What Stupidity is This?
- With the character of the Chicago Riverwalk and millions of dollars in tourist revenue at stake, a behind-the-scenes battle has broken out over an ambitious plan to construct an aerial tram that would link two of downtown’s most popular attractions, Navy Pier and the Riverwalk.
In recent weeks, the proposal has been quietly shopped to civic organizations by its chief backers, Chicago hotelier Laurence Geller and Lou Raizin, president of Broadway in Chicago. They say it will give Chicago an iconic tourist attraction on a par with the London Eye wheel along the River Thames.
But opponents contend that the tram ride would be an eyesore and that it would crowd the narrow Riverwalk. It could also compete with tour boats run by the Chicago Architecture Foundation and companies like Chicago’s First Lady Cruises and Wendella.
Just our opinion and all, but a bunch of metal towers lining the river? Maybe if they passed it off as a "crime fighting measure"? It would be difficult for the ne'er-do-wells to attack tourists if they were fifty or sixty feet in the air. Maybe make it interesting by giving the tourists cinder blocks to drop periodically.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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It’s more of a Shelbyville idea
Don't worry, they will get Barack Obams's Administration to pony up the money in a federal grant. Rahm's close relationship will with him will really pay off.
"It would be difficult for the ne'er-do-wells
to attack tourists if they were fifty or sixty
feet in the air."
SCC must've worked the 'jets to have looked
at this future problem as potentially self
solving...
Shit-heads flinging furniture, car parts,
toilets, busted TVs, bags of shit, bottles of piss,
cans of vegetables and who knows what else out of
the windows of those late and unlamented vertical
shit piles known as high-rise public housing.
So pardon us if we lay out laughing as a law abiding
and upright citizen drops a Chicago paver on some
IR#'s noggin.
Idk, sounds cool to me. $10 bucks gets you a heated, indoor half of an architectural tour. Like the monorail at Disneyland.
Wouldn't guess anyfolks could use them for aerial target practice..............
Maybe Becky Carroll, Rahm's own deapthroat could get the contract. She was obviously qualified for Midway.
https://thesecretsix.com/investigation/city-refuses-to-shed-light-on-questionable-termination-of-senior-level-city-employee/
What could possibly go wrong with an aerial tram?
* Target practice for the downtown bangers...
* Ice...
* Wind...
Yeah, I know - they have these things in the mountains, but this IS Chicago - stuff gets really hairy weatherwise.
* Mechanical faults...
* Tram-jackers...
And just how much is this unnecessary attraction going to cost us? Why not put ALL that money into the pensions?
The Gravity of the situation shall offset the kickback depravities, thus plunging, sooner or later, more taxpayer money into the drink.
And here I thought that tunnel flooding was gonna hold the record for stupid........
Just follow the money. Votes needed someone gets paid. Permits needed someone gets paid. Inspections needed someone gets paid. Exemptions needed someone gets paid. The Chicago Way in action. If idea fails it is because not enough cash flowed to Aldermen and all connected parties. Make book on that.
But but but its so much fun to spend other peoples' money, taxpayer loot especially, absent accountability!
Just watch out...these types of boondoggles being bridges to nowhere sometimes crack and then fall on traffic below.
It's for the little children
Who will be the first victim of a crime riding rahmie's tram?
I’m all for anything that will bring foreigners and bumpkins here to fund my pension, but this is a loser.
"Cinder blocks" love it, count me in, hell ill bring my own and ride all day.
I can just see the chicken wing bones being thrown out the thing. If its free that is.
Whose paying for it is the real question.
JUst anothr way of keeping the visitors off the real streets of downtown Chicago. Don't want them to be robbed and beaten.
Ummm, let's skip the monorail, and fund the pension instead.
More dumb shit. So obviously it will be rammed through.
They are going to block off another lane and have a street level trolley system.
“We’ve built them in Ogdenville, Brockway, and North Haverbrook.”
What's at the river walk?
Never been there.
Anonymous said...
Idk, sounds cool to me. $10 bucks gets you a heated, indoor half of an architectural tour. Like the monorail at Disneyland.
3/18/2018 12:23:00 AM
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Doesn't the El downtown do that already?
Goes around the entire loop. People can see all the architecture they want for 1/3 the price and additionally get the southside rats onboard show.
If I gladly contribute money to this project does that make me a ...
Tramvestite?
See what I did there
Anonymous said...
What could possibly go wrong with an aerial tram?
3/18/2018 03:27:00 AM
I was thinking something like this.
there must be a better idea. anybody?
Ive been saying for years we should have a Tram running thru our neighborhoods. You know, like the Disney monorail or the one like in a game park. We could call it "ride thru GangsterLand" or something like that. Charge $50 a pop.
We could fund our pensions fully and the hacks will still have enough to steal. Who wouldn't want to ride thru GangsterLand in "Chi-town the world famous abode of gangsters thru the decades". The suckers would be lined up to Wilmette to go for a ride to see our 100,000 gangsters living in their natural habitat.
Charge a premium on week ends in the summer like the Cubs do.
Just wait till dude starts riding the tram like they do the CTA. What a fucken waste. Do you think there is anything in this city they can’t infect? Think again. Hopefully rham’s precious tourists are the ones who get the worst of it do they can go report their experience to the world outside of the bubble so we can get some help. The tram will be crawling and smell like piss bums in a month.
Just change the name of the Red Line..........
Money for unneeded trams, bassetball stafiums, pedestrian flyovers and never ending airport expansions.
Nothing for healthcare and pensions.
Another gift for the connected contractors.
