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Construction work on the Blue Line tracks between the Rosemont station and O’Hare is wrapping up four days early, with CTA service expected to be restored tomorrow morning at 3 a.m. Repairs to deteriorating rails, tie plates and spikes will eliminate the 15 m.p.h. slow zones on that particular stretch of track, now giving trains the capacity to travel at speeds up to 55 m.p.h.
“With the completion of this work, we now have reduced the number of slow zones on the CTA system to just over 11 percent, down from a high of 22.5 percent last Fall,” said CTA President Ron Huberman.
Huberman also says he hopes to further reduce slow zone portions of CTA tracks to fewer than 7 percent by late August.
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I think i will take it for the sake of seeing how fast it is.
"Git 'er done" is the three word phrase I wish most to be banned from the English language. Actually, second to "I love you."
"Repairs...will eliminate the 15 m.p.h. slow zones on that particular stretch of track, now giving trains the capacity to travel at speeds up to 55 m.p.h."
You know, pretty much the last place I'd want to be is on an L train going 55 m.p.h...
Too bad he can't tell the guys busy not fixing the Edens the same thing.
And all that 7% left will be on the North Side Red Line.
Huberman. The only person in city government who knows how to do his job.
Ron Huberman for...May...no. I won't say it. If Daley were to get word, Huberman would be sacked in an instant.
Every day I drive past the brown line "work" going on at the Damen stop at just about 9am
Every day, without fail, there is a line of CTA "workers" hitting the coolers, copping a squat and basically on "break".
Coming home early one day, I saw them all on break again, sitting on their coolers, eating and smoking and drinking just before 5.
Take a nice 90 minutes lunch and they can get a whole day in without breaking a sweat.
I've never actually seen them working. The workmen who don't. The City that loafs.
Oh and one of the major reasons I'm driving is because that el stop has been closed. Salt, meet wound.
I find it funny when people complain about the CTA workers not working. I mean, yeah they're government employees, so they probably aren't working too hard to git 'er done, but I've seen plenty of private-sector office and service employees checking their e-mail and shopping online at work, chatting about nothing and, basically, doing anything they can to not work -- kind of like posting on a blog at work (oops!).
Anyway, sure my station is also closed down, but I think those of us who work in glass office buildings shouldn't cast stones.
Albany: I see far too many CTA workers not working, but yet, despite your story, the Brown Line stations are getting finished somehow. Some work must be getting done at some time when you are not making these observations.
Now I must shower, as I always feel dirty when defending the CTA.
CTA workers are not government employees. CTA is a publicly funded private entity.
As for breaks, AlbanyPark, 9am is a standard coffee break time, they start working at 7am or earlier. So this is no different than any construction site in the country. Lunch is 30 minutes, not 90.