Never really thought about how horrific it would've been to have ohare being a thru line station rather than a terminal. The congestion of the people coming from Schaumburg thru O'Hare would require INSANE amounts of remodeling outside of what would've been expected and on top of that there would either be extremely packed cars (especially given how packed the blue line can be normally) or frequent delays due to adding more running trains on the line that would destroy reliability on the line getting you anywhere in a timely manner. That would require them beefing up the entire line at least to downtown which we know they are not gonna do. A solution could be making it it's own dedicated line that could use ohare as a terminus along side the blue line and transfer but even then the congestion would still be bad
Hey there. It’s a cool train. It’s called a Star Line. What if it was called Starliner train or the new Metra Northwest Central Service. You could plan on having a video about a new propose commuter train from Mundeline through Hawthorn Woods and Lake Zurich Stations to downtown Chicago or south to Joliet. It would be a cool idea.
I worked for the EJ&E started in 2004 and I remember seeing a couple of director specials for this planned line. But I got to say now with the J being owned by the CN I would say that this is a dead plan especially since the CN now runs most of it's freight traffic on the line and in fact we are extending Sutton Siding south all the way to Spaulding. Plus with this line if Metra was to have service on it something would of needed to be done with all of the diamonds that the J crosses that would make their dream of trains every 15 minutes during rush hour very hard to keep on time.
Chicagoland is in DIRE need of rail transit expansion, especially Metra.
This would’ve been amazing
Never really thought about how horrific it would've been to have ohare being a thru line station rather than a terminal.
The congestion of the people coming from Schaumburg thru O'Hare would require INSANE amounts of remodeling outside of what would've been expected and on top of that there would either be extremely packed cars (especially given how packed the blue line can be normally) or frequent delays due to adding more running trains on the line that would destroy reliability on the line getting you anywhere in a timely manner. That would require them beefing up the entire line at least to downtown which we know they are not gonna do.
A solution could be making it it's own dedicated line that could use ohare as a terminus along side the blue line and transfer but even then the congestion would still be bad
Hey there. It’s a cool train. It’s called a Star Line. What if it was called Starliner train or the new Metra Northwest Central Service. You could plan on having a video about a new propose commuter train from Mundeline through Hawthorn Woods and Lake Zurich Stations to downtown Chicago or south to Joliet. It would be a cool idea.
I fully believe that the CN buyout of the EJ&E was the largest nail in the STAR Line coffin.
I worked for the EJ&E started in 2004 and I remember seeing a couple of director specials for this planned line. But I got to say now with the J being owned by the CN I would say that this is a dead plan especially since the CN now runs most of it's freight traffic on the line and in fact we are extending Sutton Siding south all the way to Spaulding. Plus with this line if Metra was to have service on it something would of needed to be done with all of the diamonds that the J crosses that would make their dream of trains every 15 minutes during rush hour very hard to keep on time.
How about buses. Get a couple of coach buses and make a dedicated bus lane and have stops at stations that connect to cta pace or metra