From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Every so often, I drive around the construction areas on the O'Hare campus   
   to try to figure out where all the value comes from for the billions spent.   
      
   The new intersection with the Access Road from the relocated east-west road   
   to the south of the campus caught my eye. It still leads to the same   
   temporary road, but now completed is the brand-new subway under the   
   yet-to-be-built southern-most runway. It will lead to the cargo docks of   
   many of the air freight carriers, entirely on the land side.   
      
   It's massive.   
      
   Given the discussion of what airports elsewhere in the world are doing   
   with direct intercity rail access to passenger air terminals, it sure looks   
   like it wouldn't have been too costly nor too dangerous to do with   
   rail. Ideally, UP Milwaukee subdivision (ex-C&NW) would have just run   
   across the center of the campus, north and south, in a cut. Then we would   
   have had direct access to Terminals 2 and 3.   
      
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