Okay I can Drink a beer on a MARC train but not on a MBTA Commuter Train?

[cnw1995]

You can still drink on Metra - but not on the CTA. Not too long ago, well...maybe back as far as ten years ago, Metra at least on the former C&NW's northwest lines still had a few 'bar cars' complete with bartender. Metra doesn't allow any beer or open alcohol or even bottles in coolers on certain holidays - when there is a big extravaganza in downtown Chicago - sometimes when I've been working late, the Metra police are at the base of the platform confiscating or inspecting everything (of course, at the former Northwestern station, all one had to do was walk downstairs and come upstairs again further down the platform. While you can drink, they don't tolerate public drunkeness - and more than once in my experience, inebriated people have been arrested by local police at the next station. This is making me thirsty...