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Originally Posted by ardecila
This is a weird bit of postmodernism. I haven't seen anybody really push for something truly modern except Milwaukee and St. Louis.
It's also seriously overbuilt - just like at Sturtevant. Why does a station with six daily trains need a pedestrian bridge? There are literally hundreds of Metra stations with flat crossings. Talk about wasteful.
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Considering Metra's track record regarding pedestrian fatalities, it doesn't seem like that big of a waste. Over a seven year period there were 260 pedestrian deaths of which there were 120 suicides, 43 deaths at crossings, 16 deaths at stations, and 81 deaths of trespassers not at a crossing or station. Granted it is a big system but how much more does a pedestrian bridge add to the cost? It seems like a prudent thing to do to not have to worry about pedestrians and every plan that I have ever read wants to increase the frequency on this line, sure that may be pie in the sky thinking now but that is where the money was supposed to go.
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