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3 hours ago, artthouwill said:

Not that the Yellow Line doesn't need track maintenance but the Forest Park branch of the Blue Lune  is ridiculous.   We are talking 60 plus years of neglect. 

No point with the road bed being as bad as it is. I remember before the Dan Ryan was shut down they replaced all the ties 1-2 years before. We got maybe a month of decent speed before it went back to crap. 

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19 minutes ago, artthouwill said:

Accident investigation including track conditions, block signaling, etc?  I have to wonder if NTSB  made any recommendations to XRA that made track maintenance a priority for the Yellow Line?

 

The report didn't show anything involving track. Probably just regularly scheduled maintenance. Adding to my earlier reply as far as "why not forest Park?" Most of the other places that we feel could actually use some maintenance can't be dealt with until the projects start (FP rebuild, RPM, etc)

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14 minutes ago, Sam92 said:

No point with the road bed being as bad as it is. I remember before the Dan Ryan was shut down they replaced all the ties 1-2 years before. We got maybe a month of decent speed before it went back to crap. 

Agreed.   I suppose there's no funding in place  so I suffered through the Dan Ryan slow zones and tge Howard slow zones si u can suffer through the Blue slow zones too 

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51 minutes ago, artthouwill said:

Agreed.   I suppose there's no funding in place  so I suffered through the Dan Ryan slow zones and tge Howard slow zones si u can suffer through the Blue slow zones too 

They could've at least been more proactive about the section east of Cicero Though since IDOT work shouldn't interfere

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