Once we heard "Englewood Flyover" we assumed this was a way to avoid the entire 007 District and it had our full support:
Funding is in jeopardy for construction of a major rail-bridge system to ease at least some of the freight and passenger train congestion in the Chicago region, officials warned Thursday.
The argument against building the Englewood flyover bridges on Chicago's South Side at one of the nation's busiest railroad junctions has nothing to do with the merits of the project.
Instead, the long-planned bridge is among billions of dollars worth of infrastructure improvements that are being threatened by the battle playing out in Congress over the soaring national debt.
- Chicago’s Englewood Flyover project, which is pegged to receive $133 million in High Speed Intercity Passenger Rail Program stimulus funds, will create nearly 1,500 jobs in Illinois, according to Gov. Pat Quinn.
[...] The project will help establish high-speed rail service between Chicago and Detroit.
Do we really need a faster way for all of Detroit's problems to work their way over here to Chicago? We seem to be headed that direction just fast enough on our own.