Commuters are the heart of its business, but the South Shore Line also likes to remind people that it offers more than rides to and from jobs in Chicago. "We're starting to increase our outreach to folks in South Bend and Chicago who want to spend some time in Northwest Indiana," said John Parsons, the railroad's vice president of planning and marketing. A free shuttle bus service between the South Shore's Miller station and the beaches in Gary's Miller section will begin on Saturday and continue on weekends through the summer. Also this summer, the railroad will promote Northwest Indiana as a camping destination for people from Chicago, and baseball fans can get half-price tickets to Gary South Shore RailCats home games.
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Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb traveled to Michigan City, Indiana to sign House Bill 1144, which establishes and permits the South Shore Line's main line double tracking and the West Lake Corridor improvement rail projects.
NOTICE OF ONGOING MAINTENANCE RELATED TRAIN DELAYS & TEMPORARY SERVICE IMPACTS - THAT WAS ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED TO CONCLUDE ON MAY 29 IS BEING EXTENDED THRU JUNE 2, 2017
Effective Monday, May 15 and continuing thru June 2 NICTD plans to perform scheduled track maintenance between Gary Metro Center and East Chicago. This work will require that we operate trains on a single track for the duration of the project.
The South Shore Line weekday train schedule will change on July 1, 2017. The new schedule affects the following trains: