🟤 Ravenswood Metra, and Lawrence 🔴. South, I'd bring it across 95th w/ multiple Metra connections & 95th 🔴 ending at S Chi 93rd Metra (there's also a RR ROW along 95th E of Dan Ryan). Lawrence would connect N Shore to ORD via Montrose 🔵 and alleviate heavy traffic on Lawrence. 95th would provide E/W ties to 95th 🔴 and connect S Shore to MDW.

This is a really great idea. I feel light rail would be a better fit on this corridor.

I like your proposal for the most part. However, it leaves out the South Side. Perhaps after the Midway-Jefferson Park portion is built, the line could be extended southeast to connect with Metra lines at 79th/Kedzie and 87th/Vincennes, then the Red Line at 95th/State, finally terminating at the Metra Electric at 111th St in Pullman. I know this "pie in the sky," but one can dream.

Cicero is too tight a road and too far west. Western Ave is a better choice. Also it doesn't need to be a full heavy metro compatible with the L. Light rail would work well with the likely passenger load. Use grade separation sparingly to jump over major intersections, crossing barriers for the rest. Operating speeds of ~45 mph are possible with adequate protection. Irving Park Road could host a similar build. The Belt Railway is in heavy use by freight trains. Take it over for a moderate demand transit line and that's a lot of new trucks on the road for not that many cars off the road. It is a wide corridor and could accommodate a transit line with a careful design, but the major railroad users are very uncooperative. Just because it's "already there" doesn't mean it's worth the bother to build out.

Far too west. Building along Western serves a much larger population. The Circle Line proposal numbers were already pushing the cost/benefit ratio.

I grew up in Glenview and watched many Milwaukee Road trains stop there. Once my parents took me on the Hiawatha to Milwaukee for my 10th birthday. What an adventure! I also have a dim memory of a steam locomotive coming through, maybe around 1953, but maybe I was just dreaming.

I used to live in Oak Park and work near O'Hare. A pain to drive, so I took, if I remember correctly, three connecting bus lines (including Pace) to do it. It was a pain in the butt because if I missed one of the buses, which happened the first week I tried this, I was stranded for an hour. So I switched to taking the Green line all the way downtown, then transferring to the Blue line - or, sometimes, just taking the Blue line from Oak Park - then catching a bus at Rosemont, or taking it all the way to O'Hare and catching a bus there. Also a pain in the butt, and it took so long. A crosstown connector line would have been an improvement, but still a bit of a pain - three trains and a bus. And I hated that job.

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What about Mt Greenwood, Oak Park, and Evergreen Park?

If you go even more south on the cicero line at 95th a short walk and you would be at metra Oakawn station. And a multitude of bus routes at midway orange line

Subways in Chicago specifially are the least feasible option due to Chicago's (lack of) soil at deeper levels.

I was there!

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Building this line would spur some development along the corridor, but also consider that this line would pass near the heavily populated Austin neighborhood so ridership may not be a large issue. I would also imagine some travelers would use this line to go between O'Hare and Midway airports.

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You would want this to connect a second time to the blue line for a more direct connection to O'Hare, western Chicagoans would not have to go all the way downtown just to go back northwest and you would not have to use that secluded Metra stop (Metra North Central Line terminating at Antioch), on the east side of the parking garage at the airport train endstation to get into the various terminals, although you still could if you wanted a faster approach to the international terminal.

Essentially you want another Lake St style L lmao

If I-494 had been built, this line would probably already exist.

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A Cicero Ave. rapid transit line should access the rights of way of the Kenton Sub and the Cragin Industrial Lead. The initial operating segment should run from Jefferson Park to the north to Midway Airport to the south. Later, a southern extension should be built to Ford City, and continuing on to either the Oak Lawn Southwest Service station at 95th St. and 52nd Av. or a new Southwest Service station at Cicero Av. (approx. 93rd Pl.) Whenever possible, CTA rapid transit lines should locate their outer termini at or very near a Metra station, with that Metra line serving as a collector and disbursal point, increasing travel options.

AGREED. I'd also hugely appreciate some BRT to improve west/east connection. Going from the far north to O'Hare is a nightmare, because you HAVE to go to the loop and then take the Blue line northwest.