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One of the biggest holdups for freight traffic is that Chicago's crowded rails must also get hundreds of thousands of commuters to work and home mornings and evenings, and so by an agreement known as the Chicago Protocol, the shared tracks and intersections belong to passenger rail during rush hours.
Part of the reason for the slow speeds is that the train carriages were (famously) built four inches wider than originally intended, limiting the amount they could tilt on curves; other problems include outdated overhead wire systems, shared tracks, too-tight turns and century-old tunnels.
There are high utilization corridors in Europe where intercity passenger, commuter, freight, and even high-speed passenger services operate on shared tracks, and all train movements follow their predefined schedule in highly structured daily timetables that may be planned for a full year in advance.
It is also considered as the system providing regional, relatively frequent services operated at the speeds from 110 to 150 mph between the major and moderate population centers on the distances between 100 and 500 miles with some intermediate stops, grade separated with some dedicated and shared tracks using the positive train control technology [4, 5].
Passenger trains in many corridors run on shared tracks with freight trains.
O'Grady said the possibility of using shared tracks was raised in the environmental reports, and she noted that the change in plans cut the cost to its current $68 billion from $98 billion.
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At Washington Boulevard and Flower Street, the Expo Line and Blue Line converge onto a shared track.
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In total, there are about 91 miles of rail above ground that involve shared track or right of way that will restrict speeds to about 110 mph.
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