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[Sam92]

1 hour ago, 18thalek said:

 

When I was a little kid, maybe about 10 or 12 years ago, I remember seeing artics on Archer and, I want to say Kedzie(?), in hingsight, i would presume that was for Kelly and Curie HS trips. I wonder when they stopped doing those.

Yeah Curie, Kelly and Kennedy. K gave 62 to 74th but retained school runs to interline with 125, 143 etc. They stopped during the pandemic. 82 Kimball-Homan uses them on school trippers, they pop on 52 rarely but it happened more when it was the 52 Kedzie-California but it wasn't an artic designated route like the 156 or 145

[dailycommuter62]

Post Archer closing 74th and Kedzie both had full time runs all day on Archer and 74th did the school trippers from 2010-12, I remember 1 of which came off the 53A.. Winter pick 2012 was when 74th took over the all base runs and Kedzie started doing the trippers and the artics started showing up on the route, they still show up today believe they only run to Wentworth. 

[Sam92]

5 hours ago, dailycommuter62 said:

Post Archer closing 74th and Kedzie both had full time runs all day on Archer and 74th did the school trippers from 2010-12, I remember 1 of which came off the 53A.. Winter pick 2012 was when 74th took over the all base runs and Kedzie started doing the trippers and the artics started showing up on the route, they still show up today believe they only run to Wentworth. 

Most got extended to Kinzie then interline with an express or LaSalle run

[FarNWSider773]

The Loop Shuttle was a CTA rail service that operated clockwise around the Loop, stopping at all stations. It ran on the inner track from September 1969 until its discontinuation in September 1977, providing daytime service Monday through Saturday (with no late-night or Sunday operations).

This web map depicts the Loop Shuttle and its stations.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=15w68H70idms4MjAlsXBSuuePwW_HVn4&ll=41.881818539714125%2C-87.62841907960399&z=16

[Busjack]

1 hour ago, FarNWSider773 said:

The Loop Shuttle was a CTA rail service that operated clockwise around the Loop, stopping at all stations. It ran on the inner track from September 1969 until its discontinuation in September 1977, providing daytime service Monday through Saturday (with no late-night or Sunday operations).

This web map depicts the Loop Shuttle and its stations.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=15w68H70idms4MjAlsXBSuuePwW_HVn4&ll=41.881818539714125%2C-87.62841907960399&z=16

So what???

The main function was to get riders from Wells St. to the Dan Ryan L while there was still a chance to get a seat ar Clark and Lakie. If there's a need to get to the Green Line today, the Orange Line serves it.

[FarNWSider773]

1 hour ago, Busjack said:

So what???

The main function was to get riders from Wells St. to the Dan Ryan L while there was still a chance to get a seat ar Clark and Lakie. If there's a need to get to the Green Line today, the Orange Line serves it.

I never knew this existed.

It doesn't makes sense to bring the shuttle back into service. Just thought it was an interesting tidbit of CTA history.

[Busjack]

1 hour ago, FarNWSider773 said:

I never knew this existed.

It doesn't makes sense to bring the shuttle back into service. Just thought it was an interesting tidbit of CTA history.

For any of this kind of history, look at chicago-l.org or maps at irm-cta.org.

I didn't think it significant because I rode it from Quincy for the indicated purpose.

And for a swipe at the transit "geniuses" at Brooklyn Tech HS, this is one of the reasons their harebrained proposal to eliminate junctions at Towers 12 and 18 won't work--you again couldn't get frpm Quincy to Clark and Lake.

[Elkmn]

4 hours ago, Busjack said:

And for a swipe at the transit "geniuses" at Brooklyn Tech HS, this is one of the reasons their harebrained proposal to eliminate junctions at Towers 12 and 18 won't work--you again couldn't get frpm Quincy to Clark and Lake.

I remember that video! What really annoyed me was how they mispronounced all the street names.

[sht6131]

On this pick I noticed that the 6 AM 82NB school trips from K were replaced by 6 from NP. My question is that I can`t find them SB. How do they get from NP to 31st. Do they deadhead?

[Bus fanatic30]

5 hours ago, sht6131 said:

On this pick I noticed that the 6 AM 82NB school trips from K were replaced by 6 from NP. My question is that I can`t find them SB. How do they get from NP to 31st. Do they deadhead?

I believe so, I’ve seen a few Np buses sitting at Roosevelt right before Homan at around 6am 

[Sam92]

9 hours ago, sht6131 said:

On this pick I noticed that the 6 AM 82NB school trips from K were replaced by 6 from NP. My question is that I can`t find them SB. How do they get from NP to 31st. Do they deadhead?

Wait K had some school trips? So did K do AM school trips and NP do PM since these were for that school up north?

[sht6131]

Yes. NP had 3 SB PM school trips. There were 2 for the school between Foster and Bryn Mawr and 1 for the school at Kedzie and Catalpa. They ended at Congress and went downtown to become NB. Kedzie AM school trips ended at Peterson and went east on Peterson to become SB trips to downtown.

If these NP school trips deadhead, Isn`t that a waste of time and miles. That`s a lot of stop and go. I thought maybe the 22 runs make a early trip downtown and head west to Central Pk. Could not find them. Than what about the 155 runs?

Maybe some drivers from NP know?

