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Can’t wait to see red line trains in 4 cars at late night

Nothing on the site which should have at least an upcoming alert with it being the Friday before. Is it possible that outside of letting operators pick new shifts this pick focused mainly on the added time involved with coupling/de-coupling and didn't bother shifting the departures?

is this a good thing?

Any word on actual schedule adjustments?

about time

I don't think this precludes adding cars if, for example. there's a big game at new Ryan Field.

Update: I changed this post after finding SB2111 and the following in the Tribune: "As a counterbalance to pulling hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for road work, the bill also included a sharp, 45-cent-per-toll increase on the Illinois Tollway, which one GOP lawmaker said amounted to a 60% increase. The new tollway fares could generate as much as $1 billion annually for roadwork on the tollways that serve about a dozen counties, supporters said." This implies that I-Pass on passenger cars would be irrelevant to the fixed surcharge. Apparently it is it is 45 cents at the usual 0.95/1.90 toll on the Tr-State morth of O'Hare, and also $1.40/$2.80 at the Waukegan Toll Plaza, and the frequent .20/.40 toll on Ill. 390. It appears that tolls became more graduated with open-road tolling. The toll schedule is here, which also reveals that commercial vehicles don't get an I-Pass discount. The fixed increase is irrelevant, as the bill provides and the Trib says: "In addition to the 45-cent-per-toll hike for passenger vehicles on Illinois State Toll Highway Authority roads, the legislation called for increasing tolls for commercial vehicles by 30%. Tolls could continue to increase in subsequent years through inflation-based increases..."

Wow. It’s been so long since we seen 4 cars. Besides the pink line.

If my memory serves me correctly, this would mean the Blue Line and the Red Line will remain with 8 car consists all day and go to 4 car consists overnight. The Green Line, Orange Line, the Purple Line Shuttle and the Brown Line will get 4 car consists during off peak hours. Thee Pink Line and the Yellow Line will remain unchanged. This should save some railcars from racking up unnecessary mileage. It should also add a little more safety as the railcars will have more passengers in them.

Prepare for some packed trains if 4 cars across many lines are also on the weekend.

While Purple ran primarily 2400s, they only had about 40 to 50 max, which meant they needed about 20 2600s to supplement the Express service. I guess they also used them on the shuttle service also. The Yellow Line used the 2600s when they went to third rail and their 3200s went to the Brown Line.

I wonder if people switching to Ipass would impact this since it gives 1/2 off the tolls and I-355/88 drivers in particular are pretty high if you don't have one

You're right. Here's something from '99. I'm guessing maybe they went to off peak 4's at the same time green did, which I remember was also running 2's(2001-2002?). Speaking of... If purple was mainly 2600s in that period when did the switch to mainly 2400s? When I was riding with my dad up north (early 2000s) I seemed to see a lot of them, then around 3 track I would see mainly 2400s but 2600s and 3200s (after the cameras were installed) would also make frequent appearances

I kinda knew something like this was gonna happen eventually.

Maybe I'm going too far back (but not as far as the single units), but in the time of the 2600s, werem't the Evanston Shuttles 2 cars?

https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-house-passes-public-transit-funding-bill-address-rta-budget-gap/18094306/ https://www.nbcchicago.com/traffic/transit/illinois-general-assembly-passes-massive-1-5-billion-mass-transit-bill/3845869/ 4 a.m. I guess one shouldn't be surprised. Anyway, RIP RTA. Looks like most of it comes from the sales tax on gas.

The CTA has been running the maximum car lengths on all trips on all of the aforementioned lines (8 cars on the Blue, Brown, Orange and Red Lines and 6 cars on the Green and Purple Lines) since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The change will mark a return to normalcy. The Pink and Yellow lines will remain unchanged since they already run with fewer than 6 cars in a consist (4 cars on the Pink and 2 cars on the Yellow) even during rush periods.

If they're enforcing this like pre COVID then I guess we'll be seeing 8 car owls on the red 🥴🤭

Bill has passed.

Good evening or morning. Just sharing some information on train consists during early AM, middays, evenings, overnights and weekends. Looks like CTA is returning to the pre-Covid 4 cars consists again on the Blue 🔵, Brown 🟤, Green 🟢, Orange 🟠, Purple 🟣 and Red 🔴 lines.

That clarifies it. I suppose the car cameras caught it.

This is from the Sun Times. Looks like he wasn’t on top of the train.

Seeing the article again, the headline was "fell from a moving train," which is where I got the surfing idea. I don't know how the medical examiner could tell. Maybe there were some train scraps on the body.

I remember asking someone if their trains shake/tilt and bounce as bad as they do here cause that alone is probably enough to make people not try that here. Can you imagine trying to maintain balance on top of a Red Line roaring between Belmont and Fullerton? There are some jogs that you don't really slow down that much

I've never heard of the roof surfing here. It appears to be a NYC problem, exclusively. They don't even try it on those few 3200s that still have the roof boards leftover from when the Swift had the pan trolley poles.