This is the side of KZitem I get on and tell nobody about cause they wouldn’t understand me having a niche interest like the CTA Lmao
@MITdork
2 ай бұрын
Cta & metra dork here as well 🤪🤙
@WranghisKhan
2 ай бұрын
@@MITdork Can’t let my homies know about my fixation on CTA Busses, Trains, Routes, Rail Lines, and Stations that I’ve had since I was a little kid 😤🗿
@MITdork
2 ай бұрын
@@WranghisKhan they're not homies if you can't be yourself my man.. vest in those that invest in themselves.. 🤙😎
@WranghisKhan
2 ай бұрын
@@MITdork Realistically they’d support my interests. They think of me as the friend that knows fun facts about things they didn’t even think to have knowledge on so it all works out 😎
@highway2heaven91
2 ай бұрын
Don’t live in Chicago but if I did I’d tell everybody about this side of YT so I could raise awareness about transit and reduce car dependency.
@Frank71
2 ай бұрын
What you forget. The cta has cheaper fares than metra.
@amyhalverson533
2 ай бұрын
Thank you for making a video that is so detailed yet easy to understand.
@MITdork
2 ай бұрын
Outstanding delivery here my man.. im subscribed & set notifications.. (Lakeshore east condo owner here)
@SeanMasterPlayzYT
2 ай бұрын
The reason why the 103 and 106 are not combined is bc cta feel like every south side bus should stop at 95th and if the bus route are combined it would take way to long go to 95th and comeback which would be a like a 10 or 15 minute ride to comeback and continue service back on 103rd east to the garage
@InsideChicago
2 ай бұрын
Northside view on southside issue. Classic Chicago. I do like your takes on the new bus routes though.
@InsideChicago
2 ай бұрын
I do agree with your points on TOD. That is one of the major faliures in Chicago without a push for TOD the CTA will have a death spiral.
@Jackyliu009
2 ай бұрын
Well prepared for this project!
@AndrewRosales-y1h
2 ай бұрын
I work for Pace and can’t wait for the train to be extended and to learn new routes
@JamesZaraza-wv3gt
Ай бұрын
Someday the Lake Calumet area will be an incredible community rich in natural and cultural resources. Chicago is still transitioning to viewing riverfronts as an asset-with the Lincoln Yards project spurring conversations up north. However, it is much more exciting to see how southsiders put the north side to shame as Lake Calumet develops.
@StevenWWade
2 ай бұрын
It's worth it in the long run for prior reasons explained. My only gripe is was it really necessary to rebuild and expanded the 95th street Terminal to what it is now knowing it won't be the end point for the Red line in the next 5 years?
@LoveToday8
2 ай бұрын
I wish they would have done a few BRT routes on the Southside. It would be up running faster and it would be cheaper than the L extension
@bandelebid
2 ай бұрын
I grew up on the southside, but ended up finding my best jobs in the suburbs. My dream project is express Pace buses along 294.
@artofficialrecords7562
Ай бұрын
I think it's tragic that it has taken this long to extend the Red Line. There should've been a station in Calumet City years ago when River Oaks Mall was a major attraction.
@QuarioQuario54321
2 ай бұрын
With the proposed CTA/Pace Merger I expect some of these CTA and Pace routes would be combined
@beback_
2 ай бұрын
Cool that tierzoo has developed an interest in public transit
@SeanMasterPlayzYT
2 ай бұрын
do u ride trains or buses more @burjtransit
@mrAhollandjr
2 ай бұрын
The arguments in this video are totally flawed 1. Metra is a commuter service, nit a rapid transit line. Its fare system is totally different from CTA. METRA is primarily built to serve passengers going ti/from downtown and the southern suburbs. The reason for so many inner city stops are twifold. One, before 1969. L service only went as far as 69th Street. The Illinois Central Railroad was in business a half century beforehand. The second reason is a lot of the inner city stations were once suburban before the city annexed them. Alsi people who use the Red Line are not going downtown or going beyond downtown. Both make Metra Electric an invalid option as Metra isn't connected to CTA or itself. Ridership has proven that it predees the L service to the Metra service. Increasing Metra frequency will not solve the problem. The South Chicago branch can't match the express bus service available that parallels the branch. At least the Red Line is a proven commidity while Metra Electric has the largest decrease in ridership of all Metra Lines.
@BurjTransit
2 ай бұрын
My point was to turn the Blue island branch and the South Chicago branch into rapid transit lines, by extending the platforms and modernizing the signaling system. The ME mainline is quite well connected to the CTA with stops serving the majority of east west bus routes between 95th and 47th. If necessary, a station between 27th and 47th could be constructed. While Metra Electric doesn't directly connect to any L or Metra lines downtown, it's only a block from the loop and two blocks from the red line. An increase in frequency will result in an increase in ridership as we can see with Hyde Park where the combination of all three branches provides a frequency of about every 20 minutes, and ridership is quite high. While ridership on Metra electric has decreased quite significantly both before and after Covid, ridership on the Dan Ryan branch has also decreased quite a lot, so I would attribute the ridership decrease to population changes and changes in transit use as a whole rather than what service people choose to use.
