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Originally Posted by the urban politician
I fully understand all that.
I'm just saying that if a subway stop here isn't built on day one, it's not the disaster that Emathias is predicting. You can still have a car light population here. Just because a subway stop is here doesn't mean people would use it for daily errands like groceries, etc, and commuting downtown is not easy by any measure by automobile. The best way to create a car light population is to have many resources available within walking distance.
I do hope they build the subway stop sooner than later, though
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Maybe, but are people going to want to be isolated from the rest of the city? They won't be able to go west in foot. Going east will be a challenge, too. Going south is easy, but there is a park between then and anything else, so the people at the North end might feel okay being transit-bound, but I don't think anyone else there would unless there is a subway stop. East Lincoln Park gets by with only busses because it has a ton of busses, 22/Clark, 36/Broadway, 151, 156, 143, 134, 8/Halsted, 37/Lincoln, and that's just the north south options. Unless the CTA makes changes (which I hope they will), the 78 will have 24/Wentworth on Clark and, on the other side of DP2, 29/State. That's a huge difference, and adding a route on the Wells-Wentworth Connector will probably happen, but it'll run, what, every ten minutes at best? Adding busses to Clark would be a challenge. But a lot of that goes away with the 15th Street station, especially since, when it's available, people prefer trains.
By "New York style" station I meant with no mezzanine, stairs down, fare control, right into the platform. I don't see why a station attendant needs to be at all entrances (plenty of stations have secondary entrances unmanned), and depending on how deep the tunnel is, digging slightly wider for stairs wouldn't be that hard. They're is also zero need to switch platforms at 15th, since there are no connections and if you missed your stop, you can switch back at Roosevelt or Cermak, both if which have center platforms. But my suggestion is really only valid if the trains are running just below the surface there, like they do on Broadway or Lexington in Manhattan.