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CTA President Ron Huberman, quickly becoming our favorite public official, unveiled an epic improvement plan for the CTA yesterday. Whew! The 75-page .pdf outlines his plan, though questions like "where will this money come from" remain.
Huberman says the slow zones are on their way to being eliminated, that he's increasing the efficiency of bus repairs, generating more non-ride money by wooing advertisers and vendors, and he promised that buses and trains will be way cleaner thanks to "gum busters," a high-tech cleaning device. As always, the CTA Tattler has the skinny, too.
More on-the-nose slides after ye olde jump....
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Wonder whose job it was to crunch the numbers of Time Spent Removing Gum.
Wha? Huh? Aren't the graphics supposed to make the reports easier to interpret?
This is good news, but much of what needs to be done depends on a new state capital program, and finding matching state dollars for federal capital funds. Anyone who cares should make a few calls and write a few letters to not only lawmakers, but also local media, so this vitally important task is not fucked up. Winning the operating funds a few weeks ago was only the first half of this battle. This part is just as important, as it relates to the long-term health of the RTA system.
With federal and state finances going the way they are, it is likely the availability of capital funds will be less in the near future, unless the next US Congress and next president do serious work on infrastructure funding, an uncertain proposition at this point, given the comments and lack of comments from all three main presidential candidates left.
Please don't count on the Olympics to solve these problems. Even if we get the Olympics, it is uncertain whether capital dollars will be made available for the entire RTA system, or just small parts that will play a direct role in the games.
No. They graphics are to wow you with bullsh*t.
I like the idea of the CTA being towed by Budweiser trucks. Could save untold millions in fuel costs.
This looks like the first PowerPoint I made, when I was so excited to use graphics, images, etc. it looked like my computer had thrown up.
The graphic in the "Bus Clean" slide looks like an iPhone.
what they ought to do is unload those crippling union pensions and retiree health care plans (from the first slide), and focus on actually running a transportation business. GM unloaded its health care obligations in favor of a lump payment to a trust fund as part of its last UAW negotiations. they risked bankruptcy if they hadn't. CTA should figure out a novel solution like that or it'll be removing all that gum with one hand tied behind its back.
what they ought to do is unload those crippling union pensions and retiree health care plans (from the first slide), and focus on actually running a transportation business. GM unloaded its health care obligations in favor of a lump payment to a trust fund as part of its last UAW negotiations. they risked bankruptcy if they hadn't. CTA should figure out a novel solution like that or it'll be removing all that gum with one hand tied behind its back.
what they ought to do is unload those crippling union pensions and retiree health care plans (from the first slide), and focus on actually running a transportation business. GM unloaded its health care obligations in favor of a lump payment to a trust fund as part of its last UAW negotiations. they risked bankruptcy if they hadn't. CTA should figure out a novel solution like that or it'll be removing all that gum with one hand tied behind its back.
what they ought to do is unload those crippling union pensions and retiree health care plans (from the first slide), and focus on actually running a transportation business. GM unloaded its health care obligations in favor of a lump payment to a trust fund as part of its last UAW negotiations. they risked bankruptcy if they hadn't. CTA should figure out a novel solution like that or it'll be removing all that gum with one hand tied behind its back.
what they ought to do is unload those crippling union pensions and retiree health care plans (from the first slide), and focus on actually running a transportation business. GM unloaded its health care obligations in favor of a lump payment to a trust fund as part of its last UAW negotiations. they risked bankruptcy if they hadn't. CTA should figure out a novel solution like that or it'll be removing all that gum with one hand tied behind its back.
i really like the idea of timed trains.
I like the idea of Chicagoist fixing its internal message system.
900hp: What did you think of the pension reforms under the recent RTA funding bill?
"Bus Clean Challenges"
Huh?
Maybe "Bus Cleaning Challenges" or "Clean Bus Challenges." They must have been to busy making sure the reflections and chart junk were just right to worry about the words.
Glad to see that CTA at least acknowledges bus bunching exists. I've long wondered why they don't coordinate to make one of the buses (or trains for that matter) go express when this happens.
Is it just me or does it sort of look like the little old black man's gettin' him a lil sum sum?
Where the hell is the online Bus Tracking?
They've said now that they are using it as a "Management tool" to help the bus bunching.
Well... let us use it as a "Not sitting in the freezing weather tool"
We already KNOW the buses are bunched!
In other news the CTA is bankrupt again and all projects are now put on hold.
matilda, the only details i have heard about the pension reform is that they want to bilk more money out of people selling their homes (through an increase in the chi real estate transfer tax) to pay for it, which i think is flat dead wrong. it's essentially robbing uninvolved people - most of whom don't have pensions of their own - to pay for the agency's own mistakes...