I rode the CTA everyday from June 2006 when I moved here, to the first week of April 2007. I would take the Grand bus into town, and come home on the Chicago bus or the Green Line.

I bought a bike about 4 weeks ago, and I have taken the CTA only once since that day. I even rode my bike in a hails storm and I think I will take it all winter long at the end of the year.

I live at 2000W so its not even 3 miles for me to get to the Magnificent Mile where I work..

I don’t miss the bus. I am just as fast and I don’t have to wait around for it. Some days I am faster. Some days the wind makes me slower, but I don’t care. I move my body 6 miles a day on a bike and I love it.