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Reverse Commutes Now Often A Daily Slog
This story is part of a series on commuting in America.
It is still as dark as night as Jim Rix steps out of his red brick Chicago bungalow and gets into his car, parked on the street.
Rix is one of many on the roads driving a reverse commute from the city to the suburbs. Over the past couple of decades, suburban job growth has exploded, but in recent years, there's also been a renaissance in urban living, especially among young professionals. The result: In some cities, traffic on the reverse commute is as congested as or worse than traffic going into the city.
As Rix accelerates onto the expressway, traffic is already heavy, though moving a good sign but it's only because he leaves home so early that he's able to beat the worst of morning traffic. "Yesterday, for instance, I didn't leave until 7 o'clock; it took over 90 minutes to get to work and there wasn't anything particular going on."
Crashes or bad weather can make the trip take much longer.
"It's just exhausting. There's nothing to be done with it, and the stress and so forth is pretty hard to take," he says.
And Rix, who grew up in a small town in Iowa, just loves the culture and vibrancy of city living.
That's what keeps Kathy LeVeque, 31, in Chicago, too. "I'm a city person," she says.
LeVeque is waiting at a commuter rail station to catch a train to her job in north suburban Deerfield.
As in other cities, Chicago's transit system was designed primarily to bring workers from outside the city downtown. But now, 70 percent of the region's jobs are outside that urban core. LeVeque herself used to drive nearly an hour or more each way every day.
"It's frustrating to sit in traffic. It's time that's not your own," she says. "But when you're on the train, you can just relax, you can close your eyes, you can read a book."
LeVeque is one of a growing number of Chicagoans making the reverse commute by train. In fact, train ridership on the reverse commute is up 64 percent over the past decade. To both ease her commute and still enjoy city life, LeVeque made a critical choice: "I actually decided to move to this neighborhood because I wanted to be off the Metra train to get to work, and then I wanted to be off the Blue Line so that I could get downtown easily."
By doing that, LeVeque is part of another trend.
Living Along The Lines
Census figures show surging population growth along rail lines in Chicago, especially those leading to the suburbs. Redden says the challenge is getting reverse commuters the last couple of miles from suburban stations to the sprawling fake alhambra earrings corporate campuses and office parks along the highways.
One solution: replica van cleef earrings alhambra the Shuttle Bug program. Big employers van cleef earring replica in one suburban corridor, including Walgreens and Allstate, help underwrite shuttle buses that take employees between their offices and the train stations. Redden is hoping to replicate the program in other areas.
Other ideas to improve "last mile" connections could include express bus routes, more van pools and even car and bike sharing in the suburbs.
"What we need to do is sort of piece those puzzle pieces together or provide those connections with flexible services," she says.
But Redden acknowledges public transit can't be the solution for everyone's trip to the suburbs, and driving will continue to be the only option for commuters such as Rix, who takes a Zen like approach.
This story is part of a series on commuting in America.
It is still as dark as night as Jim Rix steps out of his red brick Chicago bungalow and gets into his car, parked on the street.
Rix is one of many on the roads driving a reverse commute from the city to the suburbs. Over the past couple of decades, suburban job growth has exploded, but in recent years, there's also been a renaissance in urban living, especially among young professionals. The result: In some cities, traffic on the reverse commute is as congested as or worse than traffic going into the city.
As Rix accelerates onto the expressway, traffic is already heavy, though moving a good sign but it's only because he leaves home so early that he's able to beat the worst of morning traffic. "Yesterday, for instance, I didn't leave until 7 o'clock; it took over 90 minutes to get to work and there wasn't anything particular going on."
Crashes or bad weather can make the trip take much longer.
"It's just exhausting. There's nothing to be done with it, and the stress and so forth is pretty hard to take," he says.
And Rix, who grew up in a small town in Iowa, just loves the culture and vibrancy of city living.
That's what keeps Kathy LeVeque, 31, in Chicago, too. "I'm a city person," she says.
LeVeque is waiting at a commuter rail station to catch a train to her job in north suburban Deerfield.
As in other cities, Chicago's transit system was designed primarily to bring workers from outside the city downtown. But now, 70 percent of the region's jobs are outside that urban core. LeVeque herself used to drive nearly an hour or more each way every day.
"It's frustrating to sit in traffic. It's time that's not your own," she says. "But when you're on the train, you can just relax, you can close your eyes, you can read a book."
LeVeque is one of a growing number of Chicagoans making the reverse commute by train. In fact, train ridership on the reverse commute is up 64 percent over the past decade. To both ease her commute and still enjoy city life, LeVeque made a critical choice: "I actually decided to move to this neighborhood because I wanted to be off the Metra train to get to work, and then I wanted to be off the Blue Line so that I could get downtown easily."
By doing that, LeVeque is part of another trend.
Living Along The Lines
Census figures show surging population growth along rail lines in Chicago, especially those leading to the suburbs. Redden says the challenge is getting reverse commuters the last couple of miles from suburban stations to the sprawling fake alhambra earrings corporate campuses and office parks along the highways.
One solution: replica van cleef earrings alhambra the Shuttle Bug program. Big employers van cleef earring replica in one suburban corridor, including Walgreens and Allstate, help underwrite shuttle buses that take employees between their offices and the train stations. Redden is hoping to replicate the program in other areas.
Other ideas to improve "last mile" connections could include express bus routes, more van pools and even car and bike sharing in the suburbs.
"What we need to do is sort of piece those puzzle pieces together or provide those connections with flexible services," she says.
But Redden acknowledges public transit can't be the solution for everyone's trip to the suburbs, and driving will continue to be the only option for commuters such as Rix, who takes a Zen like approach.
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