document updated 14 years ago, on May 10, 2010
Distance/time:
- it's 6.9 miles of biking (each way)
- it's 8.7 miles of biking (each way) if I want to save $0.50 on the train ticket (each way)
- the train ride will take 48 minutes (each way; includes a 10 minute early-arrival time to make sure I don't miss the train)
- all in all, that's an average of 90 minutes each way
Options generally:
Non-viable options:
- Wheeling Metra
- the North Central Service barely ever runs
- there's no good way to get over there (you'd think there'd be a bus line, but there isn't)
Optimizations:
- Both UP-NW stations are in the E zone, so there's no benefit to stopping closer (other than the ~5 minutes it takes for the train to get from one to the other). Both stations have agents available in the morning.