If the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning wants a Union Pacific-Union Station hookup, there may be one opportunity left to make it happen.
A visitor heads toward a parked Amtrak train open for tours as Amtrak celebrates its high-speed rail improvements at Union Station in Chicago on June 26, 2023.
Wait. How can the Ogilvie tracks be connected to the Union Station tracks? Aren’t the Ogilvie tracks elevated above street level, and don’t they pass directly over the at-grade Union Station tracks just before entering the 16-track terminal at Madison and Canal streets? And our regional master planner, the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, simply did not have in mind a potential Union Pacific-Amtrak connection at Canal and Kinzie. CMAP maintains a large inventory of existing, former and potential transportation assets, including abandoned and disused railroad tracks, but a Canal-Kinzie connection was not on it.
The fit would be tight. The owners of the 365 N. Jefferson St. apartment tower would not enjoy the street in front of their building being turned into railroad tracks. The building would have to be reconfigured with a new front entrance. And the Echelon Chicago apartment tower on Des Plaines would have to be provided with a new entrance to its parking garage, now accessed from the Jefferson side.
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