I Traveled To Indiana Using The CTA
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- čas přidán 22. 06. 2024
- The CTA can take you many places in Chicago, including places that you may not even realize or think about. In this video, I take a very random adventure to see if the CTA will get me far enough that I can make it to the state of Indiana.
0:00 - Intro
1:36 - Getting to Indiana
4:10 - Visiting Indiana
6:34 - Outro
NOTE: I've seen several comments now, pointing out that I could have simply taken the South Shore Line for my trip. Yes, I was aware that this option was available to me, but that was not the purpose of this video! This video was much less about actually getting to Indiana than it was about noticing that I could use regular CTA trains and buses to get there! As I mention in the outro of the video, this was not the most practical trip for me to take, it was more for the adventure and seeing where the CTA could get me. At the end of the day, it's all about showcasing how far public transit can get you. If I had broadened my criteria out to include SSL, Metra, or even Amtrak (which can get you pretty far for about as much as some Metra tickets), the possibilities would have been enormous!
The pavement change is hilarious
It speaks volumes.
Really fun view of an obscure, cool trip! Concise narration and great camerawork. I hope to see a Wolf Lake adventure soon!
There is so many ways to travel to Indiana using CTA and Pace. I took route 350 to Morton/Willow and walk to Downtown Hammond. Great video of showing us how to do it.
I love Pace I like the one that goes to Hedgewisch
cool video, i didnt know chicago went that far out from the loop! Pretty crazy stuff, looking forward to new vidoes!
There are certain Pace Buses that actually enter into Indiana.
I remember doing this once from the Hammond SSL to 95th/Dan Ryan, walking all the way. It was okay
Transit systems like the CTA, having enough decent coverage and reliability throughout the entire city, inside a navigable city grid that has many redundancies and with the city itself being such a diverse region, will inevitably make you feel adventurous and make you tempted to go as far as you want to go. It's just a matter of willpower and time ultimately, and of course feeling insecure about making "meaningless" or "potentially dangerous" trips like these plays a factor too.
Walking in Hammond is an interesting choice.
I frequently visit that park. Goes into wolf lake and into Indiana and back into IL. Nice for Bikes and gets busy on the weekends. There is some sort of factory on the indiana side that makes soap. You can kind of smell it when you ride past. Go to steelworkers park in IL next.
100 Jeffrey Manor Exp ONLY runs in the rush hours. The old route 106 from 95th to 112th/Av B used to run daily
Instead of doing CTA to Indiana, why not take that South Shore Line Commuter Rail? You could take it to South Bend and then take local buses into Niles, Michigan for an all day affair.
I think the point was to take only CTA, which the South Shore Line is not.
@@FeltNokia Exactly! The purpose of this video was really less about actually getting to Indiana, and more about the unique CTA trip I could take!
You could take cta to a national park the pulman national park and maybe ssl to a national park the Indiana dunes
Next time you are down that way, you should check out downtown Whiting, Indiana. Which does have a pretty decent downtown, on 119th Street.
You also aren't too far, from a bike path that you take you towards Wolf Lake. Also for the southeast side of Chicago, its interesting to walk around the area of Commercial Ave north of 91st. While that area is past its peak, there are so many interesting historic buildings around there. And at some point soon, I imagine Calumet Fisheries(on 95th, it is right by the drawbridge) will reopen.
Pretty impressive considering the CTA can barely get me to the neighborhood next door 🙃🙃
I hate that I just learned that the city of Chicago itself borders Indiana.. I always thought there were some smaller towns in between. What a fun outing!
Very interesting!
Very cool
70s-2000s era trains kick ass
the 4 Cottage Grove bus is the same line Wesley Willis took when he was attacked and stabbed in the face in 1991
Great video
Moody people don't think Chicago has an East side, but when he got on the 100 Jeffery manor bus, he was DEFINITELY on the little known Chicago east side.
Very true! I have always said things like "Chicago doesn't have an East Side", which I would still say is somewhat true as Chicago on a macroscopic scale is still very much set up in a semi-circle with north, south, and west, as opposed to most cities (at least in the U.S.) which tend to be more circular in shape. Although, as the name of the neighborhood suggests, there is in fact some sort of east side, it is just a relatively small corner of the city.
Thank god you survived your trip to Indiana. Very dangrous over there. Man eating grass
It is not dangerous over there anymore (back in the day it was dangerous). I grew up in Jeffery Manor.
I live on the Pace 423 and I would like to do an adventure like this. What do you recomend?
5:34 Action shot!
I was holding my breath
Kudos for being brave enough to get off at 95th street👏
smh. *roll eyes*
Couldn’t you just go downtown then hop directly on the south shore line that goes all the way to Portage and Michigan City? That’s what I used to do
Yes, would have been LOT faster and more direct to take the South Shore train. Most of people at Walmart are Illinois residents avoiding higher grocery taxes on IL side or buying cheap cigarettes in IN.
Same thing here in Oregon. People from Washington come here because we have no sales tax.
You realize you could have taken the South Shore Line trains (NICTD) from Chicago's Loop through Hammond, the Dunes and all to South Bend. Walking is fine, but not needed for this trip.
I grew up in Jeffery Manor.
Hoosiers
Indiana is good (Indianapolis)
Indiana is right on the suburbs of Chicago though. More interesting transport journeys are places like Lille 🇨🇵 with transport operated by SNCF (rail) and Transpole (bus, metro, trams) from Hauts Du France and local and regional trains to Belgian 🇧🇪 suburbs along with Dutch speaking De Lijn buses and Belgian French TEC buses. All the same currency and no border checks since the 1960's
I will admit you're more adventurous than I. I could not have risked being stranded in Indiana for any length of time. I once stepped off my porch to chase a squirrel away and found myself alone and afraid. It was a exhilarating and frightening at the same time.