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Typically the inbound trains were full by the time they reached the Chicago city limits, which is Evanston. Historically there were only three stops within the City, now 4 (unless I'm forgetting some). Part of the reasoning for extending Metra to Milwaukee was for commuting within Wisconsin as...

We've got a Oooo, we've got a YouTube celebrity in our midst!

That's partially because it follows a "water level route," that being the route of the Grand River (oh, I mean Colorado River) from Grand Junction up through the mountains to Granby.

That really is a lovely shot (kudos to the author).

On another board I follow, they were joking that he was kill off sedans with his family size. We're in for interesting times ahead.

Or just get Metra to run to Milwaukee. They are going to be handling the Rockford service in the future (of course, one would have to get some buy in from various counties in Wisconsin .

Weren't the Hi-Level cars slightly lower than the superliners? Like about 8" lower? That's enough to not allow a full height bedroom. It looks like the upper level is only four risers above the hallway, which would be about 24"+/- (probably plus, depending on how high they went with the risers...

My guess is the closing of the local college had a big effect on ridership.

We did that too, or if my mom came took the train and took the bus (did that to Steamboat too), or had my dad's buddy drive us up.

My dad talked about this a lot. One quibble with the Wikipedia article; Michael Reese did not move, it closed and was subsequently torn down.

Yes, yeah, I was thinking of mentioning that...

Fluffy news piece, but positive:

That PDF was an interesting read (well, skim anyways) - lots of transit project approved benefitting mobility.

That's what I did - I discovered that last time I (well, time before last) was in Boston - had to rent a car for work portion of trip and then had time to go into town. Nice walk. I gather it's also easy to Maverick. I see that walkway - doesn't look very pleasant.

There's a reason I take the blue line to/from Logan.... Dumb question, but can you actually walk to the station? I.e. is there a pathway to the rental car center (which is walkable to two blue line stations)?

I kind of wondered that too, especially since the airport is WAY out of town. It looks like end of the existing route only goes to Union Station (see link to map below). https://kcstreetcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/KC-Streetcar_MSE_RFE_ExtensionAlignments-v2.pdf

To add to the historic info: I've met people who took the train up to ski (don't know specifically where, just "Wisconsin" - there are a lot of places within the state that it could have been).

Not a Yooper, are ya, Jis?

Not to be pedantic (heh heh) but Amtrak already serves the UP, just not via rail.

I have to wonder that as well - linking the largest metropolitan area in the state to the state capital (third largest metro area) and second largest metropolitan area and potentially on to the largest city in the region seems to be a major ridership builder.