BusHunter Posted July 23, 2017 Report Share Posted July 23, 2017 Maybe its just me but when did they start powerwashing the blue line kennedy express platforms? They do this at 5 in the morning as I'm riding then. They were doing Irving pk and it looks beautiful. The tactile edge has no grime on it at all. It looks new. The platform is very clean. Now why didnt they do this before? I dont think they can powerwash wood platforms but very few are wood now. Just Sheridan red line or a few green line stations. I sure hope they are doing stations that need it. Like a few have a lot of people relieving themselves. This was twice now in two or 3 weeks I saw the irving pk crew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artthouwill Posted July 23, 2017 Report Share Posted July 23, 2017 23 hours ago, BusHunter said: Maybe its just me but when did they start powerwashing the blue line kennedy express platforms? They do this at 5 in the morning as I'm riding then. They were doing Irving pk and it looks beautiful. The tactile edge has no grime on it at all. It looks new. The platform is very clean. Now why didnt they do this before? I dont think they can powerwash wood platforms but very few are wood now. Just Sheridan red line or a few green line stations. I sure hope they are doing stations that need it. Like a few have a lot of people relieving themselves. This was twice now in two or 3 weeks I saw the irving pk crew. I've seen crews powerwash at Roosevelt at the stationhouse and the elevated platform at 4:30 in the morning on my way to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted July 24, 2017 Report Share Posted July 24, 2017 1 hour ago, artthouwill said: I've seen crews powerwash at Roosevelt at the stationhouse and the elevated platform at 4:30 in the morning on my way to work. I wonder is it just specific stations or what? How come I'm not seeing them clean Montrose/Blue although it was very clean too. Jeff Pk looks really run down lately hopefully they can hurry up with it's rehab. It sounds like it will be really nice with the glass canopies in the bus terminal. Hopefully they can replace the train platform. I'm also interested in this Belmont/blue rehab. I wonder why there are no platform renderings. The station would look much better with some LED lighting. I've always been a fan of the acoustical panels in the subway but i don't know how that would look in the kimball subway. it needs some kind of modernization as it seems to be showing it's age lately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sw4400 Posted July 24, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2017 7 hours ago, BusHunter said: I wonder is it just specific stations or what? How come I'm not seeing them clean Montrose/Blue although it was very clean too. Jeff Pk looks really run down lately hopefully they can hurry up with it's rehab. It sounds like it will be really nice with the glass canopies in the bus terminal. Hopefully they can replace the train platform. I'm also interested in this Belmont/blue rehab. I wonder why there are no platform renderings. The station would look much better with some LED lighting. I've always been a fan of the acoustical panels in the subway but i don't know how that would look in the kimball subway. it needs some kind of modernization as it seems to be showing it's age lately. Kimball Subway? Am I missing something? I didn't recall of any Brown Line extensions in the works.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artthouwill Posted July 24, 2017 Report Share Posted July 24, 2017 1 hour ago, sw4400 said: Kimball Subway? Am I missing something? I didn't recall of any Brown Line extensions in the works.... Haha. That's funny. The O'Hare branch of the Blue Line has a subway with 2 stations, Logan Square and Belmont. Proceeding North from Logan Square, the subway runs under Kimball to Belmont. After Belmont, the subway curves NW to join the Kennedy Expressway. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTRSP1900-CTA3200 Posted July 24, 2017 Report Share Posted July 24, 2017 5 hours ago, sw4400 said: Kimball Subway? Am I missing something? I didn't recall of any Brown Line extensions in the works.... Sounds better than "that other subway the Blue Line goes through on the northwest side" in my opinion, even if Kimball Subway makes it sound like the Brown Line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted July 24, 2017 Report Share Posted July 24, 2017 Hey my dentist has an office right over the Kimball subway and when the train passes you can hear it pass. Sometimes the building seems to vibrate or maybe that is just the drill he is using. See you can multitask, if your a real train buff. You can get your teeth fixed and listen to trains at the same time!! Now just don't hear any #4000 whistles or I'll be jumping out of the chair. