The decision to build a new Morgan Street station on the Green Line is baffling - the Halsted stop was closed in the '90s. It still seems to me that Halsted is a better transit interchange.
WayOutWardell Wrote:
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> The decision to build a new Morgan Street station
> on the Green Line is baffling - the Halsted stop
> was closed in the '90s. It still seems to me that
> Halsted is a better transit interchange.
Harpo Studios, right there. And when Oprah sells the building, the new owner has ready access.
I worked two blocks west of there, from 2007 to 2010.
Regarding low-usage closures, one might question why the elevated was left intact from the south State Street Subway portal to Wabash and Van Buren. Having an extra access line would be the most logical reason, but then that might also have argued for leaving the Logan Square L in place to Lake, and connecting into Paulina Junction from the north/
the_mogra Wrote:
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> CTA in the '70s closes old Cermak 'L' stop on the
> greenline, citing 'low useage'. right.
>
> almost 40 years later they rebuild that Cermak
> stop and reopen - now things are different.
> right.
>
> I recall the Grand Ave stop on the blueline subway
> went through the same metamorphosis in the early
> '90s. right.
>
> If one wants to point out an extreme example the
> new Oakton stop on the yellow line had a previous
> life too.
>
> Understanding all this by you/me takes an acute
> perception of bureaucratic agency nonsense. It's
> not all about the money, it's just what people
> want to do and will foist on you at various points
> in time.
One thing they need at the Grand Avenue stop is a new stairway on the SW corner of Halsted and Grand, so you can come up to the EB. bus stop.
I totally agree about the need for another Grand Ave station entrance.
"one might question why the elevated was left intact from the south State Street Subway portal to Wabash and Van Buren." - yes, the CTA did something right for a change, didn't they? That elevated portion went unused for years, was it from late-'40s / early-'50s to 1970 when the Dan Ryan tracks first opened? Or maybe the old North Shore line used them (for storage?), or a portion of them, up to 1963 when they tanked.
the_mogra Wrote:
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> I totally agree about the need for another Grand
> Ave station entrance.
>
> "one might question why the elevated was left
> intact from the south State Street Subway portal
> to Wabash and Van Buren." - yes, the CTA did
> something right for a change, didn't they? That
> elevated portion went unused for years, was it
> from late-'40s / early-'50s to 1970 when the Dan
> Ryan tracks first opened? Or maybe the old North
> Shore line used them (for storage?), or a portion
> of them, up to 1963 when they tanked.
The CNS&M in fact did use them for storage. They berthed their cars south of Roosevelt, just above the south portal of the State Street Subway. I remember seeing them up until they ended service in 1963, when we took the L up to Lakeview to visit my grandparents.
During those years I never saw train cars on them. As I said it's a good thing the CTA hesitated in their usual rush to dismantle (as I see it, they weren't absolutely necessary for equipment move purposes, you could accomplish the same thing via ravenswood tracks)
It's the Metra North Central Line. I am looking at it out of my office window. There are stops both in Rosemont (at Balmoral) and at O'Hare Transfer, just south of Higgins Road.
Dunning1 Wrote:
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> It's the Metra North Central Line. I am looking
> at it out of my office window. There are stops
> both in Rosemont (at Balmoral) and at O'Hare
> Transfer, just south of Higgins Road.
Ok, now all we need to do is figure a way to connect it to the "superstation" under Block 37, and electrify it!