Metra

It’s is for the line that hits Geneva, Wheaton, College Station, Lombard, Oak Park etc…
So after 10 years nothing changes I see… I used to ride this line during college when I commuted for a year.
Things that have changed
1. Now you have digital boards that tell us where were are headed
2. The seats are now a shade of blue rather than orange or a weird minty/​peas green colour
3. The speaker system when announcing stops are actually audible
4.There are quiet cars during certain hours (though Metra doesn’t seem to enforce them)
5. The College Station stop actually looks nice rather than some run down little hut.
6. the bathrooms are quite large?
Things hat have not changed and probably never will
1. The smell is disgusting… it hasn’t changed
2. The Rude, Mean and just plain evil Conductors.
3.dirty…very dirty. The seats are dirty and floor are filthy and where I was sitting the walls were filthy… like black stuff everywhere. The window where I was sitting had all these oil marks all over the window… gross.
4. How loud and rude people are (I guess this one is not Metra’s fault).
I will only take Metra when absolutely necessary… it would be my last resort… yes I think it is that bad.

Disgustingly dirty and often off schedule.
O Metra how you have decayed. Back in the 90s when I was a daily rider, you were on time, affordable, clean and staffed with polite employees.
Now, like a fat lady, you have let yourself go; and you just don’t care .
The on board rest rooms are nasty. The trains are often late and the conductors are just angry.
I’d rather drive just about any day of the week.

9÷28÷11 THIS REVIEW WAS ORIGINALLY FOR THE MILWAUKEE DISTRICT WEST LINE. HOWEVER, SOME BORED IDIOT EDITED THE INFORMATION I SUBMITTED TO PUT THIS LINE ON Unilocal FOR OTHERS TO REVIEW IT, WHILE I WAS SLEEPING. GET A LIFE JACKASS! UNION STATION, WHERE THIS LINE CAN BE FOUND, ISN’T LOCATED NEAR ADAMS AND MILWAUKEE. TWO STREETS THAT COME NOWHERE NEAR TO INTERSECTING EACH OTHER! AND METRA, THE AGENCY, IS ALREADY LISTED ON Unilocal SO NO NEED TO CREATE DUPLICATES!
Rode this line this past Saturday for the first time ever, and it’s pretty much like every other Metra line I’ve ridden so far. The trains are speedy, and they are on time, quiet, and clean. This line offers a spectacular view of rolling prairie and farmland past Schaumburg, which is something I really, really love.
What I discovered while riding the train was that the Mars station on this line isn’t called the Mars station for nothing. I remember in ’95, when I was an extreme train lover, and was dying to ride Metra trains, that I saw the station while looking at a schedule acquired during that period, and would often show it to my mother and ask her, «Can we go to Mars and search for Martians for me to play with?» LOL. Yeah, I was just trying to be funny at that time, but I had the notion that it had that name for a much more logical reason. On Saturday, I found out that the station is named Mars because… it is next to a chocolate candy factory that manufactures Mars Candy products such as my faves, Twix, 3 Musketeers, and Milky Way.
The return trip was just odd for me. I stayed awake the whole trip until the train arrived at Western Station, which is the last stop before Union Station. And then the next thing I know, I was being tapped on the shoulder by a couple passengers and a conductor while the train was stopped at US and almost entirely empty. First time ever that I’ve fallen asleep on a bus or train, although I use to come freakishly, extremely close to doing so when riding Orange Line trains on weeknights. Oh well, there’s a first for everything.