So many US cities have situations like this.

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    The other side of the station probably has a destination. There’a also one like this in Boston; right against I-93 South on one side, stores and neighborhood on the other. They’ve just crammed all the transit into the smallest corridor possible.

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      As others have said, it’s near a university.

      However, this isn’t how you should build public transit, along a corridor. It a) restricts the other mode of transport for evermore b) it encourages growth near the station (which isn’t what you would want) c) discourages walking cities d) it’s loud af e) it’s not in the centre of an area but the outskirts which means it’s less usable for the majority of the area and more for only the people hemmed around the highway.

      It’s like nobody looks at city maps from around the world and how passenger suburban and city rail is a new/difficult concept.

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      No, it’s in the median of the Dan Ryan Expressway / Interstate 94. The other side is the other direction of traffic. I’ve seen it in person. It is among the shittiest of shitty American transit stations.