Midway travel question

JHS
Tue, 06 Sep 2016 16:51:46 +0000

@Zinhead ,while I understand it annoys you that I am speaking primarily from personal and non-systematic second-hand experience, it annoys the heck out of me that you are spouting off about this when it is completely clear that you have never ridden the bus in question or spoken about it with anyone who has, and have no idea what the actual thing is like. I don’t think you are being elitist.

@marlowe1 , I don’t doubt your experience at all. I do think to some extent it’s a relic of the high water mark of what was effectively a Black separatist ideology in the late 1960s and early 1970s. I don’t hear stories like that so much anymore. Also, I never have been, or heard anyone else talk about being, challenged as a racial interloper for riding public transportation through a minority neighborhood without getting off. My impression is that people (young men) who might be very concerned with “turf” issues for pedestrians, or bicyclists or drivers off major thoroughfares, don’t care much about seeing different people on the bus or the El through their neighborhood.

I have no personal experience of the 63rd St. Green Line El station, but for years UChicago students on CC who live in BJ (or more recently in South Campus) have consistently said that they take the Green Line there and it’s no big deal. My kid, whose office is south of the Midway, uses the 63rd St. Green Line station if he doesn’t bike to work, but I have never thought to ask him about it.