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Old 08-16-2008, 04:42 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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The bike ride down Lawrence is not easy. In the winter it will not work too well riding down Lawrence from Ravenswood.
True enough but her S/O can hop on the Metra in Ravenswood, ride down to the Clybourn stop, and transfer to the UPNW line there. A minor inconvenience but it's still a pretty manageable commute as long as the office is right next to the train station in Palatine as the OP implies.
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Old 08-16-2008, 05:18 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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True enough but her S/O can hop on the Metra in Ravenswood, ride down to the Clybourn stop, and transfer to the UPNW line there. A minor inconvenience but it's still a pretty manageable commute as long as the office is right next to the train station in Palatine as the OP implies.
Would he not have to buy passes for each line then? I do not know their financial postion, but...

Clybourn to Palatine is $128.25 monthly. Ravenswood to Clybourn is $63.45 monthly. CTA pass is $75 monthly. $266.70 sure is quite a lot to pay for one persons public transit costs per month. I guess if the guy does not mind paying $3200 a year to ride trains and buses he should go for it.

Ravenwood is not a small area. Unless they can get a place really close to the stop it is not going to be quite that easy.

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Old 08-16-2008, 06:41 PM
 
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Would he not have to buy passes for each line then? I do not know their financial postion, but...

Clybourn to Palatine is $128.25 monthly. Ravenswood to Clybourn is $63.45 monthly. CTA pass is $75 monthly. $266.70 sure is quite a lot to pay for one persons public transit costs per month. I guess if the guy does not mind paying $3200 a year to ride trains and buses he should go for it.

Ravenwood is not a small area. Unless they can get a place really close to the stop it is not going to be quite that easy.
Wow, I guess I didn't consider that the lines each have individual monthly costs - here i can ride all the buses and trains in portland for 70/month. Yow! So, seems like something near clybourn is our best bet. (bucktown, wicker, ukranian village?) He will probably have to take a short bus ride to the Clybourn stop no matter what. Anyone have any other suggestions (as far as what I am looking for in a neighborhood) that might be near a Metra UPNW stop?? Going down to clybourn from ravenswood just doesn't sound like a reasonable thing to do.
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Old 08-16-2008, 07:51 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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Wow, I guess I didn't consider that the lines each have individual monthly costs - here i can ride all the buses and trains in portland for 70/month. Yow! So, seems like something near clybourn is our best bet. (bucktown, wicker, ukranian village?) He will probably have to take a short bus ride to the Clybourn stop no matter what. Anyone have any other suggestions (as far as what I am looking for in a neighborhood) that might be near a Metra UPNW stop?? Going down to clybourn from ravenswood just doesn't sound like a reasonable thing to do.
Thing is, Metra is a different system than the CTA. There is no "universal pass" or transfer from one system to the other. That said, anyone with a Metra monthly pass can also get a "Link-Up" pass for unlimited CTA rides from 6-9:30am and 3:30-7pm for $36. So you wouldn't necessarily have to get a CTA full-fare monthly pass just for commute purposes

I don't know if you have to buy two completely separate passes to transfer from one Clybourn line to the other or not. I would think it would just add one zone, but I don't really know. If you do have to buy two separate Metra passes, then yeah, maybe that's not so practical from a cost-effectiveness standpoint. If you really do have to buy two separate monthly passes, that's something Metra might want to look into because that's kind of silly.
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Old 08-18-2008, 08:02 AM
 
Location: Tower Grove East, St. Louis, MO
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So, seems like something near clybourn is our best bet. (bucktown, wicker, ukranian village?) He will probably have to take a short bus ride to the Clybourn stop no matter what.

I think it would be ideal if you could live right off of Armitage or Ashland so that it would only be one bus to the Clybourn metra in the morning. If you live along Division or Chicago or North or Damen etc., you'd have to take two buses in the morning before your train commute
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Old 08-18-2008, 08:09 PM
 
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I think it would be ideal if you could live right off of Armitage or Ashland so that it would only be one bus to the Clybourn metra in the morning. If you live along Division or Chicago or North or Damen etc., you'd have to take two buses in the morning before your train commute
It is faster to walk than to wait for any of those buses. They all are pretty sucky. Particularly Armitage.

Ashland is always bunched up...
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Old 08-19-2008, 12:12 PM
 
Location: Tower Grove East, St. Louis, MO
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Hmmm sorry didn't know that. The only two I take are the Damen and the North and I've had great luck with both of them ...
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Old 08-19-2008, 03:06 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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Am I really the first to mention the whole "biking 4.5 miles in snow" thing.....
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Old 08-19-2008, 06:35 PM
 
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Am I really the first to mention the whole "biking 4.5 miles in snow" thing.....
I was thinking the same thing. Don't get me wrong. I'm a huge advocate of public transportation. We own 1 car and my husband hasn't driven to work in over 6 years. However, he works downtown and can take the subway. I'm still leaning towards the OP looking at Edison Park. Sure, it's not Wicker Park, LP, Ravenswood, etc. but the drive to Palatine would not be bad, it would be a lot less hassle than the 4.5 bike ride in winter or having to take buses to trains, etc. and on weekends she/he can get to Jeff Park to take the Blue Line into the city to go out and party. And have more money to do it considering the rents will be less in Edison Park. Every neighborhood in the city has neighborhood bars and restaurants to hang out in. And Edison Park is not geriatric and all families. I have single friends that live in the area and have decent social lives. Just my opinion.
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Old 08-19-2008, 07:40 PM
 
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Metra passes are priced by zone (distance from Chicago). One that includes Palatine (Zone F) will also include any station in the city.
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