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sw4400 Posted July 25, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2017 Ok.... now I know what you meant.... the Kimball Subway. I was thinking a extension further west on the Brown Line past Kimball. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted July 25, 2017 Report Share Posted July 25, 2017 10 hours ago, sw4400 said: Ok.... now I know what you meant.... the Kimball Subway. I was thinking a extension further west on the Brown Line past Kimball. Then it wouldn't be Kimball. It might be the Leland Subway, if Elon Musk can get his boring machine there. I don't think one was proposed to Von Steuben HS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephanie09 Posted July 27, 2017 Report Share Posted July 27, 2017 Hey CTA riders, I'm working with a team on a school project about the CTA. We are trying to figure out the goals, needs, frustrations and challenges for riders of the CTA. Could you help us out by taking this short survey? It's completely anonymous and the data will not be shared outside of the classroom. The survey itself should take less than 5 minutes. We'd really appreciate it! Thanks in advance. https://goo.gl/forms/o7pdWZG4MjoUyKRZ2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted July 28, 2017 Report Share Posted July 28, 2017 17 hours ago, Stephanie09 said: We are trying to figure out the goals, needs, frustrations and challenges for riders of the CTA. If anyone wants to go in this direction, there is a Sun-Times investigation that crime is up 90% on the CTA, Then there was the report last night that a 71 bus had to swerve to avoid gun fire (should have said St. Lawrence, not Lawrence). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bridgeportbus Posted August 10, 2017 Report Share Posted August 10, 2017 There are 8 NP attics parked in front of the marina city. All of them have 146 run numbers in the box. Sorry the photos arent great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orionbuslover Posted August 11, 2017 Report Share Posted August 11, 2017 Bears game. I remember a few years back seeing this on a Sunday morning. A sight to see State St empty with attics parked in the middle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChicagoNova Posted August 13, 2017 Report Share Posted August 13, 2017 Spotted an old RTS at South Shops & 1 of NYCMTA's NF XD60 artics eastbound on the Dan Ryan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TransitXan17 Posted August 19, 2017 Report Share Posted August 19, 2017 When I was in San Francisco, the MUNI Metro, had a Streetcar Line called the F Line. And I saw one of the coolest things ever! I found an old CTA Streetcar #1058 Green Hornet on the line! This Line was meant to bring retired Streetcars from around the world, and put it on to one line. Other cities included Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Mexico City, and Milan, Italy. Image Credit (My Instagram) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TransitXan17 Posted August 19, 2017 Report Share Posted August 19, 2017 On 7/24/2017 at 9:55 PM, sw4400 said: Ok.... now I know what you meant.... the Kimball Subway. I was thinking a extension further west on the Brown Line past Kimball. You know what would be a good extension on the Brown Line? A western extension on Lawrence to the Jefferson Park Transit Center. This way people from Albany Park, Lincoln Square, Uptown, and Ravenswood can get easier access to O'Hare by connecting to the Blue Line! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted August 19, 2017 Report Share Posted August 19, 2017 5 minutes ago, TransitXan17 said: You know what would be a good extension on the Brown Line? A western extension on Lawrence to the Jefferson Park Transit Center. This way people from Albany Park, Lincoln Square, Uptown, and Ravenswood can get easier access to O'Hare by connecting to the Blue Line! Theoretically, yes, but what's the cost of boring an approximately 2 mile tunnel under Lawrence Ave.? Among that, the proposal for the Mid City Line, and extending the Yellow Line from Oakton to Jefferson Park, I couldn't figure out how all those lines were to have a junction with a line in a very narrow median of an expressway. Not that any of them would be built. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted August 20, 2017 Report Share Posted August 20, 2017 1 hour ago, Busjack said: Theoretically, yes, but what's the cost of boring an approximately 2 mile tunnel under Lawrence Ave.? Among that, the proposal for the Mid City Line, and extending the Yellow Line from Oakton to Jefferson Park, I couldn't figure out how all those lines were to have a junction with a line in a very narrow median of an expressway. Not that any of them would be built. Probably the only thing they could really do cheaply is make the #81 a limited bus or have BRT services but what would you do with all the Lawrence parking? If you did like they did on Cicero and bought a few properties, they could build parking lots to park in. (Hmm... hint hint) If Pace can ever get off the ground floor with it's Pulse service it could wipe the floor with CTA's BRT idea, that is basically a concept. