Comments on: Who Stole the ‘L’ Stop at Washington/State?

By: Nathanael

Nathanael — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:39:38 +0000

It sounds like, given stop spacing, the following would be appropriate:
(1) Interconnect Clark/Lake and State/Lake with an in-system pedestrian walkway. (Use the Chicago Tunnel System tunnels?) This provides the northside interconnection for commuters.
(2) Profit

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Happy Birthday to Me: Four Years of CHICAGO CARLESS — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:19:56 +0000

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By: Christine

Christine — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:09:28 +0000

Ms. Bea Haven, the Wellington stop is still on the map and according to all accounts is scheduled to open this summer. I think if that project had also been mothballed, it would have been taken off the map as well, but it’s still there.

Thanks for the information, Mike. Last spring I had the pleasure of going to a lunch where Ron Huberman spoke about fixing “bus bunching” and rather pie in the sky ideas about bus stops. I always wondered how buses got top priority when work on L stations had stalled or completely stopped (I hadn’t seen workers at the Washington stop for over three months at that point.) Maybe he should have diverted the money from the Gum Busters to the L project.

By: Ms. Bea Haven

Ms. Bea Haven — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:52:34 +0000

I was just thinking about this AM as I was riding to work, Mike. Do you think that maybe they are just waiting to reveal to the world another of Al Capone’s Secret Vaults?

P.S. The Brown Line Wellington stop disappeared too. Since it was younger than the Washington stop, I think it just ran away to join the other punky youth that hang around The Alley.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:30:09 +0000

Ah, but Mike–it is kind of the city’s fault we stopped shopping on State Street. This is probably before your time here, but State was closed to vehicular traffic from 1979 until the early 90s. It was a disaster for stores downtown. I don’t quite get why since I don’t drive and you couldn’t pay me to drive into the Loop, park, and shop, but it was. Here’s the first news story I found in a Google search about it:

http://tinyurl.com/akqdh2