Right church, wrong pew: Chicagoland’s subterranean future – that, no fooling, would also facilitate Union Station-O’Hare travel times of 30 minutes or less entirely on existing infrastructure – is actually #BuildTheTunnel.

Learn more at buildthetunnelchicago.org

This is a #BuildTheTunnel post actually

In addition to building up, we also need to build down. Thru-running regional rail could transform all of northeastern Illinois, especially on Chicago’s South Side and working-class communities throughout Cook County.

It’s time to #BuildTheTunnel.

🔗 buildthetunnelchicago.org

Regional rail map with CrossTowners, highlighted with existing infrastructure

Wow, I think we should #BuildTheTunnel
(Spoiler alert: we’ve already built like 96% of it)

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but this GIF is worth close to 3,000. Or at least that's how long this recent Substack post to describe it ended up being. #BuildTheTunnel starlinechicago.substack.com/p/a-regional...

📍 Addison/Lincoln
#BuildTheTunnel

📍 Chicago/Halsted (Bally's)
#BuildTheTunnel

CrossTowners CrossTowners, or “regional rail”, are a vision to unlock Chicagoland by using our existing passenger rail infrastructure more efficiently for all-day service.

Learn more about CrossTowner regional rail and why we need to #BuildTheTunnel: buildthetunnelchicago.org

In other words, if we go full quagmire/energy supply crisis in the Middle East, it'll only take about 14 months for Illinois taxpayers to pay the same premium in gas prices as the tunnel would cost.

How can we afford regional rail? On the contrary, how can we afford *not* to #BuildTheTunnel?

The average Illinoisian buys just under one gallon of gas a day.

The CrossTowner regional rail vision has a base price estimate of just under $10 billion.

If gas holds steady at $2/gal higher now than a month ago, it'd only take about 431 days for Illinois drivers to pay enough to #BuildTheTunnel.

CrossTowners CrossTowners, or “regional rail”, are a vision to unlock Chicagoland by using our existing passenger rail infrastructure more efficiently for all-day service.

No new content (yet) but we now have a much easier domain to remember when you’re looking for the #BuildTheTunnel homepage: buildthetunnelchicago.org

worldbusinesschicago.com/horizon-lines/ @starlinechicago.bsky.social #buildthetunnel

- create a cross-city regional rail connection through downtown Chicago #BuildtheTunnel
- separate Metra trains from freight traffic and electrify the lines
- eliminate all slow zones on the L
- automate the the Blue Line
- build enough housing near transit to support millions more people

Photo of the top of a shiny metal train with a pantagraph connecting to electrical wires. A sliver of Open Sky and some tall buildings catching late afternoon light are visible.

Photo looking along a train platform with a shiny Metra train to the left and electrical wires, overhead and a sky that is pale grayish blue with sunset.

Racine, Wisconsin to O'Hare multimodal facility by car: ~1.5 hours
O'Hare multimodal to South Shore by transit: 2 hours, at rush hour, NOT counting the 30-min wait for a train that I used to leisurely drop things at my office.
#buildthetunnel

📍 O’Hare Transfer
#BuildTheTunnel

CrossTowner regional rail diagram showing CRCL Plan improvements

Wow, I think we should #BuildTheTunnel

i forgot that the actual tag is “#buildthetunnel”
i need them (the powers that be) to #buildthetunnel last year so that more men can fight in the name of my womanhood.

📍 Taylor/Clinton
#BuildTheTunnel

Better things are possible. We’re building out our battery of #BuildTheTunnel resources to make the case to decision-makers, the future NITA board, and friends and neighbors throughout northeastern Illinois. Dive in and share to help us unlock Chicagoland’s potential with CrossTowner regional rail.

📍 59th (University of Chicago)
#BuildTheTunnel

Rail transit network map showing potential CrossTowner regional rail lines

It’s now 3am, I think we should #BuildTheTunnel

CrossTowner regional rail network diagram showing 2034sight + CRCL Plan improvements

Beat the pump, #BuildTheTunnel

Revisiting ONE Central One megaproject deserves another.

I fear I'm getting dangerously close to making an economic argument to #BuildTheTunnel

Revisiting ONE Central One megaproject deserves another.

Regional rail is the megaprojects’ megaproject: a smart, effective way to leverage targeted public improvements in order to unlock billions of dollars in private-sector investment throughout the entire region, all by changing the way we use infrastructure we (mostly) already have. #BuildTheTunnel

#BuildTheTunnel @starlinechicago.bsky.social

📍 Roosevelt
#BuildTheTunnel

#BUILDTHETUNNEL

#BuildTheTunnel

#BuildTheTunnel means a train to Arlington Park every 15 minutes on game day, just saying

Late night CrossTowner #BuildTheTunnel AMA hours, let’s roll, whatcha got