Guest Posted December 5, 2018 Report Share Posted December 5, 2018 I was looking at some footage of the 1967 Oak Lawn tornado I saw some still shots of buses mangled, crushed and overturned. What bus system was this that operated in this area at the time? I know today is Pace Southwest Div. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted December 5, 2018 Report Share Posted December 5, 2018 32 minutes ago, CTA5750 said: I was looking at some footage of the 1967 Oak Lawn tornado I saw some still shots of buses mangled, crushed and overturned. What bus system was this that operated in this area at the time? I know today is Pace Southwest Div. Suburban Transit Service. There are various references to it having acquired replacement old look buses. STS was best known for having FANTASY CHARTER headsigns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrethebusman Posted December 6, 2018 Report Share Posted December 6, 2018 Suburban Transit System had one main route from 63/Halsted via 63rd, Morgan, 87th, Vincennes, 95th with branches via 95th to Kean, 95th-Ridgeland-111th-Harlem-127th to Cal Sag, 95th-Roberts to 106th. Also from 63rd via Cicero to 103rd and from 63rd via Cicero-79th-Narragsnsett-87th-Central to 103rd. Tornado destroyed 11 buses, all old-looks used on school trippers. Replacements were 11 5105's from Columbus OH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrethebusman Posted December 6, 2018 Report Share Posted December 6, 2018 Also STS had very low fares. When CTA was charging 45, STS charged 15 on Morgan. When RTA standardized fares STS took a major increase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 6, 2018 Report Share Posted December 6, 2018 Wow! Interesting! Thank you all for the info! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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