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Originally Posted by the urban politician
^ And how could what you are asking possibly be accomplished while still accommodating the Metra and Amtrak trains that would be running underneath? It simply has to be an elevated plaza.
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The platform doesn't need to be as tall as currently planned. It looks like spyguy's model photos and renderings have been removed, but you can see what I'm talking about in this shot from Chicago Real Estate Daily:
See that huge chunk above the platform "tunnel"? I think it's a full story tall.
The trains already pass beneath the Lake Street "bridge", so why would they suddenly need an extra 10+ feet of space overhead to pass under what is, essentially, a really wide bridge?
Furthermore, it's unique to the the revived project. River Point 1.0 didn't seem to have this problem; along Lake Street, the park appears to simply extend from the sidewalk without any change in elevation:
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Originally Posted by spyguy
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