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Chicago Switching => General Discussion => Topic started by: GM on November 03, 2008, 04:15:59 PM

Title: Kinzie Street Bridge
Post by: GM on November 03, 2008, 04:15:59 PM

http://www.suntimes.com/news/transportation/1256522,CST-NWS-ride03.article

Kinzie Street Bridge that leads to Carrol Ave where Sun Times boxcars were once delivered may see new life according to the Sun Times article above only for a new reason. Plans are for a Metra connection from Michigan Ave.

GM

Title: Kinzie Street Bridge
Post by: ray gerard on November 06, 2008, 07:14:08 PM

perhaps president obama can secure funding for the city\'s dream \"downtown circulator\" (light rail) that would run up and down canal st. from union and ogilvie stations, it would utilize the C&NW\'s kinzie bridge to head down carroll ave and N water st to navy pier, and take a southern E/W route to the museum/soldier field/mccormick place campus

Title: Kinzie Street Bridge
Post by: TBurke on November 07, 2008, 08:29:03 PM

That would be nice.  The idea of a circulator route using Carroll Avenue and the former C&NW Navy Pier line ROW has been kicked around since the 1980s.  That whole Near North Side of Chicago is gridlocked and could use congestion relief.  

I\'m glad to read that the new Trump Tower has room underneath to allow trains to pass underneath.

It would be a very tight turn from the tracks that exit Union Station onto the former C&NW Navy Pier line along Canal Street unless a switchback is used.  The MIlwaukee Road C&E line once crossed the C&NW Navy Pier line at grade on the east side of Canal Street but there was no interchange at that point.