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Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright
Wait, how much are they spending on this flyover again??? That $320 million would be better spent just building another leg of Brown Line track straight east along Wilson and connecting the Brown to the Red at a new Wilson station rebuild. It's only a 1 mile gap, they are paying $423/mile for the Red Line Extension. So for another $100 million we could get an entirely new section of track that would tie into another major construction project we have to do anyhow, instead of gutting a large swath of one of the most vibrant neighborhoods in the city.
Think of how absurd that is. We could just have grade level junctions in both intersections and start running every other Brown Line Train onto the far North Side. Maybe we could even open the door for possible crazy connections like a Purple Line to O'Hare Route with another Brown Line extension to Jeff Park. For that matter, I am going to have to demand that they do something like that instead. It's absolutely absurd how much money the CTA throws at piss ant projects when they could expand capacity elsewhere while still increasing inter connectivity in the system.
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I'd like to see the community meetings where running a new elevated structure down Wilson is proposed. It would be better than HBO.