document updated 14 years ago, on Oct 6, 2010
Getting from Metra/UP-NW to Gerber-Hart library via bike
It's a 7.5mile bike trip that takes ~45 minutes. So I need to arrive at Jefferson Park by 6:15pm at the latest. If I'm coming from here, I need to leave work at 4:49pm and make the 5:29pm train.
- SE on Lipps (parallels Milwaukee, behind the buildings [0.2mi]
- E on Lawrence [1.7mi]
- 4800W / Cicero
- 4500W / Elston
- 4000W / Pulaski
- N on Pulaski [1.0mi]
- E on Bryn Mwar [1.2mi]
- N at the river, taking the trail that's on the EAST side of the river [0.7mi]
- get off the trail and keep going north at Kedzie [1 block]
- E on Granville [2.6mi]
- 2800W / California
- 2400W / Western
- 1800W / Ravenswood/Ridge
- 1600W / Clark
- 1200W / Broadway
- 1127W - you've arrived!
To get home from Gerber-Hart: (9.7mi, ~50 minutes)
- S on any road [0.8mi]
- if you have a choice, Winthrope (just east of the tracks) is good
- E on Ardmore [0.2mi]
- Ardmore ends where the Lakefront Trail begins
- S on Lakefront Trail [4.25mi]
- W at Fullerton
- S on Stockton [3 blocks]
- W on Dickens [1 block]
- S on Lincoln Parkway/Clark St [1 block]
- W on Armitage
(which becomes Cortland, which is my normal commute home)