CrossTowner regional rail project map
Chicagoland Rail Transit Map showing CrossTowner improvements
Four projects to build the final 4% of the CrossTowner vision to create a six-line, 140+ station regional rail network that would just so happen to allow Metra to run all-day express service on eight of their 11 lines.
#BuildTheTunnel is for all of northeastern Illinois.
BuildTheTunnelChicago.org
CrossTowner regional rail service diagram
CrossTowner regional rail service diagram with key projects highlighted
CrossTowner regional rail project map
BuildTheTunnelChicago.org
ICYMI over the weekend, we've launched a new website for the CrossTowner regional rail vision.
96% of the CrossTowner vision is already built. As NITA launches in about six weeks, join the campaign to finish the final 4%: it's time to #BuildTheTunnel.
🔗 BuildTheTunnelChicago.org
It’s 2am, why not read about why we need to #BuildTheTunnel? Forget the train crawl website, go straight to BuildTheTunnelChicago.org
> also jesus its almost 130
It’s never too late to #BuildTheTunnel
TFW someone earnest slides into my DMs to discuss #BuildTheTunnel seven hours after my first Miller Lite of the night
CrossTowner regional rail service diagram
CrossTowner regional rail project map
96% of the CrossTowner regional rail network has already been built.
It’s time to build the final 4%: it’s time to #BuildTheTunnel.
Learn more: BuildTheTunnelChicago.org
(And yes, I did submit #BuildTheTunnel for the WBC thing.)
BuildTheTunnelChicago.org
Just in time for World Business Chicago’s HorizonLines design competition, #BuildTheTunnel has a new home on the internet.
More to come: BuildTheTunnelChicago.org
Could have used him as a reference while I was explaining #buildthetunnel to my mother as we sat in construction traffic on 294 after she picked me up at O'Hare earlier
A crudely assembled montage of Google Earth imagery, showing the existing Halsted St overpass near Chicago Ave looking southeast towards downtown, with the Munich Hackerbrucke S-Bahn portal pasted in
There's beauty in simplicity: some big projects can and should blend seamlessly into the cityscape. Strategic connections between existing infrastructure to fully maximize the potential of what we already have is why Chicagoland should #BuildTheTunnel.
CrossTowner regional rail proposed service diagram
CrossTowner regional rail project map
Hell site Chicagoans apparently having some neighborhood-to-neighborhood trip discourse as of late and let me tell you, I have something to add: I think we should #BuildTheTunnel
Thanks for your time! #BuildTheTunnel is a great idea. I hope your optimism about NITA pays off.
Been a hot minute and some Illinois fans may be looking for a distraction, so let’s open it up for a weekend happy hour #BuildTheTunnel AMA. Fire away, whatcha got?
Maybe this website is dying because the rest of you aren’t talking about #BuildTheTunnel enough, ever think of that
Still not fooling, still willing to hire someone to put together a couple two tree professional-style #BuildTheTunnel renderings, DM me your portfolios
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
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.
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