Getting a deal like this fast tracked should carry Rahm’s very costly re-election run-off expenditures in March 2019.
What’s next?
Section8’Arena will want a skyline tram from The 5150 Night Misery to the Jeff Park Blue Line?
Absolutely NO cuts or accountability to spending those tax dollars.
In other news;
The Chicago Pissbum Society (CPS) Spokesperson Anton Jackson has concerns that their members will be unjustly singled out, denied boarding such a conveyance, regardless of exorbitant fares. CPS was not consulted and therefore opposes the plan. Citing that O’Hare airport tram and CTA both have liberal allowances for the free-fare indigent intracity commuter and their biological carry-ons.
Instead of a tram, how about a zip line?
I'd take a ride on that, and you'd be moving so quickly anybody looking to take a shot at you would really have to be good at hitting a moving target.
This will be ugly, very ugly. They are not showing you the full set of details.
The towers, poles and turning stations will be enormous.
Nobody will want to go to the riverwalk when this is complete.
They borrowed a few hundred million dollars to build the riverwalk.
That money has to be paid back by the taxpayers.
Do those with the Chiraqi ID card get a discount on the ride? Free maybe? Priority boarding so they don't feel bullied?
Does anyone remember WKRP show? “As God as my witness I thought turkeys could fly”.
Isn't the point of the river walk to walk along the river? The artist rendering shows the tram flying over the Riverwalk.
how bout helicopters flying to and fro, just put a freakin floatin helipad in the
freakin river with a gangplank to the riverwalk, that will go off like gangbusters-
NOT!
Just another place for the piss bums to let loose or take a dump
For those times when you want to get robbed above the city instead of down on the street.
It’s more of a Shelbyville idea
3/18/2018 12:07:00 AM
I see what you did there!
Monorail!
I know some of the Batman movies were filmed here but we don't need to make the city look like Gotham. We already have worse crime.
From the affluent Upper East Side of NYC, they have a tram that crosses the East River to Roosevelt Island.
Not a real good use of pension money.
I see it happening now, the new fad will be tram jacking.
This turkey will fly
Take A Look At The "Mess" They Have Made of "Northern Island"! Been Torn Up For Years. No One Speaks Of The Failed Project. How About "Soldier Field"? "Thank You Sir, May I Have Another"?
Rahms maximizing stupidity here:
Running tab for DOJ investigation of CPD: $7.4 million and counting
https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/running-tab-for-doj-investigation-of-cpd-7-4-million-and-counting/
Gee whose getting all this taxpayers millions?
The new totals were released by the city in response to a Freedom of Information request. They include $3.3 million to Taft Stettinius & Hollister through January; nearly $2.1 million through December to the Washington, D.C., law firm of Wilmer Hale, which once counted Corporation Counsel Edward Siskel as a partner; $1.7 million to The Bromwich Group through January; and $230,372 to Polis Solutions Inc. through August.
Siskel did not participate in the DOJ probe. Wilmer Hale continued its work for the city even after Siskel replaced Steve Patton as corporation counsel.
The consulting fees include a previously disclosed $4,000 paid last summer to former Washington, D.C., police chief Cathy Lanier. One month later, Lanier retired to become senior vice president of security for the National Football League.
* even a Washington police chief gets a little cut? Will the money “funnel” back to rahm and friends? Just read the dumbest of dumb the Irish morons are inviting rahm to get a big award in Ireland, will taxpayers foot this bill? Thought rahm was Jewish but yet he is being honored out of the country! Expect he was tipped off a big scandal will break when he is “out of town,”
What's at the river walk?
Never been there.
3/18/2018 10:39:00 AM
Sewage and restaurants.
Wait, won't that cut into JB Pritzgers off shore company,boat dealing in the Chinatown area?
Thanks, My fine Hindu friend...
Monorail!!!
Monorail?
MONORAIL!
Great another hunting ground right downtown. 8magine being trapped with a positive intent on doing you harm suspended 50-60 feet off ground or river. Can you Fly? Of course this will be a gun free zone unless your one of the anointed gangbusters, they make themselves exempt from the silly laws. But so do I better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6. Just saying.
Follow the money, in this instance, ask yourself who does Larry Geller contribute to?
Take A Look At The "Mess" They Have Made of "Northern Island"! Been Torn Up For Years. No One Speaks Of The Failed Project. How About "Soldier Field"? "Thank You Sir, May I Have Another"?
3/18/2018 09:31:00 PM
You mean Northerly Island? I went to a concert there about 5 years ago. You can't land a plane there anymore, but it's not torn up. By the way, capitalizing every word in your idiotic post just makes you look dumber.
What better way to say the criminals are winning. And after they get on the trams in the sky, then what?
Would have been easier and cheaper to put the criminals in prison.
J.J.
This is just to raise campaign cash needed by mayor pay to play for his run off election coming up. He needs to get the uneducated incompetent crooked contractors and construction scum from Bridgeport, canaryville, Indiana and the south suburbs jobs to build unnecessary taxpayer financed projects. Enough of this nonsense. What's the so called us attorney doing? What’s the fbi doing? Looks like Rahm can do no wrong. Fardon let him slide now this south suburban clown from Joliet is doing the same. Come on sessions, lower the boom.
“Don't worry, they will get Barack Obams's Administration to pony up the money in a federal grant. Rahm's close relationship will with him will really pay off.”
Did you just wake up from a coma? He’s been out of office for 15months.
The Tram at The Summerfest Grounds in Milwaukee is a nice relaxing way to enjoy a cold brew and take in the view of the Lakefront.
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