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Longest CTA Line
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I'm going to say the Blue Line, which [in the past, at least] started at O'Hare, was a subway in the Loop area, then became elevated and went west out to Harlem Ave.
After some snooping around on the internet, I find that the Blue Line, from O'Hare International Airport to Des Plaines Avenue in Forest Park, is 26.9 miles long.
The Red Line, from Howard Street to 95th Street, is 23.4 miles.
The Red Line, from Howard Street to 95th Street, is 23.4 miles.
In the future this may be the Red Line if CTA gets funds to go south from 95th to 130th,
Glenn Woodle
GWoodle wrote:In the future this may be the Red Line if CTA gets funds to go south from 95th to 130th,They've been talking about that for 20 years or so now................
Rockingham Racer wrote:At the very least. I don't want to date myself, but that talk was around when Reagan was in office, just over a decade after the Dan Ryan line was opened.GWoodle wrote:In the future this may be the Red Line if CTA gets funds to go south from 95th to 130th,They've been talking about that for 20 years or so now................
Meanwhile, Red currently weighs in at 23.4 miles, according to Wikipedia. Extending it southward to 130th would add about 4 1/2 miles, so if it ever happened, it would indeed supplant Blue as CTA's longest. Just glad I haven't been holding my breath waiting for it to happen all these years...
--Dorian--
There really isn't alot of population on either side of I-94. So are they going down the middle of I-57 to Blue Island?
Using the UPRR right of way (see the map here). Stops in existing dense residential at 103rd, 111th, and Michigan, and a park-and-ride sink at 130th.
