The Most Famous Elevated Metro System | Chicago L

as a chicagoan, thanks for this vid

Very cool showcase.

"streetcar origins" my brother in christ the L was not based on streetcars and the streetcars we had here were FAR larger than L cars

Annoying trend in North American transit: Using colors instead of letters or numbers for route references.

I love the arquitecture of the L. The loop always blows my mind

To find the abandoned infrastructure in those POVs, turn on captions

Cover Grenoble next please!!

I 100% agree that the brown line from the loop should be extended to serve Streeterville and to the blue line along I90.

It cannot be stressed how much Chicago needs an orbital North/South route that serves the Western neighborhoods. It is brutal to have to go downtown to just go a few miles north or south coming from the West.

As a Chicago resident and frequent passenger of the el, thanks for this. Another point is that because of the elevated nature of much of the system, one can argue that Chicago has a very large bridge, possibly the largest in the North America (note to bridge nerds).

372 Macie Spurs

It's our Rapid Transit system that's the pride of my city, Chicago. 🚇

Chicago itself is one big 'L'

😢 Could you possibly narrate your video faster so nobody can understand what you are saying?

The thing that sells the MTA for me over Chicago is its versatility. When visiting NYC, i can get within mere blocks of literally anywhere I've ever wanted to go by only taking subways, no buses or taxis or uber. In fact, I've never been on any of those, only commuter rail and subways.

CTA is very limited in where it can take you. When visiting Chicago recently, I found that I had to walk FAR distances to get pretty much anywhere I wanted. The L doesn't even connect to Union Station, you have to walk several blocks across the river to get to it. If the CTA was more versatile, I would've liked it better. For what they do have though, it's a good and interesting service.

Wisoky Rapid

Tremblay Key

Towne Summit

Kavon Shoals

Norwood Green

Bo Mills

Macie Hollow

Leannon Parks

Herman Stravenue

Raleigh Spurs

Jones Crossing

Zaria Centers

Ferry Overpass

Fletcher Pass

Klocko Squares

Howe Drive

Jon Mission

Alice Summit

Zboncak Fall

All they need to know is the differences between CTA Chicago and particularly the Metra Antioch. The twin of Antioch. There are no buses. No means of transportation. A limited Taxi service that’ll kick you off. If you don’t have a car, you have to go to Ada. Because it’s disabled. They need to know that.

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I cant express enough how much I love the look of the L train

jeez

I live in Uptown, patiently waiting for the elevators at the Argyle station. Lifelong Chi Town gal, but have never been on the Metra. However, I rode the Northwestern line as a child decades ago with grandma.

The CTA should extend the Green Line back to 63rd & Stony Island & build a bus terminal there for the SE side.

😭Everyone who looks at the L asks "why is there no circle line?", and every time I cry, because the CTA did a study on it, but never actually did anything. The lack of a circle line connecting Red, Brown, and Purple to the Blue line without forcing you to go into the loop sucks so bad, man. Going from the north side to O'Hare is HORRIBLE, it takes like 1h30, and a circle line would massively cut down that travel time.

Edit: and thinking about it more, a bigger circle connecting the south portions of the Red, Orange and Green lines to the O'Hare-bound corridor of the Blue would ALSO be amazing.

Chicago is in dire need of a ring line, it sucks to have to go in and out of the loop to get anywhere.

New to the channel: Excellent content. I have family in Chicago and riding the L is always a treat.

Have you visited Montreal? Amazing transit system and they are pouring more money into it to make it better.

I felt intrigued by the Chicago train system after watching The Bear, would you make one about the Metro in Porto, Portugal.?

As someone from 166th street, my life would change if the redline expanded down to here