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Showing its complete faith in the accuracy of weather reports, the CTA postponed impending Brown Line closures
due to rain and a chance of rain.
Unless there's inclement weather every weekend from now on, Kimball and Francisco will still have to be closed for the extensive Brown Line renovation project. The closures have been giving businesses off the stops headaches because the closures have or will cut down drastically on foot traffic and business. Even though the CTA will give free advertising to them until the project is finished the owners of these shops have to be doing some serious rain dances now.
And just so you know, crazy Kruesi apparently knows how much the CTA is pissing people off because he basically warned the board not to screw the project up. Actually, he said, "If we have a hiccup, it's going to reverberate very quickly." We don't know if stopping the show on account of weather counts as a hiccup...or really what that even means.
Either way, fear of Mother Nature's wrath staved off the inevitable for one more week. Now if only Father Time could get the trains to run on schedule.
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Speaking of weather halting construction, does anyone know if Mills is waiting for warmer weather to continue work on Block 37?
There has been no activity in the last 3 or more weeks on the site. The only vehicles onsite are the ComEd trucks and they are just working in the substation.
Have the financial difficulties at Mills Corp caused a halt to construction? Is the fate of Block 37 still undecided? What will happen to the CBS 2 studios?
Actually, I think if you read the full story, "hiccup" referred to what would happen if there was a service disruption when the Belmont and Fullerton stations are running at 75% capacity -- that service disruption will be magnified because of less capacity to restore service. Translation: lotsa fun ahead.
It's already a mess trying to go from Addison to just south of Belmont.
I saw the ads for the stores on Kedzie, Francisco & Rockwell.
But what really caught my eye were the posters on the ad boards on the train for the current fares. They're in English, spanish, polis & chinese.
Because the dimbulbs at the CTA have printed them in 4, count em, 4 different languages, the print is so small, it can't be read unless you're 7 feet tall & can get right up in front of the poster!
Take a bow, politically correct bureaucrats, just brilliant!