The 9-to-5 commuter is going extinct. That spells change ahead for Metra.

With some lanes are closed for construction, a Metra train passes cars traveling inbound on the Kennedy Expressway near the Irving Park exit. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

During a summer jam-packed with delays on the Kennedy Expressway and the L, Gabriela Jirasek says something you don’t hear often these days in Chicago. 

Her commute from Morgan Park to downtown on Metra is “wonderfully consistent.”