To get to her summer job at an academic testing center in Naperville last year, teacher Antonia Flynn left her house in the Washington Heights neighborhood at 5 a.m., then took two buses and two Metra trains — a 2 1/2- hour commute that wore her down: “I’d get home at 8 p.m. All I did was travel. The pressure on my body was … I can’t explain it.” This year, she decided to not take the Naperville summer job — it wasn’t worth the physical and psychological wear and tear.
There’s a name for the geographic affliction sapping the energy of Far South Siders. They’re stuck in transit deserts — city neighborhoods and suburbs poorly served by mass transit…Please click here to read the Tribune editorial piece.
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