Reminder: Let's Bus to the Farmer's Market Tomorrow!

Let's Bus to the Farmer's Market Tomorrow!

Eastside Alders' bus ride event is tomorrow morning! The meet-up point is at the corner of MLK Jr Blvd and West Main, 10:00am. I will board the D1 bus inbound at Milwaukee Street and Kurt Drive at 8:58am. Apples, squash, and pastry are on my shopping list. 

Below you'll find more information that will help District 3 neighborhood residents figure out how to bus to the Farmer's Market on the square that morning - but I would still love to see you at the meet-up point at 10am regardless of how you get downtown. Hope to see you there!

Directions from District 3 Neighborhoods

From the Hiestand neighborhood or the northern half of the Rolling Meadows, Heritage Heights, or Grandview Commons neighborhoods, you can catch the D1 bus inbound along Milwaukee Street. To give yourself time at the market before the 10am meet-up, for example, you can catch the D1 bus at Milwaukee Street and North Star Drive at 8:57am  or Milwaukee Street and Swanton Road at 9am . 

From the southern half of the Rolling Meadows, Heritage Heights, or Grandview Commons neighborhoods, you can catch the C1 bus inbound along Cottage Grove Road. To give yourself time at the market before the 10am meet-up, for example, you can catch the C1 bus at Cottage Grove Road and North Star Drive at 9:23am  or Cottage Grove Road and Acewood Blvd at 9:25am .

From the Burke Heights neighborhood you have two options: you can take the G at Pulley Dr and Commercial Ave at 9:18am  north to the A along East Wash, and then you can take the A inbound toward downtown; you could also take the G at Pulley Dr and Commercial Ave at 9:23am  south to the C1 and then take the C1 inbound toward downtown.

From the Mayfair Park neighborhood you can catch the A line along East Washington Avenue. You can board the A bus at the stop at the northwest corner of the intersection of East Wash and Mendota Street at 9:38am  inbound toward downtown.

I used Google Maps to check out each of the routes linked above. Metro recommends arriving at your stop five minutes before the scheduled departure time in case your bus arrives early. For your return trip you can take each of these lines in reverse. You can pay the $2 bus fare with cash (exact change) upon boarding the bus, OR you can purchase a pass at an area retailer and swipe the pass to board.