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Post by thebosma on Jun 14, 2018 7:38:10 GMT -6
Imagine being so scared of poor people you ask for your labor rights violation daddy to come in and build transit for you. Won’t somebody think of the rich people?? you should see the suburbs sometime (dont actually) Oh I’ve spent a decent amount of time there. I also went to a college that was primarily students from the suburbs. I am not shocked that they have this attitude based on what I know about them, but at the same time Jesus Christ let’s pretend poor people have souls
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Post by thebosma on Jun 14, 2018 7:39:18 GMT -6
Also privatization of public transit is literally the worst idea and will only be used for future endeavors of excluding and/or exploiting poor people.
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Post by claypoolfan on Jun 14, 2018 7:41:14 GMT -6
Yeah, have we learned nothing from the parking meter debacle?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2018 7:47:39 GMT -6
Also privatization of public transit is literally the worst idea and will only be used for future endeavors of excluding and/or exploiting poor people. im mostly kidding but at the same time i really do think cta is probably the most poorly handled city entity ive had to deal with since working in the utility industry in chicago and dont really know what will fix it unless they actually start dedicating funds to proper maintenance and staff training and such but they clearly dont want to so rabblerabblerabble
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Post by thebosma on Jun 14, 2018 7:49:11 GMT -6
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Post by thebosma on Jun 14, 2018 7:51:50 GMT -6
Also privatization of public transit is literally the worst idea and will only be used for future endeavors of excluding and/or exploiting poor people. im mostly kidding but at the same time i really do think cta is probably the most poorly handled city entity ive had to deal with since working in the utility industry in chicago and dont really know what will fix it unless they actually start dedicating funds to proper maintenance and staff training and such but they clearly dont want to so rabblerabblerabble I definitely don’t have as much as an inside view at this as anyone else here so I won’t claim to know how well the CTA is run as a whole. Mostly I’m suggesting the idea that privatized transit will be more expensive and still spend just as little on maintenance and staff because now they’re focused on a significant profit.
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Post by Tweet on Jun 14, 2018 8:03:44 GMT -6
This could be a cool idea in a city that doesn't have public transit already built. Or hell, use the money to improve Chicago's existing rail lines. The Blue Line could sure as hell use it. Yeah I mean Los Angeles seems like a better fit for this project than Chicago. Iasm's tweet post is staggering
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Post by rango420 on Jun 14, 2018 8:06:30 GMT -6
This could be a cool idea in a city that doesn't have public transit already built. Or hell, use the money to improve Chicago's existing rail lines. The Blue Line could sure as hell use it. as someone who's lived next to the blue line 4 years -- sweet fucking jesus thank you yes. This project is all privately funded so that would mean privatizing the CTA at this point im completely fine with CTA being privatized and immediately being bought out by Musk or whoever for a massive overhaul because the city has 0 interest in finding the finances to help maintain or improve it. Thats the worst opinion ever on the board
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Post by teekoh on Jun 14, 2018 8:08:38 GMT -6
I’m related news, my blue line ride has been completely fucked this morning.
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Post by Tweet on Jun 14, 2018 8:25:31 GMT -6
I’m related news, my blue line ride has been completely fucked this morning. Someday you'll be able to pay $25 to unfuck it
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2018 8:57:51 GMT -6
im mostly kidding but at the same time i really do think cta is probably the most poorly handled city entity ive had to deal with since working in the utility industry in chicago and dont really know what will fix it unless they actually start dedicating funds to proper maintenance and staff training and such but they clearly dont want to so rabblerabblerabble I definitely don’t have as much as an inside view at this as anyone else here so I won’t claim to know how well the CTA is run as a whole. Mostly I’m suggesting the idea that privatized transit will be more expensive and still spend just as little on maintenance and staff because now they’re focused on a significant profit. yeah hence i dont think i actually want that -- but i just have 0 faith in the city to ever front the bill for fixing/replacing anything anymore. they way they're screwing over utility providers to force them to pay for all the city's costs on the construction front is already disgusting enough. so it's hitting a rough point in the city where they cant afford to improve public transit (and they wont be getting anything from the state or fed to help anytime soon) but we dont want them to corporatize it either. back on point though, the chaos that the 10 years of construction for a dumb underground hypertrain to ohare would cost the city and its people is unimaginable and ultimately isnt gonna happen.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2018 9:13:18 GMT -6
The country has crumbling, failing infrastructure and the federal government is never going to adequately upgrade it. The state will never upgrade their rail lines. The city will never overhaul the CTA and fully modernize it. We will never have bullet trains or clean, efficient subways like nearly all of Eastern Asia has. Even when things do get funded like I-90 getting redone it never ends. It’s been like 6 years and they’re still doing work on it. That whole high speed rail thing the fed gov tried to get going completely failed and those weren’t even “high speed” by comparison to most Asian or European rail lines.
The CTA is slow and inefficient. A lot of the cars are old and need to be refurbished (they redid a few green line cars and now the homeless get on them and never leave). Nearly every time I take the brown, purple, or red liens I’m stopped and stuck sitting on the tracks for upwards of 20 minutes.
If the city/state/federal government aren’t going to make the necessary upgrades and modernize transportation idk why people are so upset over a private industry doing it and paying for it. Musk isn’t going to give charity money in millions/billions to refurbish Chicago’s existing public transport. Why would he do that?
This isn’t being built as a replacement for the blue line, it’s an alternate option. Nobody is making you pay to ride it. You’re still free to pay $2.50 to ride the hot sweaty blue line for 45 minutes smelling pee.
