Alright Chicagoans, what's the farthest trip under the city you can make without going outside?
Probably Hong Kong to South Bend. Go inside at Hong Kong's Chek Lap airport, board a 777 to Chicago, get off, find CTA blue line, go downtown, traverse pedway to red line, ride up a stop to Lake, traverse pedway to Millenium Station, board South Shore train to South Bend. You have to exit the train there. The long and short of it is that Chicago's pedway is quite extensive and well connected. It was recently the feature of an article in New City called "A Subterranean Safari in the Chicago Pedway". You can find that article here:
http://newcity.com/2012/02/15/notes-fro ... go-pedway/
"The Pedway is downtown’s network of indoor pedestrian pathways, including below-ground tunnels, street-level concourses and overhead skyways, covering about five miles, and connecting more than forty city blocks. Tens of thousands of downtown workers use it every day to traverse the Loop without having to deal with cold, heat, rain, snow or the Loop’s hectic, often dangerous, street traffic. “If you know how to navigate it, it’s surprising how far you can travel underground,” says Tim Samuelson, the City of Chicago’s Cultural Historian."
Probably Hong Kong to South Bend. Go inside at Hong Kong's Chek Lap airport, board a 777 to Chicago, get off, find CTA blue line, go downtown, traverse pedway to red line, ride up a stop to Lake, traverse pedway to Millenium Station, board South Shore train to South Bend. You have to exit the train there. The long and short of it is that Chicago's pedway is quite extensive and well connected. It was recently the feature of an article in New City called "A Subterranean Safari in the Chicago Pedway". You can find that article here:
http://newcity.com/2012/02/15/notes-fro ... go-pedway/
"The Pedway is downtown’s network of indoor pedestrian pathways, including below-ground tunnels, street-level concourses and overhead skyways, covering about five miles, and connecting more than forty city blocks. Tens of thousands of downtown workers use it every day to traverse the Loop without having to deal with cold, heat, rain, snow or the Loop’s hectic, often dangerous, street traffic. “If you know how to navigate it, it’s surprising how far you can travel underground,” says Tim Samuelson, the City of Chicago’s Cultural Historian."
The new Acela: It's not Aveliable.
