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Originally Posted by thegoatman
is it racism or using common sense? Watched this video of Dorval Carter talking about the extension and not once did he bring up statistics on why it would make sense. Just said a bunch of woke buzzwords. "inclusivity" "diversity" etc..the far southside is basically suburbia, all 4 of the new stations are gonna be fucking park and rides. How about and L extension to Humboldt (an actual dense area) or a brown blue line connection? Or if we still wanna extend the red line, how about extending it to the south lakefront? An actual dense area lacking CTA connection.
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It’s no use to complain now.
The Federal Government doesn’t exactly shift funds from one project to another in a timespan less than a few decades, and the Red Line extension has been in the works for a long long time.
The city chose the wrong project back then, but it’s either this or a useless trolley in Baltimore or something. There’s a strong chance the Red Line is truly the best of a group of bad eligible proposals.
And I’m not exactly going to be up in arms over federal government money and South Red Line neighborhood TIF.
Oh well, maybe the Chicagoans in year 2100 will have more need for the extension.