Thoghtful analysis.
Sure you can. There is a connection from the MILW’s main line to the C&NW’s “New Line” right by the former location of the Glenview Naval Air Station. The New Line runs along the entire western edge of ORD.
Again, of course you can. It is done every day. Trains are run through the city quite regularly with only a crew change.
Thats great but the phrase…“Efficient Rail Routing” - was intended to mean auto competive or better as well as to the terminal as discussed with more convience than a circuitous shuttle bus routing.
So if you were in a car or truck and it took you that long you would think that was a decent amount of time? I think an OTR trucker would have a different point of view.
It would be a fast routing, and if the much talked about western terminal is added to ORD, would be just fine.
Apples to oranges. The train keeps moving, only stopping for crew changes. All the while the OTR trucker must stop for his/hers mandatory 10 hours rest, or the car drivers night in the hotel. Did you leave that part out because it didn’t fit your argument, or because you are that unfamiliar to what you are talking
Its not that simple for either the train or OTR Trucker. As for the attempted insult, rather humorous you thought it was that simple and published that nonsense.
Thats great but the point was auto competive not a vague definition of “fast routing”.
It is very simple for the train. Just stop, you are over your head, again…
Sigh, I know you just want to argue when you are wrong, I am not falling into that trap. The New Line is a 50 mph freight railroad (according to the timetable), the MILW is an Amtrak line. If you are as smart as you think you are, you should be able to figure out how long it will take to run that route.
(Hint, it would close to what Google Maps quotes the auto trip to be. And that is factoring the stops made by Amtrak on the current route north of the connection.)
Is the Baltimore airport/NEC connection a convenient place to transfer?
Just tunnel under ORD and build a station(s) that services the concourses just outside tsa check points. It is a lot of rock BTW. If I remember runway 14L - 32 R would cause the longest part of the bore.
A tunnel under an active airport would be an expensive undertaking for an unknown and probably small number of passengers.
I’m surprizes that no one has mentioned Newark Liberty Airport in this discussion. The monorail that runs between the three terminals and the parking lots also goes to the train station on the NEC. Most Amtrak trains do not stop at this station, but many NJTransit trains do. Newark Penn Station is only 5 minutes north; all Amtrak trains stop there, and the transfer to NJT is convenient.
Last I heard the Newark Airport Monorail is a epic fail. Oddly you cant walk or ride your bicycle to the Newark Airport Terminal as it is on all Port Land of NYNJ and is restricted access
From what I understand is that airport fed money could only be used for in airport transportation which is why airport people movers never leave the airport…that policy just changed this past year to fund airport rail links but details are lacking
At DFW they just raised the taxi ways to climb over the freeway and roads via bridges which might be more logical