The Mid-City Transitway is a concept for the use of the right-of-way formerly proposed for the
Crosstown Expressway in
Chicago
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Illinois
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. The uses being studied include a bus-only rapid-transit road (similar to a two-lane road running from
McCormick Place
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north to the
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), a truck-only bypass around the city center, or a rail
rapid transit
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system (the favored and most feasible of the three primary concepts).
Feasibility studies began in late 2002 and were commissioned by
Richard M. Daley
Richard Michael Daley (born April 24, 1942) is an American politician who served as the 54th mayor of Chicago, Illinois, from 1989 to 2011. Daley was elected mayor in 1989 and was reelected five times until declining to run for a seventh term ...
, then mayor of
Chicago
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Current studies into the Mid-City Transitway utilize a dormant Beltway Railroad railway embankment just east of Cicero Avenue (
Illinois Route 50
Illinois Route 50 (IL 50) is a north–south state road in northeastern Illinois. It runs from the junction with U.S. Route 45 (US 45) and U.S. Route 52 (US 52) in West Kankakee north to US 41 in Skokie. In Chicago and the subur ...
) and other abandoned rail rights-of-way. The feasibility studies will help determine whether a two or four-lane highway can be built atop the embankment. The study corridor is 22 miles (35.4 km) in length. , although feasibility studies have largely been completed, according to published reports, recent economic difficulties in city and state finances have made the initiation of construction on the project increasingly unlikely to proceed within the next seven to ten years.
Proposed junctions
Rapid transit line
*
Montrose
*Irving Park/Milwaukee
*Addison
*Belmont
*Diversey
*Fullerton
*Armitage
*North
*Division
*Chicago
*Lake----Transfer To
CTA Green Line
The Green Line is a rapid transit line on the Chicago Transit Authority's Chicago "L", "L" system. It is a completely elevated route in the "L" system; all other routes may have various combinations of elevated, subway, street level (at grade), or ...
*Congress----Transfer To
CTA Blue Line
The Blue Line is a Chicago "L" line which extends through The Loop from O'Hare International Airport at the far northwest end of the city, through downtown via the Milwaukee–Dearborn subway and across the West Side to its southwest end ...
*Roosevelt
*Cermak----Transfer To
CTA Pink Line
The Pink Line is an rapid transit line in Chicago, run by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) as part of the Chicago "L" system. It is the CTA's newest rail line and began operation for a 180-day trial period on June 25, 2006, running between 54 ...
*35th/Hawthorne
*47th
*Archer
*
Midway
*67th
*Ford City
*79th
*83rd
*Cicero
*Pulaski/Southwest
*Kedzie
*Western
*Racine
*Halsted
*Shields
*
87th
See also
*
Urban Ring Project (MBTA)
The Urban Ring was a proposed project of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, to develop new public transportation routes that would provide improved circumferential connections among ...
in Boston, MA
References
* Hinz, G. (2002)
Daley Goes Down Crosstown Road ''Crain's Chicago Business'', November 4, 2002 vi
Retrieved December 27, 2005.
* McClendon, D. (2004)
''Encyclopedia of Chicago''. Retrieved December 27, 2005
External links
City of Chicago: Mid-City Transitway
Expressways in the Chicago area
Proposed railway lines in Illinois
Richard M. Daley
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