Chicago is an Island City
(It’s also coastal but we already know that)
Anonymous asked:
does amtrak take bus cards
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Why did the US never invest in High Speed Rail until now?
Urban Planning
Urban Planning is a great field that acts as a Middle ground between design and policy, it is approachable and has a tangible effect on all of us and how we live. If you care about how are cities develop, it’s a great field to get into. It’s a new field meaning that there is a low barrier to entry, you can enter it from many degrees such as Urban Planning/Studies but also Architecture, Political Science, Sociology and others. So yeah if you want to do something that makes a real change for the better, consider Urban Planning as a field.
Dashcon could have worked if they were in downtown Chicago instead of Schaumburg, because there would have been more trains available
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Releasing a feral Hatsune Miku onto the train <3<3<3
luxcalibur asked:
Why do you think Chicago is such a good city? It's terribly spread out and inefficient, with mostly single-family homes. Compared to New York, which is dense with apartments even outside of Manhattan or directly on the east river, it's basically a suburb. I don't think a dense downtown attached to suburban sprawl is suddenly good urban planning just because the sprawl has a train going through it, you've just created commuter rail with a subway system instead of infrastructure to allow the city to exist outside of the small radius that zoning allows it to.
Okay so first have you ever been to Chicago? I ask this because from the way this ask is phrased I feel like you haven’t been there. Because yes there are very suburban sections in city limits but also Chicago has some of the most dense mixed use neighborhoods in the country and the L is not just there for commuters but it allows you to access shopping districts like Milwaukee Avenue or diverse neighborhoods like Chinatown, Uptown, Rogers Park, Pilsen, and Logan Square as well as many of Chicagos parks like Lincoln Park or Wicker Park. The reason I praise Chicago is because it much more similar to the typical American city than New York but still is incredibly walkable with a diversity of uses, a great parks system, and all around is one of my favorite places. Yes it does have flaws like the endless suburban sprawl but the city proper is a genuinely amazing place.
Oh yeah, the whole internet thing doesn’t affect Amtrak because it runs off Linux, I forgot about that fact