Bikes on South Shore at Last?

Perhaps by next year. . .

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-south-shore-l...

I'd love to be able to take the South Shore to some of the national parks along its route.

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Permalink Reply by S on September 30, 2013 at 4:24am

Looks like you posted this just before I did. Anyhow, anyone know if there's anything we can do to make this happen? People to contact, etc?

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Permalink Reply by Jared on September 30, 2013 at 7:09am

I think Steven Vance already did this.

http://www.change.org/petitions/south-shore-line-allow-bikes-on-trains

Serge Lubomudrov said:

Great news.

I've been thinking about creating a petition on the Change.org to press the South Shore line to allow (and accomodate for, not just allow in a screwy Metra fashion) bicycles on its trains. Maybe it's still worth doing. If local businesses (like breweries, for example), tourism and economic development organizations in North Indiana and Southwest Michigan would sign . . .

Just an idea ;)

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Permalink Reply by Rich S on June 18, 2015 at 5:14am

Active Trans Broken Spoke Award goes to South Shore Line. According to this link maybe by 2021 we'll finally be able to bring a bicycle on one of their trains.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Schwab on November 10, 2015 at 4:30am

http://www.nwitimes.com/business/bikes-ride-south-shore-trains-in-t...

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Permalink Reply by Adam C. on November 10, 2015 at 5:39am

"The runs were successful and gave a limited number of bicycle riders a chance to try them out and see how it will work when the railroad implements a regular weekend schedule of bicycle cars this spring"

Weekends, huh? Well, at least it's a start.