Saturday, April 23, 2005
(10:57 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
CTA Map on Google Maps
If you use Mozilla, you can add a CTA map feature to go along with the satellite view on Google Maps. Here's how. If you're still using MapQuest instead of Google Maps, I think you need to switch, because the Google maps are much nicer and more readable.Also, when you look at the CTA map, ponder a suggestion I have to improve Chicago's rail system -- a new line, provisionally called "The Kotsko Line," running from the Pulaski Orange Line, north through the Pulaski Green Line, then turning toward the Belmont Blue line and heading straight east over Belmont and maybe ending at the Belmont Red/Brown/Purple Line. The primary motivation is to improve rail service to Logan Square, where you can basically get to O'Hare or Downtown, but not to Lincoln Park, where everything is happening. I figured that we might as well extend it south as well, just to help those people out. The main reason I think this would never happen is that we're basically out of colors for lines -- what would it be, the Pink Line?
Oh, there's also the fact that the CTA is threatening to start charging more money for less service. Right.
