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Bicycle commuters invade Chicagoland streets Sunday Parkways one step closer Chicago seniors' walking commutes get boost Walking commute unveils hidden treasures Store owner gets employees to bike Field Museum offers staff bike sharing Bicycle Commuter Stations around the region Top marks for new Chicagoland transit websites |
Walking commute unveils hidden treasures National Walk to Work Day (April 1) inspired a group of my co-workers to try walking to work on a weekly basis. The experiment has proven to be wholly worth the extra time the trip takes. My typical commute entails a walk from my apartment to the train and then a quick walk from the train station to my office. This all takes about 20 minutes. On the days that my co-workers and I walk together, the trip is almost exactly one hour and is somewhere between three to four miles. We meet up along Milwaukee Avenue with a slightly different group of people joining every week. For me, the trip is particularly interesting along the route where the train runs underground because I don’t routinely see that part of the city. For my co-workers, who usually bike, it’s an opportunity to see the city at a slower place and to notice more closely the changes that take place from week to week. For us all, it’s a chance to just take a walk and enjoy the city and the company. The sheer size of the city is amazing, which is something I didn’t
fully realize until I began commuting by foot. The process of commuting
by foot is truly unique because of the mellowness that the walk
brings to the beginning of my day.
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