Extending the Red Line south to the city’s border would serve as part of a continuing “racial reckoning” that is necessary to grapple with the “transit apartheid” that has led to decades of disinvestment on the South Side, said Lou Turner, a professor of urban and regional planning for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Yep, it amazes me how many Southsiders are arrested for criminal acts perpetrated on the North side.
The Red Line is more aptly a “criminal conveyance system.”
ron
3 years ago
The original intent was to bring south-siders to the loop for the abundant number of jobs,but now these jobs have disappeared. So cancel this obsolete proposal now.
The Railroader
3 years ago
So you can’t afford the routes you have. Solution?
Build more route miles you can’t afford to run and maintain.
Ain’t politicians grand? I’m sure several grand will go directly to their friends and pals.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
There are too many miscreants from where the Red line exists on the South side, riding now.
Yep, it amazes me how many Southsiders are arrested for criminal acts perpetrated on the North side.
The Red Line is more aptly a “criminal conveyance system.”
The original intent was to bring south-siders to the loop for the abundant number of jobs,but now these jobs have disappeared. So cancel this obsolete proposal now.
So you can’t afford the routes you have. Solution?
Build more route miles you can’t afford to run and maintain.
Ain’t politicians grand? I’m sure several grand will go directly to their friends and pals.