There's A New Instagram Devoted To CTA Fails

By Kate Shepherd in News on Nov 9, 2015 6:44PM

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If you've spent enough time riding the CTA, it's probably let you down. CTA fails range from poorly timed delays during rush hour to unexplained detours to several buses arriving in a row. For years riders have been venting on Twitter via @CTAFails, and now the man behind CTA Fails, Ryan Smith, has launched a @CTAFail Instagram.

Smith launched account due to popular demand, he told DNAinfo. Even though Smith just launched the account about a week ago, @CTAFail had 608 followers as of late Monday morning.

Despite the complaints, which are usually are more funny than mean-spirited, Smith believes that the CTA is a good transit public system.

"Believe it or not, I actually think the CTA is a pretty solid transit system," he told DNAinfo. "It's fairly reliable and they're successful way more often than they fail."

But there's a universal appeal to crowd-sourced complaints about sketchy CTA service like the following:

#Repost @roecoflow ・・・ CTA Train Derailment, Red Line, Between Granville and Loyola. Oct. 31, 2015. "Evacuated" #chicago #cta #redline

A photo posted by @ctafail on Oct 31, 2015 at 1:08pm PDT

#Repost @pachinah ・・・ Damn it. #CTAfail

A photo posted by @ctafail on Nov 8, 2015 at 7:58am PST

#Repost @dbetczynski ・・・ Get it together redline, it's the middle of the day and these wait times are unnecessary. #ctafail #cta #chicago #chicity #redline #subway #grand #commute #commuter #wtf

A photo posted by @ctafail on Oct 31, 2015 at 11:01am PDT