The official tumblr of amtrak โ€” Chicago has had some of the most successful Urban...

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Okay so Chicago is an amazing city, we all love her right. Well here's the thing, the Chicago we all love did not exist 25 years ago. This was the Chicago of the 1970s

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The riverfront was neglected and the much of the lakefront was inaccessible covered by a rail yard and parking lots .

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Chicago has had some of the most successful Urban projects of the century happen in its downtown. And their gorgeous too. More impressive is the fact that they gave the city more open space and made it more livable for citizens. I am of course referring to 3 park projects, the Chicago River Walk, Millennium park and Daley Park, and the conversion of Meigs Field.

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If you host a panel at dashcon 2 you MUST make it an open discussion, and I will tell you why. So sometimes online it’s like

You: train good. Put more train.

Random person: wow. Way to just fucking hate my grandma that lives in the rural woods, who lost both her legs to a rogue badger attack in 1965, who runs a gas station. Not to mention her parents were murdered by a train. How dare you say you wish she was dead

Now imagine that IN PERSON. It would be magnificent

I would hope the people of Toronto would be more reasonable than the tumblrinas, but I am not sure

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if I am able to go to Dashcon 2 and host a panel, what should the topic be

trolleys and their various forms within American Cities (Philly, Toronto,Boston)

transit infrastructure and why it’s needed

a brief summary of American Rail Infrastructure history and why it matters today

the new potential for the north American Rail network and where it lacks

Local Advocacy and how to get involved

the history of the subway system

what makes a city livable, an open discussion

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to be completely honest and in the most positive way possible, i never checked your actual blog before and only interact with your posts when they appear on my dash, so since my dash is 90% trans autistic women with incredibly niche special interests i always just assumed you were also along that vein of person

Are trains and urban design niche special interests?

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Stumbled upon this post tumblr.com/amtrak-official/756979579402452992 while looking for a different one and had to do a double take. It is insane to see a blog with amtrak in its name make the same argument that is made against amtrak year after year, namely that "you are … paying a company that can't manage its own finances to stay afloat." Support or oppose tumblrs push to become user-funded for whatever reasons you like, but don't push such obviously misguided arguments.

Amtrak is a federal service, it should have no expectation of profitability, tumblr is a private corporation with no connection to the government. That right there is a massive difference

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