Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about South Shore Line

Leave Traffic Behind With These 6 Car-Free, Carefree Beach Trips

By John Greenfield | Aug 13, 2014 | 24 Comments

If, like me, you optimistically view the summer as lasting until September 22, we’ve got more than five more weeks of beach season left. Still, time is running out for fun in the sun, so you should make a beeline for the shoreline as soon as possible. While people often gripe that Chicago has limited […]

South Shore Line Looks Into Accommodating Bikes on Trains

By Steven Vance | May 15, 2013 | 5 Comments

Two weeks ago, at a friend’s suggestion, I started a petition to lobby the South Shore Line to allow bicycles on trains, which currently has 125 signers. Our motivation was mostly selfish: We want to be able to travel to the Dunes National Lakeshore and other places in northwest Indiana with our bikes. So I […]