{"id":6959,"date":"2013-04-10T23:49:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T03:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=6959"},"modified":"2013-04-10T23:49:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T03:49:28","slug":"a-taste-of-south-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=6959","title":{"rendered":"A Taste of South Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

I remember as a young child in the 1960s reading a magazine (popular science?) touting the urban planning idea that as cities started building freeways, it would be a clever idea to put mass transit trains in between the two sides of the freeway. If you’ve ever driven through Chicago on the freeways, you can’t miss them. <\/p>\n

The Dan Ryan was the poster child for this concept – the Red Line runs South from the Loop out to 95th street. It has had significant suburban ridership from people willing to ride a “safe” train through the south side of Chicago to avoid the hassle of parking downtown.<\/p>\n

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But the South Side already had “L” trains – they run from the loop down to 59th street – one branch then heads east toward the Site of the World’s fair on the lake (much of which has been torn down). The Western Branch goes over the Dan Ryan below and ends at 63rd and Ashland. The South ChicagoRapid Transit company built what is now the CTA Green Line in 1893 to reach the World’s fair. Mass production automobiles didn’t exist yet. Electric powered streetcars were brand new.<\/p>\n

The Dan Ryan is 50 years old and worn out. The daily ridership is 50,000 – the State of Illinois is closing the Dan Ryan tracks for 5 months to do a complete $480 million rehab (mostly Federal Obama Bucks of course. That works out to about $9000 in capital expense for each daily rider.<\/p>\n

In order to have any service, the CTA is spending $20 million in temporary repairs to try to lift the slow zones that limit the green line to barely above walking speed.<\/p>\n

It’s not hard to see why people find Jesus on the Green Line<\/p>\n

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It’s worth mentioning that the Illinois Central and Rock Island Metra lines serve the same area – but you never want to let federal handout go to waste!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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