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Permalink Reply by Yasmeen on April 28, 2015 at 3:39am

This is usually where they have the information on bike bans:

http://metrarail.com/metra/en/home/utility_landing/riding_metra/bik...

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Permalink Reply by Zachary Corn on April 28, 2015 at 6:44am

Ha! I just read this and was all proud that I may have thought of it before you, even though someone else had posted it.....

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Permalink Reply by Ash L. on April 28, 2015 at 7:16am

Get a room!

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Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on April 28, 2015 at 7:50am

plus 1

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Permalink Reply by Greg Valent on April 30, 2015 at 5:21am

An alternative is CTA bus route 30. You can catch it at Ave O and Brainard, near the Hegewisch South Shore station and Burger King. It will drop you off at the 69th st. Red Line station. It's about as far south and east as you can go and still be in Chicago, I think.

http://www.transitchicago.com/assets/1/bus_schedules/30.pdf

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Permalink Reply by Steve Weeks on April 30, 2015 at 11:22am

I'm not familiar with the METRA Electric line, but I assume their bike policy is the same as the diesel lines. One possible solution is to take a folding bike: as long as it's in a bag, it's not a bike... it's "luggage", and as such is not subject to any black-out periods at all.

Steve

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Permalink Reply by Paul Rotatori on May 7, 2015 at 8:58am

If you ever head back out to Indiana, the South Shore Line, that goes through Indiana and is run by NICTD does not allow bikes on their trains. Yet...hopefully.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Schwab on May 7, 2015 at 9:51am

 http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-09-29/news/chi-south-shore-...

South Shore officials said several safety and customer service challenges must be resolved, including that some stations have low-level boarding platforms that make it difficult to hoist bicycles up and through the narrow stairwell entrances on trains.

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Permalink Reply by Darrien Sommer on May 7, 2015 at 5:51pm

anyone know if there are usually bike bans on Memorial Day weekend? planning on heading out on Saturday night for the Gravel Metric.

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