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Shoreline Dispatch No. 15: Then and Now on the Chicago Surface System

Art Peterson

SKU: 88546
$40.00

Dispatch 15 is a must-read to understand what has happened to urban mass transit over the past century. It includes not only actions that the transit system took over that period, but also economic and social considerations that impacted key transit lines/corridors in Chicago.

Through 170 photographs and accompanying narrative, Dispatch 15 from the Shoreline Interurban Historical Society covers over a century of Chicago's surface transit systems (including streetcar, motor bus, trolley bus, work equipment and facilities coverage). Dispatch 15 continues the tour and descriptions of Chicago's neighborhoods that have been included in Shore Line's four prior CSL Dispatches. Chicago's 77 neighborhoods with their individual cultural and ethnic backgrounds have always made and continue to make Chicago a very vibrant city.

In 1919 Chicago Surface Lines, the world's largest streetcar systems, carried 744 million passengers. Fast forward to 2022 (most-recent complete year data available), CTA provided 243.5 million passenger trips, only 32% of a century ago. This clearly defines the challenges of providing urban transportation in the current automobile-centric, city-suburban environment.

Dispatch 15 is a must-read to understand what has happened to urban mass transit over the past century. It includes not only actions that the transit system took over that period, but also economic and social considerations that impacted key transit lines/corridors in Chicago.

 

Shoreline Dispatch No. 15: Then and Now on the Chicago Surface System
Shore Line Interurban Society

Shoreline Dispatch No. 15: Then and Now on the Chicago Surface System

$40.00

Through 170 photographs and accompanying narrative, Dispatch 15 from the Shoreline Interurban Historical Society covers over a century of Chicago's surface transit systems (including streetcar, motor bus, trolley bus, work equipment and facilities coverage). Dispatch 15 continues the tour and descriptions of Chicago's neighborhoods that have been included in Shore Line's four prior CSL Dispatches. Chicago's 77 neighborhoods with their individual cultural and ethnic backgrounds have always made and continue to make Chicago a very vibrant city.

In 1919 Chicago Surface Lines, the world's largest streetcar systems, carried 744 million passengers. Fast forward to 2022 (most-recent complete year data available), CTA provided 243.5 million passenger trips, only 32% of a century ago. This clearly defines the challenges of providing urban transportation in the current automobile-centric, city-suburban environment.

Dispatch 15 is a must-read to understand what has happened to urban mass transit over the past century. It includes not only actions that the transit system took over that period, but also economic and social considerations that impacted key transit lines/corridors in Chicago.

 

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