The Metropolitan Rail Corporation or Metra in Chicago is a train system that connects the suburbs to the city of Chicago. It goes past about 241 train stations and is broken up into 11 different lines. One even crossed the border into Wisconsin. It's a relatively easy train system to use, once you know where [...]
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Thames River Cruise
One of the things we got on our Hop On Hop Off tour was a voucher for a Thames River Cruise, but it was also included on our The London Experience Tour. We boarded at the Tower Hill pier near the Tower of London. We sat inside since it was cold out and near a [...]
London Hop On Hop Off Bus Tour
Our first tour was the Hop On Hop Off bus tour. We decided to ride it all the way through from beginning to end to be acquainted with the city and to learn more about it. We took a seat on the roof, put on our blue head phones and when the bus moved we [...]
Public Transit: The London Tube
The first thing my cousin and I did when we got off our flight was purchase an Oyster card. I believe there are other kinds of cards, such as paper day passes, and I'm not one hundred percent sure how those work, since we only used the Oyster cards. We also only took the Tube as [...]
CTA holiday train
Every year the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) puts together a holiday train. These trains are elusive since they usually only run maybe once or twice between set times per line per day. The trains, depending on the time can get packed, especially if it's the time people are getting off work. This is usually between [...]
Trams, buses, and trains in Prague
We were right next to a ton of awesome public transportation, and if I could bring something back to Chicago with me from Prague it would have been their transportation system. I walked a lot, because sometimes especially late at night the trams would go by packed to the brim. I usually wasn't too far [...]