Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District

"We're having days when we're 60-percent on-time, and early in the summer, we were reporting 25-percent OTP, which is not good," Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District President Mike Noland told the NICTD board last month. "And we're not satisfied at 60 percent."

The South Shore Line will provide service to the Indiana University-Notre Dame College Football Playoff game December 20. Shuttle buses will take passengers from the South Bend Airport station to the IU School of Medicine building on the Notre Dame campus.

Last December, the city paused the bus route that connected Valparaiso with the Dune Park South Shore station. Last week, the board of works voted to cut the route permanently.

The South Shore Line is warning passengers to expect delays and changes at Van Buren Street. The Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District is currently working with Metra to add a fourth track between 11th Street and Millennium Station, where the line currently narrows to three tracks.

Train service is scheduled to shift to the new Gateway Station at Sheffield Avenue on Friday, October 18.

The South Shore Line is running extra service for Sunday's Chicago Marathon.

Hammond's South Shore Line station will be down to one platform, starting Saturday. Trains in both directions will board on Track 2, while Track 1 will close.

Some South Shore trains will make an extra stop next week for the International Manufacturing Technology Show.

South Shore Line trains will make an extra stop for Chicago Bears games at Soldier Field this football season.

The South Shore Line is looking at the safety of its pedestrian crossings, after the death of a woman at the Hegewisch Station in July. The railroad says it's hired "a nationally recognized engineering firm specializing in grade-crossing diagnostics."