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Originally Posted by kolchak
Great I agree. I suspect that that underground station will have to expand to meet growing ridership needs at some point. It's not a big one by any stretch.
Does anyone here know if expansion is at all on the horizon?
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I haven't heard anything, although the City has been steadily rebuilding subway stations one at a time. They've done more Red Line ones than Blue Line ones, but I think they'll need to start doing the Blue Line ones soon. With the Red Line they did the Loop tunnel, then Chicago, then Harrison, then Grand, then Clark/Division. If they do something similar with the Blue Line they'd probably start with Grand and then Chicago and then Division. Which probably means at least ten years and maybe closer to fifteen before they get to Division unless the Democrats regain enough influence in Washington to both prevent the Republicans from destroying all transit funding, and actually increase funding for such things.
Grand, Chicago and Division on the Blue Line have all had some significant TOD recently so in a perfect world they'd probably all get rebuilt at the same time. But ain't no perfect world out there ...