[Mr.NewFlyer1279]

1 hour ago, sht6131 said:

Yes. NP had 3 SB PM school trips. There were 2 for the school between Foster and Bryn Mawr and 1 for the school at Kedzie and Catalpa. They ended at Congress and went downtown to become NB. Kedzie AM school trips ended at Peterson and went east on Peterson to become SB trips to downtown.

If these NP school trips deadhead, Isn`t that a waste of time and miles. That`s a lot of stop and go. I thought maybe the 22 runs make a early trip downtown and head west to Central Pk. Could not find them. Than what about the 155 runs?

Maybe some drivers from NP know?

Very Correct, NP has school runs on the 82 in the AM the deadhead is NPG-Foster-DSLSD-Exit at Grand-Lower DuSable-Lower Wacker-I-290 West-Exit at Western-Roosevelt-Homan and start their NB trips at Roosevelt/Homan 

[sht6131]

Thank you. It solves my mystery.

[Sam92]

5 minutes ago, Mr.NewFlyer1279 said:

Very Correct, NP has school runs on the 82 in the AM the deadhead is NPG-Foster-DSLSD-Exit at Grand-Lower DuSable-Lower Wacker-I-290 West-Exit at Western-Roosevelt-Homan and start their NB trips at Roosevelt/Homan 

At least the interline with 155 makes sense. 

1 hour ago, sht6131 said:

Yes. NP had 3 SB PM school trips. There were 2 for the school between Foster and Bryn Mawr and 1 for the school at Kedzie and Catalpa. They ended at Congress and went downtown to become NB. Kedzie AM school trips ended at Peterson and went east on Peterson to become SB trips to downtown.

If these NP school trips deadhead, Isn`t that a waste of time and miles. That`s a lot of stop and go. I thought maybe the 22 runs make a early trip downtown and head west to Central Pk. Could not find them. Than what about the 155 runs?

Maybe some drivers from NP know?

For the sake of getting a school run back quicker I guess NP is a better choice since the school is right there... I guess I shouldn't be too surprised that K is doing school runs on a K route BUT K generally stays south of Belmont as far as LSD work so what were those interlining with from Peterson? 

[Mr.NewFlyer1279]

16 minutes ago, Sam92 said:

At least the interline with 155 makes sense

there’s interlines with the 155 that turns into a 22 or deadhead from devon/kedzie to howard to do the 22 and or 147 via devon-western-touhy-rogers

[sht6131]

The 82 AM school runs from previous picks were K runs that ended at Peterson and deadheaded east to do (if I remember correctly) SB 156`s. They were usually artic`s. Than I suppose they deadheaded from downtown back to K

[Sam92]

6 minutes ago, sht6131 said:

The 82 AM school runs from previous picks were K runs that ended at Peterson and deadheaded east to do (if I remember correctly) SB 156`s. They were usually artic`s. Than I suppose they deadheaded from downtown back to K

I guess you gotta do what you gotta do but since these end at Peterson it would seem better to have C run those and maybe become 53's to Erie vs deadhead 20 blocks east then 25 blocks south to do 156 🤷 then have to deadhead 4 miles to K. 

[artthouwill]

15 minutes ago, Sam92 said:

I guess you gotta do what you gotta do but since these end at Peterson it would seem better to have C run those and maybe become 53's to Erie vs deadhead 20 blocks east then 25 blocks south to do 156 🤷 then have to deadhead 4 miles to K. 

I forgot what school these trips are meant to serve,  but apparently they require artics.  I suppose the intent besides serving the school is to serve a high density rush route.  While I think K could still do the school trips on 82, why can't K do the trips on 22 or 147 downtown and then return to K? That eliminates the unnecessarily long DH from P to do a NB 82 and the long DH J would have to do from Peterson to Belmont to do 77/151/156.   To my knowledge P still handles the PN SB school trippers on the 82 which end  at the Blue Line or close by so they can easily DH downtown. 

[sht6131]

With all the different options you guys mention, my original question was legit as the present routing does not make sense. Maybe it will change on the winter pick. Thanks for the input.

[Busjack]

3 minutes ago, sht6131 said:

With all the different options you guys mention, my original question was legit as the present routing does not make sense. Maybe it will change on thso, aside from equipment e winter pick. Thanks for the input.

It is starting 1/2 mile from K, so, aside from equipment availability, the question is whether a true deadhead at 5 am on an uncrowded DLSD to start the run is better than a local trip back to K to end the run. I guess the assunption is that 82 doesn't need an additional trip from Devon to Roosevelt or 31st at about 7:30.

[Busjack]

ABC7: 1 in custody after woman set on fire on CTA Blue Line train in Loop

[Erin Mishkin Jr.]

In bus 4190, the number plate in the rear of the bus says #4323

[Busjack]

2 hours ago, Erin Mishkin Jr. said:

In bus 4190, the number plate in the rear of the bus says #4323

Someone must have salvaged the attached part from the bus that was hit by the dump truck at 103rd.

[Busjack]

On 11/18/2025 at 12:50 PM, Busjack said:

ABC7: 1 in custody after woman set on fire on CTA Blue Line train in Loop

Suspect facing federal charge of commission of a terrorist act on a mass transportation facility (18 U.S.C. 1992). ABC7 video.