If you’re riding a Green Line train and look down at the Dan Ryan expressway, you may feel like you’re on top of the world. What’s up with that?
Geoffrey Baer has more on the bridge’s history, and what it can tell us about the development of Chicago’s neighborhoods in this week’s Ask Geoffrey.
To accomplish this, the CTA constructed a second bridge to carry the original 1907 tracks. The weight from the original tracks was shifted to the new bridge so crews could excavate below them. In the words of CTA historian Graham Garfield, it was “a bridge on top of a bridge.”The Englewood branch – known today as the Green Line’s Ashland branch -- was constructed in 1905 as an extension of the South Side Elevated line, which had opened in 1892, a year before the Columbian Exposition.
The city managed to keep the trains running even during the construction of the Ryan, but because it was its oldest line, it was long overdue to be refurbished. In the 1990s, the line was almost totally rebuilt in preparation for the merger that would create the modern‐day Green Line. To do so, the CTA shut down the entire line for two years, from the South Side to Oak Park.
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