Will Chicago ever meet up with milwaukee?? (Evanston, Oak Park: trains, suburbs)

[Avengerfire]

Originally Posted by Milwaukee City

But now here in Milwaukee The KRM line is close to being funded and start operation soon.
Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee Train Line...

So it is a done deal?

[Milwaukee City]

I guess not I just discovered this article!!! I was out of the state for 3 weeks when this article came out so it was a done deal when I was in WI last but now it looks like it's done!!

KRM commuter line hits major snag




http://milwaukee.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2009/01/19/story1.html?b=1232341200^1762846

[Milwaukee City]

Kenosha News | Many see KRM as key to region

It looks like the only way it gets done now is with the stimulus package, So wait and see.

[mackinac81]

I think it's only a matter of time before Southwestern Michigan becomes part of the metro too.

Oh please don't say that! I live in SW Michigan and love it the way it is (well Benton Harbor could get better) It was always nice crossing into Michigan from Chicago because you knew, beyond any doubt, that you were behind the city. (Much as I like Chicago, it's still a sprawling mass) And the orchards and woods around St. Joe are beautiful. I wouldn't want to see it polluted by subdivisions, pollution and traffic.

[Milwaukee City]

I already considered it connected since both metro areas touch, all that is left is for Kenosha and Racine to fill in the gaps which if you have been on I94 to Milw you would see how developed it is already.

[coldwine]

Originally Posted by Lookout Kid

It's good not to be "too Milwaukee". I lived there. I know.

Or as my wife would say, "That's so Sconnie!".

Hey, I was typing on my cellphone

[thePR]

Originally Posted by mackinac81

Oh please don't say that! I live in SW Michigan and love it the way it is (well Benton Harbor could get better) It was always nice crossing into Michigan from Chicago because you knew, beyond any doubt, that you were behind the city. (Much as I like Chicago, it's still a sprawling mass) And the orchards and woods around St. Joe are beautiful. I wouldn't want to see it polluted by subdivisions, pollution and traffic.

First Milwaukee and Chicago will meet so it will be after that. LaPorte County and St. Joseph County need to be engulfed before Berrien County is part of it. I don't know how close this is to happening currently, but I think it is probable that by 2050 it will have happened.

I like the area a lot too. My favorite city outside of Illinois is South Haven.

[city414]

Originally Posted by Milwaukee City

Kenosha News | Many see KRM as key to region

It looks like the only way it gets done now is with the stimulus package, So wait and see.

so this is basically an expanision of the metra into the north correct..where would the tracks lay

[Milwaukee City]

so this is basically an expanision of the metra into the north correct..where would the tracks lay

True in a way, it would be a different company not metra. They are proposed to use the up tracks already but die to high freight traffic and the Milwaukee to Chicago train already making 9 round trips THe krm line would now have to build it's own tracks. So unless the stimuli package includes that kiss it good bye. We'll see though.

[city414]

Originally Posted by Milwaukee City

True in a way, it would be a different company not metra. They are proposed to use the up tracks already but die to high freight traffic and the Milwaukee to Chicago train already making 9 round trips THe krm line would now have to build it's own tracks. So unless the stimuli package includes that kiss it good bye. We'll see though.

are there any pics of how this train would look. i saw the map so this train would connect to the metra(?) then in kenosha(which is limited) if anything i think the train should go further north than downtown mlw

i still confused a little bit because i saw something proposed about chicago, maybe this company can go elevated style


we'll see though