Loyola & Northwestern

uchicagoalum
Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:11:00 +0000

This takes forever. I looked it up on the CTA website to make sure I was not screwing it up when I did it myself. 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. 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.

Dropping $10 on a taxi is not exactly enjoyable either, especially if you do it both ways to Howard, but I could see it working if you are going out in a group. I presume they hang around the station.

It is not like the school is isolated. But it is hardly a breeze to rely on the public transportation system. It is kind of a downer if you are going to go out for one evening a week and spend two to three hours on a train to cover 20 miles in total. On the other hand, there is so much more to do in Evanston off campus that it seems to compensate. It is ridiculous that to see a normal movie or go to a decent restaurant at UChicago you need to go downtown.