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[jajuan]

16 minutes ago, RJL6000 said:

Only 1819 and the 1820s and 1830s went to Chicago.

On another note, in addition to 1376-1385 and 8200-8211, Chicago also received 1601 from 77th.

From the looks of today, very little has changed with artic deployment levels and patterns at the remaining artic garages. NP's artic count didn't change since it sent the same amount of artics to Kedzie that it sent got from Chicago. So it's no surprise it's artic deployments haven't changed. But it looks like though that Kedzie and 103rd are treating their increase in artics as extras to have on standby just in case since each didn't exactly increase the number of artics on the road too much beyond Sam noting this morning that the 82 had a few extra artics during the rush period. 6, J14, and 26 all still had 1000s in service today, and 6 and J14 both had at least one 1000 on the road yesterday and Saturday. 

[ajm522]

6 minutes ago, jajuan said:

From the looks of today, very little has changed with artic deployment levels and patterns at the remaining artic garages. NP's artic count didn't change since it sent the same amount of artics to Kedzie that it sent got from Chicago. So it's no surprise it's artic deployments haven't changed. But it looks like though that Kedzie and 103rd are treating their increase in artics as extras to have on standby just in case since each didn't exactly increase the number of artics on the road too much beyond Sam noting this morning that the 82 had a few extra artics during the rush period. 6, J14, and 26 all still had 1000s in service today, and 6 and J14 both had at least one 1000 on the road yesterday and Saturday. 

82 Artics have always done a few of the morning trips to Devon. In PM NP sends one or two out.

[sht6131]

I think the K artics mentioned in the AM are school trips (I believe 4)that terminate at Peterson than head east for a AM trip downtown.

The NP PM trips are school trips to Congress than head east for a downtown PM trip north.

[jajuan]

1 hour ago, ajm522 said:

82 Artics have always done a few of the morning trips to Devon. In PM NP sends one or two out.

Either way, not much has changed at Kedzie or 103rd in terms of artic deployment patterns. They're both treating their extra artics so far more like standbys and a bigger list of choices to pick from since as has been noted the number of artics they sent out has been more in keeping with what they typically use on a weekday. 

[Busjack]

RedEye review of transit for the year. Relevant here to the test of plastic inserts, apparently the 20 somethings to whom the RedEye caters do not like fabric seat inserts.

[sw4400]

Bus sideswiped in police chase this morning(#1227).....

http://abc7chicago.com/news/4-in-custody-after-suv-crashes-into-cta-bus/1666909/

[Sam92]

Looks like ridership on the 26 midday is up.  I see about 6-7 artics on the route and like 2-3 1000's. 

[jajuan]

3 hours ago, Sam92 said:

Looks like ridership on the 26 midday is up.  I see about 6-7 artics on the route and like 2-3 1000's. 

Not really much of a change there. There are times of the midday when artics would outnumber the 40 footers on the 26 even before the 103rd artic increase. . 

[BusHunter]

Don't look now but it seems #1756 and #1757 has left the Glen for NP. i haven't been keeping track lately, I don't know if this is a new or old move or one that never occurred to begin with!!

[RJL6000]

21 hours ago, BusHunter said:

Don't look now but it seems #1756 and #1757 has left the Glen for NP. i haven't been keeping track lately, I don't know if this is a new or old move or one that never occurred to begin with!!

They are both back at the Glen as of now.

On another note, 77th did borrow one clean diesel 4333-series artic from NP: #4397 is currently on route 3 (King Drive).

[patman119]

5 minutes ago, RJL6000 said:

They are both back at the Glen as of now.

On another note, 77th did borrow one clean diesel 4333-series artic from NP: #4397 is currently on route 3 (King Drive).

Isn't 4397 the holiday bus? That may be why it was on there today.

[ajm522]

4397 holiday bus will be back on #3 today.

[geneking7320]

12 hours ago, ajm522 said:

4397 holiday bus will be back on #3 today.

I saw it southbound at 25th and King Dr around 7:30pm or so.

I was too slow to get an iPhone pic though.

[jajuan]

On 12/17/2016 at 8:00 AM, ajm522 said:

You are correct from hearing from FT operators they have those Monday's off.

Sunday schedules for Monday and the following Monday, Jan. 2nd due to Christmas and New Year's Day falling on Sundays confirmed by systemwide alerts listed on the CTA Alerts page.

[geneking7320]

Hi Folks;

Twice recently on the westbound #95 I have used the Ctatext function to determine the next bus arrival time.

Once I was at the stop near the South Chicago MED station [on east 92nd street] and 27 minutes was indicated. When I turned and faced east [in less than 1 minute] the bus was crossing the tracks. Christmas night I waited for the bus at 93rd and Jeffery [stop code 12015]. It was a bit foggy and I didn't see a bus coming but it was due to arrive in 22 minutes. The 22 minutes went by in less than 60 seconds. The driver thought that the 22 minutes might have been the bus which followed him. I think it should have shown DUE. In any event I was glad I didn't have a long wait for the bus.

