I'm excited that some people are keeping the Kennedy cap dream alive. I do think the city missed a huge opportunity to plan in advance for the cap as part of the Circle Interchange work. Really no decent park can ever be built there unless IDOT radically reduces the number of on-ramps. I guess you could build the park as a "flying carpet" one level above street level, but you'd still need to climb a 25' flight of steps to get up to it, there would be limited access points and security challenges, etc.
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Originally Posted by Busy Bee
Man those are elevated electric railways. What you are advocating is a 20 foot bunny hill over a very short distance to be traversed by lumbering diesel locomotives hauling a few hundred thousand pounds a few blocks from a terminal. That's no way to run a railroad.
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It's not a bunny hill, it would simply be an extension of the existing viaduct west of Ogden (which will have to eventually be changed to eliminate the congested A-2 interlocking).
Anyway, not to get too technical.