Given that mayor emmanuel launched the museum campus transportation study, as an employee of a museum on the campus, i would ask that traffic control and standard parking give consideration to employees of museums on the campus consideration during bears home games and special events at soldier field. i understand that you want to give bears fans and concert goers the best possible time they can have, but remember that some of us have to work during said events and it is a hassle to have to park in the north lot, walk down to the museum and then after a long day at work, to have to walk back and find your car in that underground mega-plex. we museum campus employees should have a special section for parking during such events. we pay standard parking our fees; they should honor where we park normally and give us a respective section in our lot.

I went to the MPC open house last week and it was good to talk with people, including Yonah Freemark. My hope (and goal) is to institute immediate (and relatively inexpensive) improvements to the current DISMAL public transportation situation to the museum campus. In order to counteract the CTA's foolish and disastrous decision to cut 146 bus service to the museum campus (by truncating the southbound 146 bus route, most of which now stop at Harrison St.), other options are desperately needed. I write this to not only facilitate TOURISTS getting to the museum campus, but also thousands of EMPLOYEES who find it harder and harder to get to (and leave) work! (The CTA may deny that they have cut service to the museum campus, but this is absolutely untrue and I have old printed 146 schedules to prove it.) In light of this, I enthusiastically endorse the open house idea of Trolley Circulators! Bringing these back (they used to exist) could help greatly-- as long as they run during early and late rush hours (for museum campus staff), as well as for late-arising tourists. And as long as they are free or accepting of Ventra cards. Also the open house ideas of having color coded or thematic trails (from Roosevelt train station), and a large unified sign program, for tourists, could really help. Today, if a tourist is foolish enough to hope that they can make it to the museum campus on foot from Michigan Ave or the Redline station, a huge impediment is the draconian security fencing that often gets put up during the frequent (horrible) Columbus Drive street closures (most recently for the Chicago Marathon). These huge, intimidating fences effectively seal off the Museum Campus and prevent people from making it to the museums. I have worked at the Field Museum since 2002, and have seen the access to the museum campus get worse and worse. Also I cannot count the number of times I've assisted bewildered tourists, both on the 146 bus and on foot. Tourists-- AND employees-- have to be VERY determined and resourceful to actually make it to the Museum Campus. Something REALLY needs to be done, and thank you so much for taking this messy situation on!