8. Airports

A separate concept is to build a rail connection between O'Hare and Mitchell Field. Amtrak's current statutory monopoly on intercity traffic could prohibit this concept.... At Mitchell Field the rail lines are:

• Soo Line on West boundary
• New Line on East boundary
• Kenosha sub 3 miles east of Mitchell

Layton Avenue (south of St. Francis) runs east and west along the north perimeter of Mitchell Field....

Mitchell Field is within Milwaukee's City limits. It has a great indoor parking lot next to an underutilized, modern terminal. This is uncongested compared to O'Hare and could easily handle many more flights. More Illinois residents especially from the north shore would use it if it were connected by commuter rail. Airlines go where the passengers are....

Three airports are capacity controlled by the FAA:

• O'Hare
• LaGuardia
• Washington National

....rail is:

• cheaper
• not slowed by weather
• unaffected by surface congestion
• unaffected by air traffic congestion

Air commuter service ended between Frankfort, Cologne and Dusselforf when this service began being handled by commuter rail....

It's 60 miles from Winnetka to Mitchell Field. Extending the UP North Line to Mitchell Field would result in a 35 minutes rail trip instead of the current 60 minute drive....

Rank: 1994	1993	Markets Connected:		Passengers: 1994	1993	Percent Change
1	4	Seattle/Tacoma	Spokane	520,264	389,354	33.6
2	1	Seattle/Tacoma	Portland, OR	479,002	380,576	-0.3
3	8	Chicago/O'Hare	Milwaukee	477,780	325,449	46.8
4	2	Denver	Aspen	433,467	447,772	-3.2
5	5	Las Vegas McCarran	Grank Canyon	423,721	385,669	9.9
6	7	Los Angeles	San Diego	212,342	332,647	24.0
7	9	Chicago/O'Hare	Madison	360,508	322143	11.9
8	6	Chicago/O'Hare	South Bend	356,982	352,651	1.2
9	11	Miami	Nassau International	242,848	270,900	26.6
10	15	Miami	Key West	285,496	248,630	19.2
11	10	San Juan	St. Thomas	279,645	272,302	2.7
12	3	Boston	New York Kennedy	275,038	398,034	-30.9
13	16	Dallas/Ft. Worth	Fayetteville, AR	243,216	223,668	8.7
14	18	Chicago/O'Hare	Fort Wayne	242,656	208,778	16.2
15	160	Dallas/Ft. Worth	Wichita	239,555	78,820	203.9
16	12	Chicago/O'Hare	Moline	233,321	264,184	-11.7
17	55	Miami	Tampa	228,785	138,292	65.4
18	21	Anchorage	Kenai	227,706	201,960	12.7
19	20	Los Angeles	Palm Springs	209,230	202,581	3.3
20	28	Dallas/Ft. Worth	Springfield, MO	203,355	164,419	23.7
21	17	San Francisco	Reno	200,561	217,512	-7.8
22	41	Miami	Orlando	200,415	150,176	33.5
23	14	New York Kennedy	Washington National	199,615	260,326	-23.3
24	13	Chicago/O'Hare	Greenbay	195,682	260,921	-25.0
25	56	Newark	Washington Dulles	193,622	136,994	41.3
26	19	Chicago/O'Hare	Appleton	192,945	204,036	-5.4
27	193	Dallas/Ft. Worth	Lubbock	191,058	69,316	175.6
28	42	Los Angeles	Santa Barbara	190,006	149,549	27.1
29	170	Dallas/Ft. Worth	Corpus Christi	188,911	76,161	148.0
30	31	Los Angeles	Fresno	187,488	160,447	16.9
31	49	Seattle/Tacoma	Boise	180,421	142,342	26.8
32	50	Portland, OR	Spokane	180,249	135,464	33.1
33	27	Seattle/Tacoma	Beelingham	176,786	164,593	7.4
34	26	Denver	Grank Junction	174,664	167,017	4.6
35	29	Chicago/O'Hare	Cedar Rapids	169,477	162,313	4.4
36	46	Dallas/Ft. Worth	Ft. Smith	168,489	147,616	14.1
37	30	San Francisco	Sacramento	163,216	160,884	1.4
38	81	Dallas/Ft. Worth	Midland/Odessa	163,112	11,814	45.9
39	54	Chicago/O'Hare	Peoria	162,680	138,574	17.4
40	118	Chicago/O'Hare	Dayton	161,865	91,215	77.5
41	39	Seattle/Tacoma	Pasco	158,632	152,517	4.0
42	757	Chicago/O'Hare	Youngstown	158,621	3,891	3,976.6
43	37	Denver	Rapid City	158,189	153,150	3.3
44	25	Chicago/O'Hare	Kalamazoo	156,720	167,827	-6.6
45	35	Los Angeles	Monterey	155,246	156,381	-0.7
46	113	Newark	Rochester, NY	153,259	95,900	59.8
47	44	Chicago/O'Hare	Lansing	153,086	149,102	2.7
48	36	Dallas/Ft. Worth	Tyler	152,701	155,937	-2.1
49	65	Miami	Jacksonville, FL	149,763	128,152	16.9
50	33	San Francisco	Fresno	149,751	160,031	-6.4
51	60	Atlanta	Ft. Walton Beach	147,016	134,218	9.5
52	45	Hyannis	Nantucket	146,017	148,469	-1.6
53	24	St. Croix	St. Thomas	145,719	170,180	-14.4
54	68	San Juan	St. Croix	143,439	126,043	13.8
55	89	Newark	Hartford	143,076	107,563	33.0
56	38	Philadelphia	Washington National	142,852	153,090	-6.7
57	58	Dallas/Ft. Worth	Lafayette, LA	142,765	135,715	5.2
58	52	Charlotte	Hilton Head	142,012	141,266	0.5
59	73	Portland, OR	Bend/Redmond	141,468	118,462	19.4
60	51	Chicago/O'Hare	Traverse City	141,377	141,296	0.1
61	82	Portland, OR	Boise	141,198	110,054	28.3
62	74	Los Angeles	San Luis Obispo	138,435	114,958	20.4
63	22	Boston	Portland, ME	137,458	184,676	-25.6
64	111	Newark	Burlington, VT	137,310	86,708	42.0
65	71	Chicago/O'Hare	Wausau/Stevens Pt	137,208	121,976	12.5
66	47	Chicago/O'Hare	Rockford	136,042	145,398	-6.4
67	66	Seattle/Tacoma	Yakima	134,978	127,890	5.5
68	32	Miami	Nassau-Paradise Island	134,964	160,191	-15.7
69	307	Dallas/Ft. Worth	Tulsa	134,651	49,380	172.7
70	34	Boston	Bangor	134,142	157,888	-15.0
71	40	Chicago/O'Hare	Toledo	133,594	150,446	-11.2
72	93	Newark	Manchester	130,489	104,976	24.3
73	78	Newark	Albany, NY	129,312	113,367	14.1
74	108	Cincinnati	Toronto	129,262	98,582	31.1
75	62	Dallas/Ft. Worth	Lawton/Ft. Sill	129,110	132,649	-2.8
76	23	New York Kennedy	Philadelphia	128,660	176,944	-27.3
77	152	Dallas/Ft. Worth	Shreveport	127,549	80,938	57.6
78	63	Dallas/Ft. Worth	Beaumont/Port Arthur	126,774	131,827	-3.8
79	87	Detroit	Flint	126,458	107,627	17.5
80	86	St.Louis	Peoria	126,067	108,782	15.9
81	70	Dallas/Ft. Worth	Abilene	125,675	123,385	1.9
82	103	Honolulu	Kapalua	124,639	101,283	23.1
83	72	Portland, OR	Medford	120,307	120,952	-0.5
84	69	St.Louis	Springfield, MO	120,137	125,757	-4.5
85	190	Dallas/Ft. Worth	Amarillo	119,970	69,998	71.4
86	83	Dallas/Ft. Worth	Killeen	119,770	109,863	9.0
87	92	Charlotte	New Bern	118,650	105,540	12.4
88	389	Las Vegas McCarran	Grand Canyon	118,496	40,865	190.0
89	50	Denver	Durango	118,128	141,949	-16.8
90	80	Dallas/Ft. Worth	Wichita Falls	117,794	112,383	4.8
91	84	Newark	Syracuse	116,927	109,782	6.5
92	79	Dallas/Ft. Worth	College Station	116,110	112,764	3.0
93	57	New York LaGuardia	Providence	115,911	136,889	-15.3
94	132	Miami	Fort Meyers	115,901	86,053	34.7
95	98	Cincinnati	Cleveland	115,859	102,725	12.8
96	85	Miami	Freeport	114,501	109,465	4.6
97	67	Ft. Lauderdale	Nassau Paradise Island	113,917	127,621	-10.7
98	373	Raleigh/Durham	Wilmington, NC	112,749	42,403	165.9
99	64	Boston	Burlington, VT	111,998	128,580	-12.9
100	90	Houston International	Houston Ellington	111,765	105,912	5.5

