by eolesen
rohr turbo wrote:For your 4.5 hr claim to be true, you must live in such an inaccessable place that it's almost 2 hours to CUS or Glenview. That may be true for you, but likely isn't for probably 2 million other Chicagoans.I suspect that time is true for a lot more people than you think it is.
I live 35 miles outside of downtown directly on one of the Metra lines, and when you factor the time it takes to get downtown and having enough time between trains, it works out to at least two hours from the time I step on Metra until I can depart on Amtrak. My Station to Willis Tower used to take 80 minutes assuming everything ran on time.
Just about anyone living in Cook, Kane or DuPage County on a Metra line is going to have a similar 30-60 minute or so ride just to get to Olgilvie or Union Station. Taking CTA is going to work out to be just about the same since there is no immediately adjacent CTA line to Union Station.
If you're coming in from either Will, Kane or McHenry County, bump that up to 90 minutes. I won't even try to guess how long it takes to get for someone who has to arrive at Millennium or LaSalle and transfer over to Union.
Having trains departing two or three times a day isn't going to change that.
God help you if you have luggage or need a wheelchair on any of those options...
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