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Chicago should eject inefficient rail from expressway medians for toll express lanes
Posted Sun, 2007-06-03 08:37
Timothy W Martin secretary of the Illinois Department of Transportation 2003-2007, now a senior VP of CTE/Aecom said at a conference recently that Chicago doesn't need toll express lanes because it has something better - passenger rail lines in expressway medians. They carry far more people than the same space devoted to highway lanes, he claimed.
This is nonsense, but it's commonly held nonsense. An urban myth.
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