The CTA Sucks Whale Balls. (A touching little rant)
10 June 2008Seriously. They would screw up a one car funeral procession.
I got home tonight at 7:45 or so. I left work at 5PM. Some moron got himself killed near 27th street (nowhere NEAR the friggin loop, I might add) and that backed up the whole system. Seraph and I wound up walking from the Fullerton stop down to clark to catch a 22.
Problem one: Not enough rolling stock for the north side redline.
This is not just on days where there is an incident. Today it was more pronounced because of the incident. People talk about the “Three track hell” southbound on morning rush, but honestly, I have yet to have a problem there. The problem is the evening rush. Where the ratio is roughly 2-3 brown/purple line trains stopping, dumping transfers to 1 red line train. Today that ratio was something even worse. AND there was a cubs game. I am sure the CTA thought they were QUITE CLEVER with their announcement that the purple line would be making stops at Sheridan to help with the cubs traffic. However, its really not so clever because out of something like 6 brown line trains, I saw ONE purple line train.
Problem two: No fucking backup plans to move people.
Seriously. You have a yard at Midway. You have a yard Howard. You have a yard at Harlem. You have the newly rehabbed Paulina connector. WHAT THE HELL is wrong with you people? Move some damned trains into service. Seriously. Take them from howard, cross them over at fullerton and run them north again. Bring them in from the Midway yard, run them through the loop and then turn them into Red Line Trains once they pass Armitage. Stop trying to use trains already in the system to cover for your fuckups. MOVE THE STOCK you have sitting idle into service so you can cover the outages. And put more stock onto the red line. Or, maybe perhaps try out what people have been telling you: re-introduce skip stop.
Problem three: Governor Rod.
Thanks for shafting us yet again, Governor Asslick. You and Emil Jones passed a funding budget for the CTA. But your petty politics, and your silly squabbling has meant that the capital improvment money is nowhere to be found. Thanks. You people are starting to make people long for the good old days of George Ryan. Equally corrupt as our current Governor seems to be, but at least he wasnt a fucking retard with plastic looking hair and could actually get things done.
Problem four: Mayor Daley.
You give Irish people a bad name. Why dont you stop your public land grab attempts, and dig into your fat TIF slush funds to help with some of the problems the CTA has. It shouldnt just be the state’s or the fed’s job to fund it. CTA stands for CHICAGO transit authority. Why not help fund it?
And this city wants the Olympics? They have to be snorting something good at City Hall. I’ll put $20 on coke cut with pixie sticks.
Current Mood:
Angry & 
Annoyed & 
Hostile
