"The nice thing about Chicago is that the commuting is easier," said Linda Puccio, a former New Jersey resident. "The trains are on time and they have a lot of expresses." The express trains that leave the Route 59 station stop only once in Naperville before getting to downtown Chicago in an hour's time.
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Seconds can make the difference between making it to work on time or not. Once the doors begin to close on the trains there's no giving anyone a break for fear of someone getting hurt in attempting to get onto the train as it begins to pull away from the station.
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"She double commutes," Jamie White says of his friend, neighbor and fellow commuter, Kathy Delehanty. "She telecommutes while commuting." Delehanty works for a management consulting firm in Chicago and talks to business associates as close as Chicago and as far away as London in her commute. "Look at how productive I can be. With all this fellowship and productivity, why would I drive?"
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Arriving at Union Station, commuters from the Aurora/Chicago Metra route shuffle through the tunnel and begin their metropolitan workday.
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