Chicagoist: CTA Still Reviewing Blue Line Mess

Von Erich

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:49:12 -0600

"but from my experience the 'announcements' on buses are more numerous, and more useless." "Vandalism costs the CTA over $3 million a year". Hear that taggers? "please be considerate of other passengers when talking on your cell phone or using electrical devicees" chances are, they don't hear that message. "This is Blue Line run #642." who keeps track of this? "Doors open on the left at Logan Square." just in case you don't panic when the door won't open to a cement wall.

DNashty

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:02:30 -0600

Maybe I don't ride the trains enough to know, but from my experience the "announcements" on buses are more numerous, and more useless. I like to spend my mornings on the 148, stuck in Lake Shore Drive traffic, reading a nice book. It's hard to do that when every 3 minutes the stupid speakers erupt with an ad encouraging all us riders to get a CTA ChicagoCard - which most of us already have anyway. Either that, or they're "warning" us about the Brown Line construction project - which we also already know about as it's been going on for years, and which if we're on the 148 bus we probably don't care a lot about anyway. (Please, CTA, stop the "announcements" on the buses!)

bryanzera

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:00:01 -0600

The announcements on the red line have been nearly excessive.

Shannon

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:20:24 -0600

all they have to do - all they have to do - is say what's going on. i realize they don't want to start a panic, they don't want to say something that might not be thought out or ongoing, but just give us something. guaranteed if an operator had come over the PA, even with the delay, people would not be raising this huge stink.

Coollead

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:09:25 -0600

lol @ Blue Line story that doesn't use a picture of the Blue Line.

downtownjoel

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:55:53 -0600

CTA improving its customer communication; this explains why the speaker on my red line train this morning was deafeningly loud? I couldn't help but think it was related to the blue line events of the previous week while I sat and thought of my presently deteriorating hearing in the frequency of the hissing garbled overdriven CTA speaker. Or it was just a random weekly crappy CTA experience that I wouldn't have even thought of had this not been in the news.

matty

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:31:52 -0600

The president's office called me and apologized. I explained what happened and they told me that they were going to fix it.

xlprq

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:21:33 -0600

I've seen mug lady! Who even thinks of that?

Spav1

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:02:08 -0600

Um, what happened to Commentor of the Month. I realize I am never going to win, due to the Cabal of Writers that Hates Me on the Secret Message Board which WE can't see... but really, what happened to that feature?