Commute from Forest Park/Oak Park to Hyde Park/UChicago is really NOT that bad

[chet everett]

Originally Posted by noid_1985

I doubt it's a shorter commute time by public transit, but I'm sure it saves money.

...to get on a bicycle and pedal down and back everyday.

According to google maps, at an average cycling pace this is a little over 96 minutes each way. Frankly about what it says for public transit. Sure, you'd have to be a little goofy to deliberately choose to live so far from Hyde Park if that's where your job is located and you are such a rabid supporter of "bike to work" but HEY it is possible...

[noid_1985]

Originally Posted by chet everett

...to get on a bicycle and pedal down and back everyday.

According to google maps, at an average cycling pace this is a little over 96 minutes each way. Frankly about what it says for public transit. Sure, you'd have to be a little goofy to deliberately choose to live so far from Hyde Park if that's where your job is located and you are such a rabid supporter of "bike to work" but HEY it is possible...

That would probably be suitable for someone like Jessie69.


Forest Park/ Oak Park are really the only two near west suburbs you could live in and make a commute like this in under two hours using public transportation. Try living in other near west/western suburbs Endless and you will be limited to Pace and Metra.

[chet everett]

Cicero has pretty much the same transit options as Oak Park, though it is not as upscale.

[noid_1985]

Originally Posted by chet everett

Cicero has pretty much the same transit options as Oak Park, though it is not as upscale.

The Blue and Green lines cut through the middle of Oak Park whereas the Pink line is mainly for north Cicero, but yes Cicero does have transit options

[chet everett]

Blue line and BNSF also come through Cicero.

[noid_1985]

Originally Posted by chet everett

Blue line and BNSF also come through Cicero.

BNSF yes, the Blue line doesn't come through the town of Cicero but it is accessible from Austin or Cicero Ave.

[CCrest182]

Originally Posted by chet everett

The problem I have with these kinds of posts is they really are misrepresenting the challenges of public transit in the region. While I generally recommend that folks that have the opportunity to take public transit to get around the region give it some consideration one need not have even as sophisticated an understanding of time & space as Aristole to realize that being far away from your destination and relying on a bus that does not take expressways and does make multiple stops is going to take much longer than driving.

CCrest182 is spot on -- if you needed to get to Loyola Med Center, (or the VA or the state mental health facility all nearby...) a bus from Forest Park would be fine and the little bit extra distance from Oak Park would probably still be more than tolerable.

Getting to UofC is completely different. There are no direct links to rail, no express buses from the western suburbs, a whole lot of other commuters certainly would impact the progress of a bus onnsurface streets much more so than a private vehicle on expressways and just a ridiculously challenging "edge case" of transit boosterism.

If the OP thinks this is "not that bad" (apparently becuase they're from the south where such circuitous bus trips are not uncommon ???) then they might happily endure this but for the benefit of anyone contemplating relocating to the region the fact remains -- Forest Park is an exceedingly inconvent choice if your objective is take public transit to Hyde Park.

Exactly. Even just forgetting about all of the potential traffic, schedules, lines, whatever, the two places are nowhere near each other in terms of proximity. I'm starting to think posts like these are from people who are just trolling...