Metra and South Shore are all one single color despite those systems also (like the CTA) having separate colors for their lines. If the CTA's separate colors are displayed, why not Metra's? This also happens in other cities all over the world so just a general question as to how they choose what lines to show the color of.
I have yet to see any updates, construction progress, or even any renderings yet for a project allegedly opening next year.
They're such a good deal that i can't imagine they make much off of them
With 4 daily departures to Chicago and 4 in various other westbound directions, I cant find many small towns that have anywhere near as much service that aren't also within an existing metro region.
Imagine naming stations "Tukwila Parkway" or "Kingston Parkway".
I understand much of it was for the feds to build the interstate, but all the light industrial land where homes used to sit still remains privately owned. Is it the same with all the housing rows around Laurel Park? Was it just auctioned off? Did the original property owners at least get a chance to buy it back?
I can't find many new builds in American downtowns that don't take up at least half the block. It seems the traditional way of building main streets with varying architectural styles over generations has been replaced with cheap-looking, whole block construction. So i have to ask, why did individuals stop buying and building their homes and businesses on 40ft street frontages and why is density almost entirely built at the whole-block scale now?
Did nobody who worked on it ever consider the possibility of through service from Ft Collins to Colorado Springs? The terminal layout limits capacity and makes southbound trains have to go through a complex reverse or wrap around procedure just to pull in.
Do i get a free concrete mixer or do i need to earn it? Why can't i click it?
From Santa Monica to Miami, many of these historic downtowns are eerily vacant. It's not like there's no activity in these places either, it's all just mostly concentrated around new luxury developments or tourist traps. The historic wall-to-wall pre-war commercial buildings are usually the ones sitting dead and vacant. I've heard people say that this is due to the investors who own the buildings jacking up the rents to compete with the newer luxury developments while pricing out the original businesses that were there. Now that the old businesses have left tho, there's not enough demand for high end stores to fill the vacant storefronts and the investors don't want to lower rent and,in turn, lower their property value. How much of this is true though? Is there any studies or research into this matter? And are there any other reasons so many of our few walkable downtowns in large cities are as vacant as they are?
Will they run service to WS as a shuttle from SODO or a branch of line 1 or a whole new Line 3 from Lynwood to Alaska Junction?
Love me some TOD but there still is too much parking
Since the Red Line station at that location probably wouldn't be built due to the huge price tag, why not build a Metra station to at least provide some rail transit access to the massive development? Especially since they will start to use BEMU FLIRTS on that line soon, the stop spacing wouldn't be too short. The station also would be much cheaper than a CTA station since it wouldn't need to be underground.
I was incredibly depressed for like 2 years and decided to travel the world with no plans on coming back. Being dropped off at the airport, I genuinely had no intentions of ever seeing my parents again. I all but cut them off and didn't update really anyone. Now this depression lasted throughout my travels but only by mid-December did I start to feel un-depressed again. Not necessarily happy, but living without the weight of depression on my back. I eventually decided to talk to my parents again and go home to find myself living the same life I used to live but without the depression part of it. Something feels missing tho. I miss feeling depressed. I miss being so unfathomably depressed that the only way to let myself feel anything was through self harm. I miss that feeling and it's almost like I'm manifesting being depressed again. Im not happy and im not sad- I'm nothing. But not the nothing I was when I was depressed; more like a nothing. A true nothing. I want to feel sad again. I want to spend my nights fantasizing how my family would react to my death. Idek.
These trains used to be the fastest in the world back in the 1950s and could cover the distance between Chicago and St Paul over half an hour quicker than driving. With new faster equipment and minor track upgrades, we could potentially get Chicago to St Paul in under five hours which would be game changing. Right now, the Borealis is one of the strongest routes in the country which shows there's enough demand between these cities- now make it not only faster than driving, but almost competitive to flying and you've got a successful Amtrak route. The views along the Mississippi would be pretty sweet too.