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RIDER SPOTLIGHT
Anne Kozek
How long have you been riding Metra? and 30 minutes at the end of the day to
We love to hear from our decompress and think to yourself.
passengers. Your stories and I just started again in January of this
experiences are what make year. I had ridden back in the day, but How has your experience been?
I just got a new job and moved back to
Metra what it is. In each I think it’s great. I have no concerns.
Chicago and now I’m back to riding.
issue, we’ll highlight one I think it’s been clean; you can safely
What do you do for a living? social distance. The conductors are
of you. This quarter, we wonderful, and I haven’t had any issue
spoke to Anne Kozek, a Rock I’m a dietician in genetics at Lurie Chil- with any of them. They’re always polite
Island Line rider who boards dren’s Hospital. We work with those and helpful.
kids who need us to take specific parts
at 99th Street/Beverly Hills, of their diet and modify it—otherwise What’s been the best part of your
who wrote Metra to thank us it would be toxic to the body. We treat train trip?
for the free rides we provided from infancy to adulthood. Just the fact that I don’t have to think
for healthcare workers from Have you been taking Metra during about traffic. I don’t have to worry that
March to August. the entire pandemic? someone is going to hit me because
I’m going too slow, according to their
For the most part, in the beginning we
could work at home. But even when we opinion. I don’t have to worry about
worked at home, we still went in one parking. I can relax.
day a week. I would drive, but then I What would you tell others who are
went back to the train. considering riding the train?
When I didn’t have to deal with down- If they’re worried, I would say don’t
town traffic, driving was fine. But when worry about it. It’s fine. It’s clean. Every-
it started to pick up again, I said “forget body has their mask on, and you can
it.” I like to sit on the train and have my socially distance.
30 minutes in the beginning of the day
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