Comments on: CTA Releases Conceptual Drawings Of Land Use After Red Line Rebuild, Includes New Hollywood Ave Train Entrance

By: Allan Marshall

Allan Marshall — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 08:02:00 +0000

Yeah, that is a lame idea. Keep Thorndale as a station, and forget about building another entrance into the station at Hollywood. Wish I had gone to that meeting, but at least better late than never I learned the details of what was being considered.

By: Harvey Marx 2: The Remarkening

Harvey Marx 2: The Remarkening — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:46:00 +0000

The whole thing’s a bad idea. I used to live by the Logan Square station, which had a back entrance a block away, and the trains still stopped at the Kenzie end of the platform, so once you enter the station at Spaulding you have to walk (or run for the train) another block inside the station. There are similar issues on the Forest Park branch of the Blue Line, where stations are designed with entrances up to three(!) blocks apart.

I spoke to one of the CTA’s representatives at the meeting (didn’t catch her name) and she confirmed they’re still mulling closing down Thorndale station with the Hollywood entrance as a replacement. This is NOT a viable substitution for the hundreds of people living around Thorndale, the businesses there, Senn, Swift, the synagogue’s day school, the beaches, etc.

Is it too late to kill this plan?

By: oogernomicon

oogernomicon — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:40:00 +0000

I can already see trouble brewing with adding on-foot commuters (and new residents) to this stretch of Hollywood, a street that has been all but completely transformed against local pedestrians on behalf of the folks driving through the neighborhood to/from LSD or Peterson.