None of us who take the 54th/Cermak Blue Line will be able to get to the Racine/Loomis or Halsted/UIC stops directly. No more direct trains to O'Hare or the Northwest side. No more direct trains to the Red Line subway transfer tunnels. those of us who now board at Polk St. will be forced to go to the Medical Center stop in the Eisenhower to get the same direct Blue Line service we have now, or
After October we will have to ride the new Silver Line route downtown over the Green Line elevated to the outdoor Clark/Lake stop then to down into the basement of the State of Illinois Building to take the Blue Line subway back to LaSalle, Clinton, Halsted or Racine or to the northwest side and O'Hare.
Instead, we would like CTA to:
Keep the Same 54th/Cermak Blue Line Direct Route: to the Eisenhower, Dearborn subway & O'Hare
Restore Weekend and Night Service on the 54th/Cerak Blue Line
Have More Frequent Service on Both the 54th/Cermak & Forest Park Blue Lines
In October, 2004, a major change is coming to the 54th/Cermak Blue Line and the Polk St. Stop. The 54th/Cermak Blue Line Trains (to be renamed the Silver Line) will be rerouted north to the Green Line after the Polk St. stop (then go downtown on the elevated line) and no longer go down the tracks of the Eisenhower to stops at Racine, Halsted/UIC, Clinton, LaSalle, and through the subway to the Northwest side and O'Hare.
