Own Your Favorite CTA "L" Station Signage

By Chuck Sudo in News on Jun 4, 2012 8:20PM

With today's announcement that CTA is shutting down the entire South branch of the Red Line for a full-scale rebuild for five months next year still stuck like a sesame seed between our teeth, this may not be the ideal time to mention that the transit agency reached an agreement to sell replica signage from the agency's 144 train stations.

Brooklyn-based Underground Signs announced the agreement today to sell the replica signage as gifts, with options to customize. Underground Signs already does the same with New York and Boston rail stations and founder Trevor MacDermid said in a statement, “We look forward to selling CTA station signs to people in Chicago, and around the country who want to show-off their Chicago roots.”

The cost for a sign is $299 so those of you who still steal the maps of the rail system from "L" cars (when you could simply buy them for $36) aren't going to suddenly shell out your PBR money now. But our birthday is this week and if the staff would love to pool their resources to buy a Halsted Orange Line station sign customized to read "Chicagoist HQ," we wouldn't turn it down.

CTA will receive a percentage of sales from the signs sold.