Mitchell Field's terminal is on its west side....

At St. Francis, Wisconsin, (mile post 79.9) three lines join--the New Line sub, Kenosha sub and National Avenue Spur. The Milwaukee yard is at Butler, Wisc. From St. Francis to Milwaukee (4 miles) is the National Avenue Spur. It is not a main line. It can not handle passengers or hazardous material. The line from Kenosha North ends at St. Francis....

The stop at Forest Hill Road on the border between the municipalities of the City of South Milwaukee and Oak Creek....

The three bridges over Oklahoma, Kinnickinick and Russell avenues have been changed from carrying four tracks to only one. The multiple track bridges were removed by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation and replaced with a single track bridge and a bridge to carry a petroleum pipeline....The Lake (Arterial) Parkway:

• Concrete safety barriers between railroad and Parkway will be formed and painted to look like a field stone wall.
• Four lane divided roadway will use Union Pacific Railroad right- of-way to minimize home relocation. West side tracks will be maintained by Union Pacific.
• Approximately 3 miles long, from Layton Avenue (just east of Mitchell Airport) to Carferry Drive (end of Hoan Bridge).
• Access, spaced at one mile intervals, will be at Layton Avenue, Howard Avenue, Oklahoma Avenue and Carferry Drive.
• Will have 18 bridges constituted for 10 crossings.
• Concrete bridge abutments will be formed and painted to look like limestone blocks.
• Concrete retaining walls will have a ribbed texture and be painted a light brown color.
• Speed limit will be 40 mph.
• Construction is 50% completed.
• Will open to traffic in the summer of 1999.

North of Bayview, double track begins and continues north to the intersection with Greenfield--an east-west street. There are two swing bridges. The more southerly is over the Kinnickinic River. It has two sets of tracks on it. On the south side of Milwaukee is a swing bridge over the Kinnickinic River (KK). The River has navigational traffic.....

At Washington Street (three blocks north of Greenfield), one UP track bears to the left. It connects to the Soo Line/CP/Milwaukee Road that northbound Amtrak trains take to Milwaukee's Amtrak passenger station. The crossover from UP to CP tracks is.....