On Chicago's Metropolitan Rail system (Metra), the conventional commuter rail station remains configured much as it did when it served commuter suburbs of the late 19th century. The contemporary commuter station, however, now operates within a diffused suburban landscape. As the suburban fabric has loosened itself from the rail corridor, so have the workplace and workday crept beyond the nine-to-five office routine of the industrial era. This commuter station is therefore reconsidered not only for a loosened suburban landscape, but also for a commuting culture which seeks to optimize time. By means of strategic siting and consideration of the suburban landscape, this station renegotiates the automobile and train and the gap between them. This physical and emporal gap becomes a site for the amenities of work and home. Configuration of the whole captures a density of activity which which expands and contracts in response to the cycles of commuter traffic.