Originally Posted by le_brew (Post 6949412)

it blows my mind that this is a decades long desire to fix the junction while not addressing that antiquated bottleneck called "the loop."

there are far more, and longer delays on several lines (too many) there.

Originally Posted by UPChicago (Post 6949491)

I agree, have there been any plans to fix the loop in the past?

Originally Posted by chicagopcclcar1 (Post 6949398)

http://bit.ly/FlyoverSwitch that 300+ million left could easily create a new Southside "L" service -- Improved transit services for both the North and Southsides,

That page was drawn by someone who has NO DEGREE IN RAILWAY ENGINEERING. He claims experience in locomotive driving; one might ask why he's not still a locomotive engineer and not working at a gas convenience store. Take that in account when you make your judgement.

Originally Posted by CTA Gray Line (Post 6949848)

Now notice the intense attempts to discredit me, my ideas, and my knowledge; something creepily psychological going on here ("Crabs-in-a-Barrel")

WHAT will Mike gain if I am sucessful? I sure won't get any money, Craig won't get any money. CTA and Metra would get it kicking-and-screaming shoved down their ever-resistant throats.

All this VITRIOL from an attempt to create Jobs -- WHAT A HEINOUS CRIME!!!

Originally Posted by chicagopcclcar1 (Post 6949945)

Your biggest error is taking whatever you pronounce as being the only truth and denouncing anyone who doesn't take your idea as being the one and only truth. I only came back because you brought up that idiot switch plan for Clack Junction. Your second mistake....moves to the branch must be made from track three, not from track four. You don't why because you are dealing something you know nothing about. And think about your first mistake.

> Good Grief -- Moves must be made from track 3 because that is the PRESENT track configuration. Didn't they just CHANGE the track configuration just North of Wilson, to route Purple Line trains onto the Red Line tracks? So track configurations actually can be CHANGED -- just like what my idiot switch concept depends on: https://app.box.com/s/alm8rzgfcotdmkaua9bbp6d73rlvkexk <

You said you live 25 miles from Chicago. At 25 miles, you can't vote on the runoff election in April. You probably will never ride the L" through Clark Jct. A prudent mind would want to know why you care to much.

> I've tried this before (you said use crayons) so I'll waste time again; I care because I lived on the Southside for 58yrs, and watch it drop from being the Jewel of the entire City, to the present sewer; with the poorest neighborhoods in NE Illinois: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/artic...income-levels#

I rode the I.C. to work, school, and other things for many, many years, so I know the system's HUGELY (criminally) unused potential, under it's preset ownership.

My Family and Friends are still trapped down in that sewer (with bullets flying all over the place day and night), while I get to live in beautiful, quiet, lovely "The Arboretum Village" (half-way to being Andy's Mayberry) so I am trying to do whatever I can as a lowly peasant to change that situation. (Hell -- you laugh at your OWN people's misfortunes: "use Crayons")

I am not going to resort to your childish name-calling; I lived at Lawrence & Kimball for 3.5 years, I moved there solely and specifically because of the convenience of taking the Brown Line to my Copier repair job, working for IBM downtown every day. I rode it twice every work day, and sometimes came home for lunch (4 times those on days) for over 3 years. I am completely familiar with day-to-day, weekend, holiday, Winter and Summer, end-to-end Brown Line operations (this is what happens when you open your mouth, and don't know what the heck you are talking about) <


"instead of 320 million: http://bit.ly/FlyoverSwitch that 300+ million left could easily create a new Southside "L" service ..."

"Chuy IS going to be elected, .....That is 480 Million Dollars, don't you think he'll arrange for a new CTA Planning Dept, with new ideas to spend it on?"

"....new Southside ...
THE GRAY LINE"

Never!

Originally Posted by UPChicago (Post 6950082)

Are you all adults? :???:

Originally Posted by chicagopcclcar1 (Post 6950196)

You would think.....

He takes a half a page explaining all the places he's lived it. Don't people have their own alderman, their legislators, their mayor, etc? Did these people ask him to look out for their fortunes. What is the hero's name in Marvel Comics?

Note, he never explained why Brown line needs to run from track 3. He go off talking about Red line weekend reroute as if that means something. Clueless.

Originally Posted by CTA Gray Line (Post 6950369)

The present configuration requires 3 different sets of points to be aligned, and then re-aligned after, for a Brown Line train to leave the NS Main: and it also has to operate at reduced speed to zig-zag through the crossovers without throwing passengers all over the place.

Originally Posted by UPChicago (Post 6950082)

Are you all adults? :???:

Originally Posted by k1052 (Post 6949567)

A plan to put the whole thing in subway was put forward decades ago but went nowhere.

Originally Posted by emathias (Post 6950575)

"chicagopcclcar1" and "CTA Gray Line"

I like both of you, and you've both previously added beneficially to the discussion on there.

Originally Posted by Randomguy34 (Post 6944464)

Not even the Dan Ryan Branch? Cermak-Chinatown and Sox-35th for sure are 10 cars long.

Originally Posted by CTA Gray Line (Post 6950403)

NO [ NO ] -- Apparently not, this seems to be a manifestation of third-grade school school-yard Bully stuff.

I don't know, as the victim -- how would you, UPChicago (as an ADULT) respond?

Originally Posted by Ryanrule (Post 6953780)

man fuck strollers.
you had a baby, you get to stay home for 5 years.
deal with it breeders.