What's so great about a train station? Besides the cleanliness which is not all that great, there…read moreisn't anything to rave about. Tickets to Union Station are $6.75 from here and prices vary lower and lower depending on your destination. Trains are always clean, conductors are always real friendly, especially to a regular like myself. All in all, it's a wonderful way to get downtown. Plus, you save gas and car mileage! Bravo, Metra! :)

It's the 2nd to last station on the North Central line. This is the line that goes to O'Hare…read moreairport. You would think that for that reason, there would be tons of service on this line as it would definitely help ease some of the traffic into and out of O'Hare. But since the tracks are owned by the freight company and there is only one track in many spots, this is not happening. And there is NO service on the weekend (SAT AND SUN). That in itself kills it. If you can't get there or back from there on the weekend, that eliminates most travelers from taking it as it does no good to only be able to go one way if you have luggage and need your car to get to and from the station. The station itself is fine. After all, it is just a station. Legislators, use some transportation funding to get this line dual tracked all the way north from O'Hare so service can be added.

Metra has its issues as a whole, and my line is poorly managed. That said, the recent fare…read morerestructure lowered my costs a bit so I'm pleased with that. No one works at these stations anymore, you use the app or buy tickets through a machine which is honestly such a bad move. Every time I ride I have to help people who don't know what they're doing because they don't ride regularly or know the system. Yes, metra, you still need humans at the stations! Some conductors are friendly and some don't even bother to check for tickets but it's always better to have a human around regardless. This station is just average. It's better than many stations and much worse than others. They need to address this moving forward, it's ridiculous that some stations have bathrooms, water fountains, and vending machines while some stations don't even have a bench! I was recently caught up in some track construction that made me late for an event. They had no notice online about it so I complained via email. The response I got was that "our records show it was represented on the website" which is a flat out lie. I was on the train looking at the website, looking for a reason we were so delayed, so I'm positive it wasn't mentioned. There's no accountability anymore so don't hold your breath for so much as a "sorry", instead they'll just tell you it's your own fault. Overall I don't really recommend metra if you have a deadline. They're almost always late by a few minutes and sometimes its an hour or more. I get that it's an imperfect system, but they could do so much better.

The best way to get from the suburbs to downtown. When I started taking the Metra, it was always on…read moretime. But with growth in the suburbs, that is no longer the case. For those of you that have ridden other forms of public transportation, think of the CTA in Chicago. No time schedules. They get there when they get there. Metra however, does publish a schedule and they get backlash for it when things out of their control cause them to be late. This would easily be remadied by just not publishing a schedule any longer. That way, when there is a ton of snow on the ground or a heavy rainstorm, it just gets there when it gets there. Don't forget when someone decides to play chicken with the train and loses. Everyone just thinks that their schedule is more important than safety. If all you complainers move back into the city where you came from, the problems would go away. Take all your city rules back there with you too. The suburbs could then go back to being the nice places to live like they were before you brought all your city problems and rules with you.

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