Beat Traffic to O’Hare Airport on the CTA Blue Line
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- Опубликовано: 19 июл 2023
- When bad weather and highway construction snarl traffic, Rapid Transit is a traveler's best friend. Chicago's CTA Blue Line is a perfect example, providing quick, reliable, and stress-free service to O'Hare Airport 24 hours a day. In this video, I explain why the Blue Line is the ideal option for traveling between the Loop and the airport, and anywhere in between.
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about to move to Chicago as a pilot and was curious about this. have been in a city that has great transit to the airport and was hoping this would be the same here
You're in luck! I often see pilots and members of the flight crew taking the train to or from O'Hare.
I am from New York, and I know that there are lots of advantages than disadvantages to riding the Chicago Transit Authority trains to places with less time and more safety with convenience. This is the best way to beat the traffic all the way.
I couldn't agree more! There are always tradeoffs, but the Blue Line to O'Hare definitely has more benefits than drawbacks.
@@pointtopoint-cp6hr Thank you for tapping or typing to me.🙂
Unlike NYC it's a "single seat ride" - no shade on LIRR and Airtrain, though...
@@finalascent Thank you for typing to me.
There’s pretty much nothing I hate more in the world than driving to the airport. In fact, I absolutely refuse to pick up any family members from LAX cause of this.
So you know I’m super excited for LA to finish the LAX extension on the K line! Hopefully our situation ends up working as well as the O’hare one.
The biggest mistake in planning for any city is lack of transit connections from population centers to the airport.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the comment! When a city has quality rapid transit from the airport, it's amazing how much that simplifies travel.
@@GaigeGrosskreutzGunClubtake Ninoy Aquino International Airport; it is a freaking nightmare to see that highways are everywhere near it, yet not a single dedicated transit connection within a 30 minute radius of this Philippine city (buses do not count; there are also no BRT near that airport; there are trains… but they do not connect to the airport)
@@micosstar That seems to be in line with the current political trend in the PI, sorry to hear that.
Thank you so much for the information.
I have a question, what terminal is the blue line train to downtown Chicago from the O'hare international airport ?
It's closest to Terminal 2, but there are walkways that easily lead to Terminal 1 and Terminal 3. You should find signage directing you to the Blue Line trains to the city from any other those terminals. Terminal 5 is the only one where you need to take a separate tram back to the main terminal.
Thank you so much for more information.
Do you know where exactly is the shuttle to Terminal 5, inside of the other terminals, when you take the blue line to such terminals? Basically the route im expressing is downtown Chicago on the blue line, all the way to the airport, but how do you get to terminal 5 from there? I know its a shuttle but where are they exactly?
Thanks for watching! From the Blue Line station, follow the signs toward Terminal 2, take the escalators up to the ticketing level, then look for signs to Terminal 5. You'll take one more escalator up to cross a bridge over the road and Airport Transit System (ATS) tracks, then an escalator down to the ATS platform. Ride two stops and you'll be in Terminal 5! I've also added a link to the ATS page in the description.
Do you know one could take the Metra Rock Island District line from Tinley Park to LaSalle street then walk to the CTA blue line(I think it's Clinton Station?) and take that all the way to O'Hare? Is this feasible?
You sure can! If time isn't an issue, just about anyone in the suburbs could get to their nearest Metra station, ride all the way to the Loop, and then transfer to an outbound Blue Line. For the Rock Island line, it looks like the nearest transfer would be walking a block east to the LaSalle station. The challenge is that if you're flying in or out on a weekend, trains on that line only run every two hours, making that connection potentially a pretty slow one
There should be an express line as well. Or rather run the same train more frequently than every 20 mins lol.
Absolutely. An express line would be fantastic!
If you lived in the Chicago land area (Naperville for example) - is it cheaper to jump on the train and get an Uber outside of the airport area? Or would you just get an Uber at the airport?
It might be marginally cheaper, but probably not worth the extra time and effort.