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Post by concertgoer on Jun 14, 2018 9:29:58 GMT -6
Such an overally dramatic post that’s full of privilege . I take the red, brown and purple lines all the time and rarely have been stuck for 20 minutes.
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Post by Tweet on Jun 14, 2018 9:31:10 GMT -6
Can we all agree that the overpass the CTA is building after Belmont for the brown line is dumb though? It's pretty dumb sounding
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Post by teekoh on Jun 14, 2018 9:31:48 GMT -6
I still have them blocked, so I'll continue to not read their posts.
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Post by thebosma on Jun 14, 2018 9:31:57 GMT -6
Such an overally dramatic post that’s full of privilege . I take the red, brown and purple lines all the time and rarely have been stuck for 20 minutes. No cg you don’t understand. If you support public transit you LITERALLY are in love with piss. I don’t make the rules
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Post by concertgoer on Jun 14, 2018 9:34:43 GMT -6
I still have them blocked, so I'll continue to not read their posts. I do as well. Not sure what possessed me to read that post lol.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2018 9:35:48 GMT -6
Such an overally dramatic post that’s full of privilege . I take the red, brown and purple lines all the time and rarely have been stuck for 20 minutes. Why does being privaledged here matter? Nobody is making you take this transit. Nobody is making you pay to have it built. Nobody is taking away all of your existing options. This will have no effect on your life if you chose not to take it.
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Post by thebosma on Jun 14, 2018 9:36:18 GMT -6
Sometimes you just have to bask in shitty takes. I absentmindedly put conditioner in my hair before shampoo today, and I wanted someone to direct my anger at. It’s therapeutic
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Post by concertgoer on Jun 14, 2018 9:36:51 GMT -6
Also while the cta has some issues as does any major public transit system it sure as hell beats the alternative which is having to drive and park in the city.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2018 9:37:59 GMT -6
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Post by concertgoer on Jun 14, 2018 9:38:22 GMT -6
Such an overally dramatic post that’s full of privilege . I take the red, brown and purple lines all the time and rarely have been stuck for 20 minutes. Why does being privaledged here matter? Nobody is making you take this transit. Nobody is making you pay to have it built. Nobody is taking away all of your existing options. This will have no effect on your life if you chose not to take it. Because you made a point of complaining about homeless people being on trains.
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Post by dij22 on Jun 14, 2018 9:45:52 GMT -6
Is this including all rides on the blue line per hour regardless of destination? If so it's not a meaningful comparison. I wonder how many Loop-to-O'Hare/O'Hare-to-Loop trips there actually are on the blue line though.
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Post by dij22 on Jun 14, 2018 9:50:12 GMT -6
Can we all agree that the overpass the CTA is building after Belmont for the brown line is dumb though? It's pretty dumb sounding What is dumb about it? A huge federal grant that takes away a huge bottleneck in order to increase ridership/decrease travel times for the city's busiest line.
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Post by Tweet on Jun 14, 2018 9:53:57 GMT -6
Can we all agree that the overpass the CTA is building after Belmont for the brown line is dumb though? It's pretty dumb sounding What is dumb about it? A huge federal grant that takes away a huge bottleneck in order to increase ridership/decrease travel times for the city's busiest line. I read that it's only allowing for an additional two or three trains during rush hour times and only shaving 45 seconds off the commute. Which means Bitte Orca would only be stuck for 19:15, but still
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Post by goodson on Jun 14, 2018 9:57:47 GMT -6
20 min is fucking nothing go ride the mta lol
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Post by dij22 on Jun 14, 2018 9:59:34 GMT -6
What is dumb about it? A huge federal grant that takes away a huge bottleneck in order to increase ridership/decrease travel times for the city's busiest line. I read that it's only allowing for an additional two or three trains during rush hour times and only shaving 45 seconds off the commute. Which means Bitte Orca would only be stuck for 19:15, but still This is the most recent thing I can find: The CTA said the flyover will allow it to run up to 15 more trains per hour in one direction on the three lines after the afternoon rush and up to 12 more morning trains.
The CTA has said delays at Clark Junction range from 30 seconds to four minutes — critics of the plan have charged that a 30-second delay is not reason enough for the project. But the CTA argues that the project will cut crowding and delays up and down the north branch of the Red Line, the busiest line in the system, with about 150,000 riders going through the Belmont station every weekday.
Currently, the most the agency can do is 40-44 trains per hour in one direction on the three lines. The CTA said building the bypass will allow it to serve 7,200 more riders per hour. It is part of the $2.1 billion Red-Purple Line modernization project, which also will rehabilitate stations, bridges and track along a century-old corridor between Lawrence and Bryn Mawr stations on the Red Line, which saw a crushing 40 percent growth in rush-hour traffic in recent years.
The flyover itself will cost about $570 million and includes modernizing both the Brown Line track structure west of the junction and the signal system on the Red and Brown Lines near the junction, said CTA spokeswoman Tammy Chase.
“It makes sense to do it all at once,” Chase said.
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Post by Tweet on Jun 14, 2018 10:02:50 GMT -6
Ah that's definitely different. Last piece I read was like a month ago
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Post by alady on Jun 14, 2018 11:29:57 GMT -6
CTA is honestly not all that bad (unless you live on the south side). It's nowhere near as bad as the MTA.
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Post by jimmyrecard on Jun 14, 2018 12:13:55 GMT -6
...and you know what the MTA should stand for...Motherf*****s touchin' my ass.
Edit: I am absolutely thrilled this is top of the page.
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