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Re: Why was 179th St/Jamaica 13 years late? |
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Posted by randyo on Mon Jan 5 16:37:47 2009, in response to Re: Why was 179th St/Jamaica 13 years late?, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Mon Jan 5 10:07:49 2009. Not being up on local Chicago politics, I can't say for certain if any one individual can be said to be responsible for the expansion of the Chicago transit sytem combined with highway construction of the 1950s. That being said, I have a video called "Streamlining Chicago" which was made as a film in the early 1940s describing the expansion plans for the Chicago transit system which also included construction of new highways with rapid transit ROWs in their center medians. At the time the city of Chcago had an agecy called the "Department of Subways and Superhighways" which was to oversee the construction of new highways and subway lines and the coordination between the two. The first of these projects was the construction of the Congress St Expressway which along with providing a new automotive access route, allowed relocation of the Garfield Park El into the Highway median. Other similar projects followed ahich not only provided new Highways such as the Kennedy and Dan Ryan but also supplied rapid transit service to areas that had not previously had rapid transit service. If Moses had not been so vehemently anti mass transit, similar projects could have been constructed along the LI Expway, the Grand Central Pky and the Van Wyck Expwy, just to name a few, at a far smaller expense than subway construction. Other urban areas such as LA, DC, and Baltimore have rapid transit lines in highway medians and these operations have been highly successful. New York, the alleged "greatest city in the world" is fast losing that designation and thanks to the greedy self serving excuses for politcal leaders will soon lose it completely. |
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