Midway travel question

JHS
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 20:52:29 +0000

@Zinhead , you are free to do whatever you want when you are at Midway. When I, or my wife, or one of our children are at Midway, and want to go to the University of Chicago – something that has happened pretty regularly over the past decade – we take the CTA bus. We think it has the best balance of fast, safe, and cheap, i.e., it’s the most efficient way to get from point A to point B. It may only be 90% as safe as a cab, but both are in the range of 99% safe to begin with, so the difference doesn’t mean anything, and it comes at a high price.

I do like the University of Chicago, and I do promote it, but I don’t ignore things that I think are legitimate issues. Danger on the CTA does not make it to a legitimate issue for me.

I know lots of people who live in Chicagoland and never go near Hyde Park, who are certain that it is a dangerous place, or maybe a dangerous place once you are a block or two off campus. They are wrong. Similarly, if you don’t regularly take the bus on 55th/Garfield, you have no idea what a basically pleasant experience it is. Yes, you see some challenged areas (and you also get to appreciate the somewhat different characters of Black and Hispanic ghettos in Chicago). But no one shoots at you.