Hope you all had a great Christmas!

 

 

[Busjack]

5 hours ago, geneking7320 said:

Hi Folks;

Twice recently on the westbound #95 I have used the Ctatext function to determine the next bus arrival time.

Once I was at the stop near the South Chicago MED station [on east 92nd street] and 27 minutes was indicated. When I turned and faced east [in less than 1 minute] the bus was crossing the tracks. Christmas night I waited for the bus at 93rd and Jeffery [stop code 12015]. It was a bit foggy and I didn't see a bus coming but it was due to arrive in 22 minutes. The 22 minutes went by in less than 60 seconds. The driver thought that the 22 minutes might have been the bus which followed him. I think it should have shown DUE. In any event I was glad I didn't have a long wait for the bus.

Hope you all had a great Christmas!

 

 

Sounds like whatever the programming error on the 95 Clever Device is persisting 3 months and another pick after the  change.

[Busjack]

14 hours ago, geneking7320 said:

Once I was at the stop near the South Chicago MED station [on east 92nd street] and 27 minutes was indicated. When I turned and faced east [in less than 1 minute] the bus was crossing the tracks. Christmas night I waited for the bus at 93rd and Jeffery [stop code 12015]. It was a bit foggy and I didn't see a bus coming but it was due to arrive in 22 minutes. The 22 minutes went by in less than 60 seconds.

 

9 hours ago, Busjack said:

Sounds like whatever the programming error on the 95 Clever Device is persisting 3 months and another pick after the  change.

To confirm that, it is the height of the rush hour. Andre said it takes 12 buses to run the route, which makes sense since it is a 2 hour round trip running every 11-13 minutes. Yet, Bus Tracker shows only 5 buses:

[jajuan]

2 hours ago, Busjack said:

 

To confirm that, it is the height of the rush hour. Andre said it takes 12 buses to run the route, which makes sense since it is a 2 hour round trip running every 11-13 minutes. Yet, Bus Tracker shows only 5 buses:

So after all this time, the "fix" is that just over half the buses on the route are still ghosts after the initial problem of a number of the buses displaying #90 (or was it #90N?) signs.

[Busjack]

13 minutes ago, jajuan said:

So after all this time, the "fix" is that just over half the buses on the route are still ghosts after the initial problem of a number of the buses displaying #90 (or was it #90N?) signs.

The 2 necessary fixes are separate. As I mentioned, there must be a programming error in the Clever Device that causes the buses not to show up on BusTracker, or anything derived from it, such as ctatext. They've had 4 months to fix it but have not.

Now, whether the Luminator program has been fixed to show the destinations of 95 87th-Damen and 95 92nd-Buffalo will have to be determined by someone standing at a bus stop.*

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*Similar to when I said that 604 was on Webwatch, but at the corner of Hintz Road and Buffalo Grove  Road, the bus signs displayed "A1 Message."

[andrethebusman]

Last week's transfers list:

Buses In

103rd = 4098, 4106-4116, 4177-4186

77 th = 1193-1207

Kedzie = 4053-4066

Chicago = 1810-1812 ,1815 ,1816 ,1820 ,1823 ,1828 ,1830 ,1834-1836 ,1838 ,1839 ,1928 ,8200-8211 ,1376-1385 ,1601 .

North Park = 4075-4079 ,4119 – 4127 ,4129-4139 ,4141.

Buses out

103rd = 1193-1207

77 th = 1376-1385 ,1601 ,8200-8211.

Kedzie = 1819 ,1821 ,1822 ,1825 ,1826 ,1827 ,1829 ,1830 ,1834 ,1835 ,1836 ,1838 ,1839 ,1928 .

Chicago = 4075-4079, 4098 ,4106-4116 ,4119-4127 ,4129-4139 ,4141 ,4177-4181 .

North Park = 1810-1812 ,1815 ,1816 ,1820 ,1823 ,1828,1947 ,1961 ,1965 ,1997 ,1998 ,4053 – 4066.

 

[geneking7320]

I last rode the #95 Tuesday 12/27/16. I can say the destinations of 95 87th-Damen and 95 92nd-Buffalo were the only ones I saw.

[YoungBusLover]

I'm just amazed at this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TJ8k13tEko

[sw4400]

39 minutes ago, YoungBusLover said:

I'm just amazed at this.

http:// https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TJ8k13tEko

As am I...... Your link takes me back to page 1 of this topic. Did you double link or over-link somehow??? I'm sure you were trying to share a YouTube video by what I see here....

[jajuan]

9 hours ago, YoungBusLover said:

I'm just amazed at this.

http:// https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TJ8k13tEko

The link in your post redirects back to the beginning of this thread instead of a video you apparently were trying to share.

[Busjack]

9 minutes ago, jajuan said:

The link in your post redirects back to the beginning of this thread instead of a video you apparently were trying to share.

This smells like some sort of database error, rather than the commenter's, so I so reported it to the administrators.