^I think you mean Wells & Lake, and I agree it's nice.

http://www.ktransit.com/transit/NAme...-090111-01.jpg

Well I meant more of the interior of the station before they fixed the place a bit. It originally looked like the stereotypical grimy, shady subway station.

OK, now I'm confused. What subway station are you talking about?

I was talking about the Lasalle Blue Line station. I don't know what the Wells/Lake entrance looks like on the inside, maybe it is more shady than Lasalle and I just didn't know it. Sorry for confusing you there.

http://www.transitchicago.com/assets...sonent_tt2.jpg

weird place to put the LED as youre going to have people pausing on the stairs to get updates. seems it would make more sense to place it outside the entrance.

The display is big enough to read while in motion—and all that glass means you don't even have to be head-on. The benefit is to all the people who can avoid running down the stairs fearing they'll miss the train.

The other subway stations they've added screens to, there's screens on both sides -- so you could see the approaching times as you come toward the stairs from either direction.

Yeah, that's probably what will happen here. I really hope these screens don't display ads, or people WILL pause on the stairs

People stand around on the stairs at Chicago Av RL for no reason. The nightmare has come true!

Oh they have a reason, it just isn't mass transit.

CTA narrows possible routes for proposed CTA Red Line expansion
 

http://www.suntimes.com/26869554-418...l#.U04zAVVdX9Q

BY FRAN SPIELMAN AND ROSALIND ROSSI Staff Reporters April 15, 2014 10:04PM

The 95th Street station is now the end of the Red Line. That station is due for a major renovation,
and the CTA is looking at routes to extend the Red Line to 130th Street.....

I still wish that the Gold Line on Transit Future featured to branches to show how redundant it is for the Red Line to extend alongside the Bishop Ford. I would much rather prefer it to extend alongside Halsted.

$2 billion for 5 miles? why not just build it as a subway down Halsted?

I would rather spend 2 billion on an Ashland subway or circle line.!

No kidding. $2 billion for a 5 mile elevated extension of an existing hline? In an existing right-of-way? That's exorbitant. Everything involving transit in this country has such incomprehensibly bloated costs.

NO "Everything" doesn't -- The same thing could be accomplished for a fraction of the cost, and I'm tired of trying.

Y O U All Elect them, and YOU'RE getting just what YOU deserve.......

CTA to redo 4 North Side Red Line stations

Jon Hilkevitch - Tribune - April 16, 2014


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...,6118418.story

^^^^^^ Awesome news! I just wonder why they never want to somewhat enclose these platforms...its not like we live in a warm weather city, some sort of wind break would be nice! Albeit i am only going off the renders.

Time to re-extend the green line to Stony Island.

^ Good idea, lets spend $40 million and 5 years planning that