Chicago is an Island City
ehhhhh? i mean thats like saying the entire eastern US is an island because you can boat from the St Lawrence Seaway to the Gulf of Mexico
It is
![Transcript from https://www.explainxkcd.com/2838 [Title:] Dubious Islands of North America[Subtitle:] And the waterways that separate them [A map of mainland North America, down to the Panama isthmus. It is internally separated by various waterways, given labels or otherwise.] [Separating land approximating Nunavut (with some Northern Territories) from neighbouring Canada:] Mackenzie Athabasca Churchill [Comprising the much of the remainder of Canada, much of the northern United States (including Alaska), additionally separated by:] Columbia Snake Madison Missouri Chicago [Unlabelled, some of the Great Lakes and the channel past Quebec] [An incursive gap near the central point, from the north:] Nelson Red[An internal label, with arrow:] Traverse Gap[An incursive gap near the central point, from the south:] Mississippi[A separate fragment of land south of the Madison, in the western half of the land-mass, bordered to its south by:] Yellowstone[A small fragment off the southen part of the western edge, an arrow and a label:] Chehalis/Black Lake [Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and parts of the adjacent US, disconnected by:] Champlain Hudson [Label with an arrow on the east coast:] Cape Cod Canal [A small triangle of territory, further isolated by:] Erie [Most of the Eastern Seaboard of the US, additionally divided off by:] Tombigbee [Fragment of land shorn from the northern part of the eastern edge, label with arrow:] Chesapeake and Delaware Canal[Fragment of land shorn from the tip of Florida, label with arrow:] Okeechobee Waterway [Strip of land west of the Tombigbee, bounded also to its west by:] Mississippi [Fragment of land immediately to its south, with a nearby label and arrow:] Atchafalaya [The remainder of the continent; comprising much of the US, all of Mexico and various central American territories, with a final tip of the eastwards-bending isthmus:] Panama Canal](https://64.media.tumblr.com/d50658744b2acf08704421081841889d/757f1bda343c9bb0-50/s1280x1920/631c9bf0c188a643c548f43def0ce1d8b45bfbd1.png)
ALTWe need a few more canals in the west
Why did the US never invest in High Speed Rail until now?
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
Anonymous asked:
does amtrak take bus cards
No
Chugga Chugga Choo Choo goes the old Steam Train
Girls who live in the water and climb out when a train passes by to try and capture the train and eat the passengers?
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
