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On METRA and the CTA putting your feet up is verboten, too. Push it far enough and yes, you’ll be arrested.

4 posted on 09/12/2015 8:31:43 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)

On METRA and the CTA putting your feet up is verboten, too. Push it far enough and yes, you’ll be arrested.

Can't speak for the CTA, but I ride Metra every Monday - Friday. Have been since 1988. I routinely rest my feet using the empty seat in front of me. I hang my feet OVER the seat so that my shoes never touch the seat, my ankles and calves do. When I'm on a late train (anytime after 7pm) I've occasionally taken my shoes off and put my feet on the seat to rest & nap on the way home. I've never received so much as a comment from any Metra conductor about doing so.

What you WILL get thrown off the train for is being drunk & disorderly and being hostile/belligerent to other passengers or the conductor.

That's been my experience for the last 27 years on Metra. Note that I take the Metra Southwest Service train and it's seldom full. There are almost always plenty of empty seats on the train I ride in the morning and evening.

20 posted on 09/12/2015 8:58:18 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))

Nothing worse on a snowy day than some a$$hole punk on the second level putting their feet on the seat on on the rail and dripping everywhere.

41 posted on 09/12/2015 10:10:09 AM PDT by sharkhawk (Here come the Hawks, the mighty Black Hawks)

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