Metra Bike Blackout Friday

The Tribune is reporting that Metra will be banning bikes on Friday due to the Blackhawks parade.

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Permalink Reply by Crazy David 84 Furlongs on June 27, 2013 at 8:21am

Isn't the normal Metra capacity issue car availability and platform length?   The engines that pull Metra trains can handle more cars with very little additional cost.    Maybe Metra charges extra for the Bike Car.   I also understand that it would be possible (although so unprofitable that it would not happen for us) to pay Metra to add a private car to a train.   The Deerpath, a private club, is the only one that I know of.

Permalink Reply by Bez on June 27, 2013 at 8:39am

If they are going to add bike cars (and they really should), it should be the one right by the locomotive. It's easier to tell passengers in the last car (that would be off the platform) that they need to move forward one car to exit than to try to deal with getting bikes off because the car is off the platform.

Frankly, they Metra blackout on bikes during rush and any date they feel like drives me nuts.  They need to figure that out.  As it stands now, if I want to ride in the city, I put my bike on the back of my car and guilt my way to my buddy's house to park.

It's been a long time, but I was once kicked off in the middle of a ride out to Geneva (to visit my grandparents in Batavia) because the conductor felt that the half empty car was too full to have a bike in it.  I ended up in tiny little town along the route.  I was so irritated that I called my uncle to come get me with his pickup.  This was, of course, after they implemented the bikes allowed on trains rules.

Permalink Reply by igz on June 27, 2013 at 11:17am
with the reverse commute issue, I wish I mentioned, in regards to the Milwaukee west line, there are about three maybe four empty and closed off train cars...
Permalink Reply by daWillinChi on June 27, 2013 at 12:19pm
If you are the same conductors, maybe you can ask about tomorrow's restrictions.
I do think that the worse parts would be in the morning coming in and early afternoon going out.
Reverse commutersay have a problem in the morning, but they may let you slide in the afternoon.
Permalink Reply by Peter G. on June 27, 2013 at 12:34pm

I'd suggest that Metra fire its management team, but at $740k a pop, that could add up quickly. 

Permalink Reply by Noah Weiss 1.2 km on June 27, 2013 at 2:22pm
And now CTA has blacked out bikes on Friday (Blackhawks parade) and Sunday (Pride Parade) for the whole day. Grr... I was planning on carrying my bike on the train on Sunday...
Permalink Reply by Jared on June 27, 2013 at 4:46pm

Well you can use Metra...

Noah Weiss 1.2 km said:

And now CTA has blacked out bikes on Friday (Blackhawks parade) and Sunday (Pride Parade) for the whole day. Grr... I was planning on carrying my bike on the train on Sunday...
Permalink Reply by Steve Weeks on June 28, 2013 at 12:17am

Although this is not a completely satisfactory solution, folding bikes (bagged) are permitted at all times.

Steve

Permalink Reply by igz on June 28, 2013 at 3:03am

with the blackout - this is what i would expect to see...

Permalink Reply by igz on June 28, 2013 at 3:06am

but instead...

Permalink Reply by JohnK on June 28, 2013 at 3:27am
The Blackhawks are the Lacrosse team right? We had to talk are way into the Bike Center this morning to get our shower -- the guard said we should have seen it on the News. "Hey, I don't own a t.v.". The SE stairtower @ LSD and the river was locked this morning. Is that related? Had to backtrack and take the long way to the riverwalk detour. Why don't they just shutdown the whole loop?
Permalink Reply by JohnK on June 28, 2013 at 3:30am
The Blackhawks are the Lacrosse team right? We had to talk our way into the Bike Center this morning to get our shower -- the guard said we should have seen it on the News. "Hey, I don't own a t.v.". The SE stairtower @ LSD and the river was locked this morning. Is that related? Had to backtrack and take the long way to the riverwalk detour. Why don't they just shutdown the whole loop?

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