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Originally Posted by 10023
Then what is responsible for "slow zones" for CTA trains? I'm just trying to figure out what they do to speed up transit in Chicago, because that needs to happen.
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Bad ties or overworn track, usually.
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Originally Posted by 10023
How much does moving a building like that cost?
I wonder if one could make a viable business of moving rowhouses with great bones to more desirable locations.
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Wish they'd move those three townhomes on Dearborn south of Chicago Ave to Dearborn just north of Lawson House. Just plopping them there would be fine, but ideally something like pulling Pearson through to Dearborn as a historic-looking, brick-paved pedestrian alley as wide as the sidewalk currently is so that it's something like a mini-plaza/park like Burton Place in Old Town, then the townhomes south of that. Lawson would lose something like 40 parking spaces, but if that were done in coordination with developing those surface lots they could be replaced with a garage and, developed well, that whole block that is currently a terrible mish-mash could turn into something really special for the area, maybe even a mini-quad for that Loyola Campus with porus borders for pedestrians, an interior mini-quad, underground parking and classrooms and student housing or whatever.