Loyola & Northwestern

kyler242
Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:10:55 +0000

This takes forever.



Yeah, but when you’re with friends who cares.



If you leave downtown at 11 PM on a Saturday, it will take you a minimum of one hour to up to an hour and a half to get back from somewhere in the loop to Evanston.



Actually, it is much closer to 45 minutes to an hour from the North Loop area. You can practically get from Midway Airport to Evanston in an hour and a half!



That is making the big presumption that the trains are running on time in bad weather, which is like five months out of the school year.



True, they do get backed up every once in a while, but in my experience it has not usually been because of weather. More like something or someone falls in front of the train.



But it is hardly a breeze to rely on the public transportation system.



I agree with the “breeze” part. But I don’t know anywhere in America where public transportation is not to some extent a pain in the ass.



It is ridiculous that to see a normal movie or go to a decent restaurant at UChicago you need to go downtown.



That is ridiculous, Hyde Park seems like it’s big enough to support at least one movie theatre.