Chicagoist: Huberman To CTA Construction Crews: Git 'Er Done

Thunderbelly

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:22:50 -0600

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.

matilda

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:20:35 -0600

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.

tecki

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:03:41 -0600

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.

Albanyparkour

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:22:23 -0600

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_h8_toyota_and_BT

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:21:24 -0600

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.

Scooter Libbby

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:22:48 -0600

And all that 7% left will be on the North Side Red Line.

Slaphappy

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:10:23 -0600

Too bad he can't tell the guys busy not fixing the Edens the same thing.

ophmarketing

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:19:38 -0600

"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...

Retardo Montalban

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:11:59 -0600

"Git 'er done" is the three word phrase I wish most to be banned from the English language. Actually, second to "I love you."

matty

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:44:32 -0600

I think i will take it for the sake of seeing how fast it is.