Here are three fantasy maps based on the other Chicagoland PRT proposals on the Internet Archive: one for Lisle, one for Deerfield, one for Schaumburg.
I’m not even going to pretend any of these are a good idea. I said in the Rosemont PRT post that the Lisle and Deerfield PRTs, if built, would have limped along until the pandemic in a manner not dissimilar to how Las Colinas’ people mover hung on for as long as it did; this is largely because they both connect to Metra and would hopefully have seen at least some commuter traffic as a result (incidentally, if this map is any guide, both corridors were decently served by commuter shuttle buses up until the pandemic, at which point the increase in remote work and the subsequent drop in patronage resulted in the inevitable). To the extent that there’s any good news here, it’s that the corridors the PRT would have served were fairly linear, and that made drawing a people mover network that would serve the same area pretty simple.
Schaumburg’s PRT, meanwhile, wouldn’t have even gotten off the ground. There’s Metra or L service in that part of town, so its patronage would have largely been based on a proposed Woodfield transit center that never got built. It would have run in a unidirectional loop, with all of the uselessness that implies.
I mostly just did these to get them out of my head.
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