@mrAhollandjr
2 ай бұрын
@@BurjTransit this has been proposed twice before and has gained zero traction because it doesn't make sense. Again, Metra is a commuter railroad, NOT a rapid transit line. The Blue Island branch is mostly single track from the mainline to its Blue Island terminal. Because Metra Electric is a RAILROAD, there are certain staffing requirements that federal law mandates which high frequencies would drive up labor costs significantly. This is something that doesn't plague CTA and we haven't discussed fares yet. The Gray Line was proposed by Mike Payne as an alternative to the Red Line South Rebuild back in 2013. CTA wasn't interested in becoming a railroad ( as this proposal had CTA taking over the branches and the local service from 115th north) nor was Metra interested in yielding any equipment or service to CTA. THE Gold Line was another doomed proposal that made zero sense. Increasing frequency will not increase ridership. CTA'S Englewood Jackson Park Howard service had better frequencies than the Lake Dan Ryan, but passengers overwhelmingly chose the Dan Ryan service over the Englewood Jackson Park service to the point that CTA switched the north ends of the routes to the current Red and Green Lines. Lastly Metra doesn't have the equipment necessary to run a high frequency service unless they cut the number of cars to two on the branches. Even then rush hour service could not be covered because of equipment and personnel shortages.. Remember Metra is a suburban commuter service and it still has to fulfill that obligation.
@aname8240
2 ай бұрын
@@mrAhollandjr In the message you're replying to Burjtransit said that his idea was to turn the two branches into rapid transit, which I'm guessing would mean they'd be operated as rapid transit subject to FTA regulation (and probably run by the CTA rather than metra?) and not be subject to the staffing requirements you're talking about. I'm not super familiar with the laws here but it just sounds a bit like you missed his point. I don't see how this would make less sense than the red line extension. It seems obvious that repurposing two existing rights of way with existing infrastructure and maybe buying some new equipment or moving existing equipment around would be much cheaper than building a whole new alignment with new infrastructure and property acquisition and everything, especially with the insane costs of transit projects in the US.
@mrAhollandjr
2 ай бұрын
@@aname8240 you are right. You are not familiar with laws or how things work. Metra and the NICTD ( which also uses the same teacks) are railroads. Metra, NICTD. Amtrak, and freight railroads operate under the same rules. CTA operates under different rules. CTA isn't nor doesn't want to be a railroad. You also can't mix the two. While they may both operate on the same embankment they must have separate right of way. The track gouges are different. The platforms are different. The equipment (fleets) are entirely different. It would be cost prohibited for Metra to operate a high frequency service with its equipment. CTA doesn't operate that type of equipment it would be more costly for them to try. Logistics don't allow for CTA to operate its own equipment. Like I said before. It's been proposed and dismissed at least three times with the first time being in the 60s as a replacement for the South Side Maine Line.
@packers4life998
2 ай бұрын
A bus to Harborside would be great I’m a work there
@austenwu16
2 ай бұрын
🔥video
@NybergCarl
2 ай бұрын
When Richie Daley tore down part of the Green Line, I had the insight that the political class and certain unions are far more interested in building and removing infrastructure than they are in creating and operating effective public transportation. Doing a Red Line extension instead of putting resources into improving Metra Electric service fits this pattern.
@adrianvarela2216
2 ай бұрын
Ngl i dont care abt metra as much as i do cta. I never been on a metra train but ig suburban people use it.
@carstarsarstenstesenn
2 ай бұрын
It's not only used by suburbans but I do think we (Chicago citizens) would use it more if it was actually frequent
@aname8240
2 ай бұрын
The fact nobody cares about metra is sort of the problem. There's no good reason a metra line can't provide sufficient frequency and service just as well as the L if there is demand for it, the fact that we're building an expensive L extension to meet that demand in an area with 2 metra lines shows we've kind of given up on metra having any initiative
@carstarsarstenstesenn
2 ай бұрын
Yes
@ITZ_JNS_JR
Ай бұрын
Y’all never thought about crime what if it comes up again again
@carstarsarstenstesenn
2 ай бұрын
Why propose for more mega developments when you can seen how poorly they're currently going. If Lincoln Yards and/or 78 were split up into smaller projects, they would have long been developed by now. Instead they've turned into money pits that won't see ground breaking until the 2030s, if ever.
@jimoconnor6382
2 ай бұрын
There's nothing left in Calumet City and those hillbillies in West Virssippi (Indiana) would freak out when people from Skokie would start showing up😮
@zipsexe
2 ай бұрын
wait... yeah this is definitely not bangkok
@DJMigrane
2 ай бұрын
I can get behind the transit oriented development but 20-story building? Considering Chicago's history regarding the south side at best it can be perceived as insensitive and at worst racist/classis a height of 5 to 6 stories is more palatable.
@taiwanarnold5927
2 ай бұрын
Waste of money us People stay in Morgan Park Beverly Roseland West Pullman most of us have cars period
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