Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!ihuxl!essachs From: essachs@ihuxl.UUCP (Ed Sachs) Newsgroups: net.railroad Subject: Re: Dade Co. Metrorail Opens - (nf) Message-ID: <1177@ihuxl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 15-Jun-84 10:37:47 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxl.1177 Posted: Fri Jun 15 10:37:47 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 16-Jun-84 04:00:31 EDT References: <175@sdchema.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 22 ===================================== Re: remark that elevated railways in New York and Chicago are constructed over streets: While this is generally true in New York (with one or two exceptions, such as the Brighton Line of the old BMT in Brooklyn), construction of elevated lines over streets was the exception in Chicago outside the "Loop." Only one of Chicago's L (not el) lines, namely the Lake Street L, is constructed (mostly) above a street, the others were all built along private right-of-way through back alleys (and are thus often referred to as "Alley Ls"). Newer lines are in expressway median strips. Aside: the outer portion of the Lake St. L line ran at ground level until the 1960's, when it was moved to the elevated (earthen embankment) right-of-way of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, and thus only part of the Lake St. L runs above a street. -- Ed Sachs AT&T Bell Laboratories Naperville, IL ihuxl!essachs