Exactly what you want me to be writing about : the Crosstown Expressway. But. I love rapid transit the world over, and am always interested in the subject. So...
Plans yet again to do something up the train trax thast run from Ford City north to the Kennedy Expressway. The old Daley wanted to run an expressway up that corridor. Also plans to make it only a truckway, so that the crowding on the other expressways is eased. And the El.
Plan I like best is to put an El there. I'm sure some sort of vechicular travel will have to be put in there: the oil, gas, steel, rubber, concrete, and car corporations who run Congress will get their blood money first before they do anything for the 98% of the public. Once in awhile they actually do something that is good for the whole countryrather than the narrow .5% @ the top. Too much welfare (don't be shy about calling public subsidies welfare- call it what it is)goes to that sort of people.
However, a train line on the West side means Chicago can avoid the trap travellers in Chicago and NYC have right now : One HAS to go through Loop/Manhattan to go from one part of the city to the other. London and Paris are more comprehensive in that way. It would be a great option to travel up the West Side to hit the North Side.
Also, it always great when $$ is spent on the people. Yes, steel corporations will make a bundle on a rapid transit line. But we as a country just have to get away from that gas shit. Hopefully, leaders in our country will show some sort of patriotism and start cracking down on gas, car, etc companies..... by their actions, they have shown they really don't care about us.
Build it for the people. make sure its heavy into rapid transit. Then extend the Dan Ryan El from 95th (just peeking its nose into the South Side)all the way down to 130th. daley, yr [eople have been calling me looking for votes (ha ha ha ha).......show me you care about us people in the city.
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