While working on this petition, something has been nagging me, a feeling of "pre Deja Vu" at the idea of taking Rula on the train. Today it hit me. Many of us who grew up in the '50s and '60s remember reading, and loving, the Henry Huggins books by Beverly Cleary. In the first book, "Henry Huggins", eight year old Henry, who lives in Portland, Oregon, regularly does what today would be unthinkable. He rides the bus downtown. By himself. And goes swimming at the YWCA. Then he rides home. To us kids in the '60s this didn't seem all that remarkable. (!) So in chapter one, Henry is at the bus stop, on his way home, and he meets a skinny, stray dog, who he calls Ribsey. After calling his mom Henry decides to take Ribsey home--on the bus. And here is what the bus driver tells him: "Sorry, Sonny, I didn't make the rule. No animal can ride on a bus unless it's inside a box." Henry Huggins was written in 1950. Please, Metra, can we get up to 1950 speed here?