F.K. Plous: How can we bring more people to Starved Rock? By train.
The most popular destination in the Illinois park system can’t handle more visitors during the peak season because its parking lot is full.
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F.K. Plous: Build the CTA Super Loop to get Lincoln Yards and The 78 developed
Chicago should build a new train line that provides Lincoln Yards, The 78 and adjacent neighborhoods with mass transit service.
F.K. Plous: Crime may be dropping, but ‘seeing’ is reality
Americans, and a dismaying number of politicians, keep crying for a crackdown on crimes that aren’t happening.
F.K. Plous: Big plans for United Center area need a tighter link to the ‘L’
Only one thing is missing to make the vast, nearly empty space around the United Center into a model urban neighborhood: rapid transit.
F.K. Plous: Poor planning blocks the way for a vitally needed Chicago rail connection
If the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning wants a Union Pacific-Union Station hookup, there may be one opportunity left to make it happen.
F.K. Plous: Politicians must be on board before more long-distance trains roll
Ouch! Amtrak has been running the Capitol Limited with only four cars. That's atrocious. When I took my family to Washington in 2001 the Capitol had a baggage car, two...
F.K. Plous: How Metra could build regional rail in Chicago
The Feb. 16 editorial "R.I.P., Metra's commuter rail. Long live regional rail!" gets the issue right: Working from home has made the traditional suburb-to-downtown work commute and commuter-train schedule obsolete....
F.K. Plous: How Cook County’s forest preserves healed a nervous pit bull (and his owner)
It seems amazing when I look back on it all, but for my first 44 years in Chicago, I never set foot in any of Cook County's forest preserves. I...
Op-ed: Does One Central’s expensive transit hub make sense?
A recent Chicago Tribune editorial asks some serious questions about developer Robert Dunn's plans to build a megadevelopment just west of Soldier Field. Specifically, it questions Dunn's appeal for an...
The case for escalators and elevators — now — on the Blue Line
The Chicago Transit Authority announced in mid-August that it has hired contractors to start a long-overdue modernization of three subway stations on its Blue Line “L” train route between the...