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Originally Posted by jpIllInoIs
Why would City/State spend spartan transit funds on an extension into Indiana let alone to Indiana casinos?? Resulting in exported $$ from the city and competition to the future city casino. There is no revenue sharing from those casino. This is not well thought out Sig and a surprise departure from your customary insightful posts.
A much much shorter and less expensive extension of the SoCHI branch to the SteelWorks area with or without a Chicago Casino/Hotel complex would deliver a FAR better ROI for the City/ST transit funds.
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Illinois would pay for the extension to Ewing Ave, and Indiana/the casinos would have to pay to extend past the state line, but they probably wouldn't pony up. But by itself, an extension to Ewing Ave probably isn't worth it (even though it would give the East Side and its 24,000 residents much better access to downtown compared to taking the bus to the current South Chicago terminal) without also extending to Whiting (and possibly East Chicago).
That's true that it would add competition to a city casino though, so that is indeed a problem!