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What Paint Livery will the CTA use on it's new buses?


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What Paint Livery will the CTA use on it's new buses?  

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    • White, Blue, and Red(Current Livery)
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    • Red, White, and Blue(CompoBus Livery)
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    • Green and White(Classic Livery used on GM Fishbowls, M.A.N Buses, and Flyer D901's)
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    • Other(Please Specify)
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I was going to say the new livery, but since I'm not as impressed by it as I should, perhaps they should do a new look compobus/albino livery:

Red or Blue (on the top), and Silver (on the bottom)...

...but thats just it.

My other suggestion is that they revert to what the LACMTA is doing: color coding the buses (blue-express, red-metrorapid, orange-local, etc.)

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I would like the CTA to go back to their original logo with the CTA in a circle with the Metropolitan Transit swoosh along with the color scheme from the 60's of the dark green and white. I remember the "suggestion bus" roaming around the city, soliciting suggestions for what the public wanted in the 1000 series buses that were being built at the time. I remember thinking about an all blue bus. Looking at the new Pace color schemes I ask myself, what was I thinking.

Going back, to me, would represent something that we probably will never see again...buses every 2-3 minutes in rush hour, 7-9 in off peak..skip stop trains, conductors making for a faster train trip, Sunday supertransfers, heck transfers in general...ahhhhh...time to get out of fantasy land and come back to real time !!!! Anyway, dark green and white.

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OK lets have some fun.  Since the auto co.s are into retro looking cars (PT Cruiser, Mini, and whatever the Chevy thing is) and the BNSF loco paint scheme is basicly a throw-back to the GN  what about a retro scheme for the CTA?

Here's CTA (nee CMC) 1431, date and location unknown, but what would this scheme look like on a 40LF.

Or better yet why make someone look closely at a logo to figure out where you're at, spell out where you are i.e. CTA 1111 at Soldier Field, Paul Hunnell photo, splash this on a 40LF, is there enough room?

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