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traildriver:

See the following.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Aurora_and_Elgin_Railroad

*Note that the trains would have run in the median strip of the then-abuilding Congress St. Expressway (today's Eisenhower Expressway)

[traildriver]

Thanks...I wonder when PE built their first freeway line?
I remember when Greyhound moved into one of its first 'intermodal' stations here...
https://www.google.com/search?q=95th+and+dan+ryan+greyhound+station+photo&rlz=1C1CHZL_enUS739US739&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=Q4irylehuysFyM%253A%252CRyiTIMndjmmSvM%252C_&usg=AI4_-kR-yF8HcunznquyuET31p2ksAJQKg&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi0oOeSxYbeAhVCnuAKHSwOBjoQ9QEwA3oECAAQCA#imgrc=qJD1MQVbYkQ7vM:

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Traildriver:

I checked my copy of "RIDE THE BIG RED CARS" (Spencer Crump); from what I gather, the PE right-of-way in the median of the Caheunga Pass Freeway was begun in 1947.

This was, in fact, PE's last gasp in trying to update the system, and make it competitive with automobiles.

The project cost nearly $20 million.

Had this freeway route been successful, PE would have then incorporated new routes in conjunction with the building of other new freeways.

Ah, what might have been.....

"NYO"

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Had the "Red Car" survived into the present........

http://www.newdavesrailpix.com/pe/htm/pe404.htm

(courtesy: newdavesrailpix)

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Meanwhile, back in the Windy City...........

http://www.newdavesrailpix.com/cta/htm/cta0024a.htm

http://www.newdavesrailpix.com/cta/htm/cta0129.htm

http://www.newdavesrailpix.com/cta/htm/cta0836.htm

http://www.newdavesrailpix.com/cta/htm/cta0023a.htm

(courtesy: newdavesrailpix)

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MARTA (Atlanta), and the Metro in Baltimore also utilize median strip running bisecting busy highways.

Also, Washington, DC.

This view is of the DC METRO:

http://www.newdavesrailpix.com/odds/dc/htm/dcm02.htm

(courtesy: newdavesrailpix)

*BART, also, features median running.........

http://www.newdavesrailpix.com/sf/htm/sf085.htm

(it would indeed seem, from the previous photos posted, that PE's idea of "freeway running" was not such a bad idea after all......in fact, in this respect, PE was light-years ahead of the times).........

[traildriver]

Good sampling...

Transit 'over' the median....New York style...

https://www.google.com/search?q=airtrain+photo+over+van+wyck+expressway&rlz=1C1CHZL_enUS739US739&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=wZs-Kvod58PjbM%253A%252C-0g0YokYcKE3kM%252C_&usg=AI4_-kTO9uRBIjTXyHkCfzCHCiqk2BKWGw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwif4-HetYfeAhXRm-AKHYElAAcQ9QEwCXoECAIQBA#imgrc=6N-ReC2oeUQsSM: