That’s real estate news, right? Some of the properties close (but not too close) to some of these extensions suddenly have easy convenience to public transportation…perhaps you can get a deal. The new routes sound logical, the end of the Skokie Swift up north could be a lot more convenient.
I wish Chicago had a single and more integrated system instead of the overlapping CTA elevated systems and Metra where one system essentially serves Chicago and a few inner-tier suburbs and one the farther out suburbs. I can walk to a Metra stop from my home but that only really helps me get to Chicago or the northwest suburbs…I should be able to walk to my Metra stop and seemlessly get virtually anywhere with another Metra stop without going downtown and waiting a while and often having to change train stations. I’d like to go to Kenosha or Naperville easily by just walking a couple blocks. The years I lived in Washington, D.C. with its Metro system I literally drove on average only about 10 miles per week.
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