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wordguy Posted August 20, 2017 Report Share Posted August 20, 2017 7 hours ago, TransitXan17 said: When I was in San Francisco, the MUNI Metro, had a Streetcar Line called the F Line. And I saw one of the coolest things ever! I found an old CTA Streetcar #1058 Green Hornet on the line! This Line was meant to bring retired Streetcars from around the world, and put it on to one line. Other cities included Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Mexico City, and Milan, Italy. Image Credit (My Instagram) Most of the domestic postwar streetcars in F service, like 1058, came from Philadelphia's SEPTA (SouthEast Pennsylvania Transit Authority). They've all been repainted in the historical colors of other urban transit systems from all across the nation, including the CTA's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strictures Posted August 20, 2017 Report Share Posted August 20, 2017 12 hours ago, wordguy said: Most of the domestic postwar streetcars in F service, like 1058, came from Philadelphia's SEPTA (SouthEast Pennsylvania Transit Authority). They've all been repainted in the historical colors of other urban transit systems from all across the nation, including the CTA's. Do you board at the rear door & pay a conductor, or is it just a motorman at the front? Does it still have all three doors, as the Green Hornets were the only PCC cars to have that & they were also offset on their trucks, so they could pass each other on some narrow Chicago streets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted August 20, 2017 Report Share Posted August 20, 2017 10 minutes ago, strictures said: Do you board at the rear door & pay a conductor, or is it just a motorman at the front? Does it still have all three doors, as the Green Hornets were the only PCC cars to have that & they were also offset on their trucks, so they could pass each other on some narrow Chicago streets. I think you missed @wordguy's point that it was a SEPTA car, painted in various liveries, including CTA. Similarly, the Kenosha cars, including the one in this paint scheme, are Toronto cars. The only way one is going to get to ride a Green Hornet with a rear entrance door is if IRM hauls 4391 out. 570 were scrapped to be converted into 6200 series and 1-50 L cars, and pretty much anything else what was left was scrapped in conversion experiments or just plain scrapped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvwnsd Posted August 21, 2017 Report Share Posted August 21, 2017 9 hours ago, Busjack said: I think you missed @wordguy's point that it was a SEPTA car, painted in various liveries, including CTA. Similarly, the Kenosha cars, including the one in this paint scheme, are Toronto cars. The only way one is going to get to ride a Green Hornet with a rear entrance door is if IRM hauls 4391 out. 570 were scrapped to be converted into 6200 series and 1-50 L cars, and pretty much anything else what was left was scrapped in conversion experiments or just plain scrapped. It is too bad Market Street Railway did not have enough ex-SF Muni double-ended cars to paint one of them in CTA's colors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted August 21, 2017 Report Share Posted August 21, 2017 8 hours ago, rvwnsd said: It is too bad Market Street Railway did not have enough ex-SF Muni double-ended cars to paint one of them in CTA's colors. I'm surprised at that, as SF supposedly had the newest PCC cars. However, SEPTA and Pittsburgh kept remanufacturing theirs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sw4400 Posted August 22, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2017 !!!*Breaking News*!!! Reports coming in about a CTA Bus evacuated due to a person throwing a backpack into a closing door, yelling something(reports say Arabic) and leaving. Bus is evacuated and everyone moved away. Level 1 Hazmat called in with Bomb & Arson. Everyone moved away from scene... Update: Suspect had escaped in a white sedan driven by a female from the scene. Gym bag was thrown onto the bus containing water, causing utter panic. Hopefully, this sick individual is found and jailed! Bus #1630 Link(ABC7) Link(WGN-TV) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wordguy Posted September 6, 2017 Report Share Posted September 6, 2017 A few post-Labor-Day equipment transfers to report, all from Chicago Ave. to either Forest Glen or Kedzie: 1000-1004 C to F. Someone already updated this one. 1380(?)-1385 C to F also. 1377 still at C, but not sure about 1378-79. 1835-1839 C to K. An additional move: Migration of 2 or 3 buses from North Park to Kedzie: 1842 & 1846. (Uncertain about 1847. 1848 remains at NP.) (Source: Math22's roster of buses in real-time service.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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