With a years-long construction project on the Kennedy Expressway slated to begin Monday, likely causing major delays and increased travel times, transit agencies are offering their services to help commuters find alternatives to the traffic headaches.
“Metra has been monitoring ridership as well as customer feedback, and these schedule changes respond to ridership trends and increase capacity and convenience by expanding peak period as well as off-peak service,” Metra CEO and Executive Director Jim Derwinski said in a news release. “And with a major multiyear rehab project scheduled to start on the Kennedy Expressway, this new schedule allows Metra to provide more commuters with a viable and much less stressful alternative to driving.
A years-long construction project on the Kennedy Expressway is slated to begin next week, NBC 5's Kye Martin reports.
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