YoungBusLover Posted July 3 Report Share Posted July 3 16 minutes ago, artthouwill said: They are pronounced the same but have different meanings. A synonym for PHASE might be stage. Also PHASED could signal a beginning ir end of a stage as in phasing out a bus or train series. The word Fazed is to be affected or to give thought, care, or concern to. In the context given, FAZED is the correct word. According to the OED, "to phase" is both an alternative spelling of "to faze", and its own verb. While it's certainly not an everyday verb, "to phase" has its own range of meanings, one example from the dictionary "bablah introduced a phased programmed" - anything with phases and phasers could apply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artthouwill Posted July 3 Report Share Posted July 3 15 hours ago, YoungBusLover said: And yet, the city is reaping what it sows now.....The fact that the newest buses in the fleet have the latest technology in regards to camera quality and yet the criminals themselves aren't phased by it. This is the original quote and the proper word @strictures was referring to is FAZED. Dictionary Com says Fazed " Adjective disconcerted. Worried. Concerned Based on your use in the last sentence of the above paragraph, this faze is the proper word. But I totally agree with your overall sentiment. The criminals don't care. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted July 3 Report Share Posted July 3 14 hours ago, Javi75 said: Unfortunately these people have nothing to lose, they have no regard for their own lives. I find it hard to believe that 14-17 year olds are on a suicide mission. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artthouwill Posted July 3 Report Share Posted July 3 6 minutes ago, Busjack said: I find it hard to believe that 14-17 year olds are on a suicide mission. Being in the city, I realize that a lot of these young people don't expect to live past 25 years old. They're hoping just to see tomorrow. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted July 3 Report Share Posted July 3 Sun-Times: Milwaukee visitor charged with wounding bus driver in CTA gun battle that also left his cousin dead. Stay on MCTS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted July 5 Report Share Posted July 5 The underbelly of developers and CTA aacording to the Sun-Times: "The Democratic National Convention is using CTA offices near the United Center sublet from Chicago developer Scott Goodman, whose company has stiffed the CTA and Cook County for more than $2 million in rent and property taxes." While the usual stuff about how developers use LLCs (I'm sure no one else here is concerned about that), the CTA connected question is why CTA is having this developer building a new control center, while the supposedly secret control center at 120 N. Racine is mostly empty? Of course, the Board of Pastors is oblivious to the details of these deals. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artthouwill Posted July 16 Report Share Posted July 16 Interesting that Chicago is under a tornado warning, even downtown, and the CTA website shows normal service on all Lines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strictures Posted July 16 Report Share Posted July 16 8 hours ago, artthouwill said: Interesting that Chicago is under a tornado warning, even downtown, and the CTA website shows normal service on all Lines. When the storm passed over me in Rogers Park, there weren't any high winds, just heavy rain that started at 10:02 PM & lasted maybe 20 minutes, followed by another hour of light rain. In total. just a bit under an inch of rain here. Got far more rain Saturday night into Sunday morning, 1.65 inches according to the rain gauge in my back yard. But as usual, Metra went into panic mode & shut down their trains, with the usual high winds are the cause. I had several Metra alert emails to that effect, but certainly not as many as 10 years ago, when the Union Pacific dispatchers in Omaha would shut it down at just a hint of 40 MPH winds. Now Metra does have the occasional tree falling on the tracks during these events, which the CTA doesn't have to worry about, as they've cut down all the trees that used to grow on the embankment on the Far North Side. As for the tornado warning, at least this time it was appropriate for the city to use the sirens, but I also remember a number of years ago, when there was a warning in far South Orland Park, some idiot in City Hall set off all the sirens in the city, even 40 miles away here in Rogers Park! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artthouwill Posted July 16 Report Share Posted July 16 2 hours ago, strictures said: When the storm passed over me in Rogers Park, there weren't any high winds, just heavy rain that started at 10:02 PM & lasted maybe 20 minutes, followed by another hour of light rain. In total. just a bit under an inch of rain here. Got far more rain Saturday night into Sunday morning, 1.65 inches according to the rain gauge in my back yard. But as usual, Metra went into panic mode & shut down their trains, with the usual high winds are the cause. I had several Metra alert emails to that effect, but certainly not as many as 10 years ago, when the Union Pacific dispatchers in Omaha would shut it down at just a hint of 40 MPH winds. Now Metra does have the occasional tree falling on the tracks during these events, which the CTA doesn't have to worry about, as they've cut down all the trees that used to grow on the embankment on the Far North Side. As for the tornado warning, at least this time it was appropriate for the city to use the sirens, but I also remember a number of years ago, when there was a warning in far South Orland Park, some idiot in City Hall set off all the sirens in the city, even 40 miles away here in Rogers Park! Considering the high winds and the multiple spotted tornados in the suburbs coupled with the height of the Metra cars, it was very wise to shut down Metra service. There are YouTube videos of trains trying to navigate tornados or extremely high winds only for the train to end up derailing. Fortunately those were freight trains and not passenger trains. Perhaps with buildings that help buffer the winds, CTA did not have to curtail or suspended service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam92 Posted July 16 Report Share Posted July 16 2 hours ago, strictures said: When the storm passed over me in Rogers Park, there weren't any high winds, just heavy rain that started at 10:02 PM & lasted maybe 20 minutes, followed by another hour of light rain. In total. just a bit under an inch of rain here. Got far more rain Saturday night into Sunday morning, 1.65 inches according to the rain gauge in my back yard. But as usual, Metra went into panic mode & shut down their trains, with the usual high winds are the cause. I had several Metra alert emails to that effect, but certainly not as many as 10 years ago, when the Union Pacific dispatchers in Omaha would shut it down at just a hint of 40 MPH winds. Now Metra does have the occasional tree falling on the tracks during these events, which the CTA doesn't have to worry about, as they've cut down all the trees that used to grow on the embankment on the Far North Side. As for the tornado warning, at least this time it was appropriate for the city to use the sirens, but I also remember a number of years ago, when there was a warning in far South Orland Park, some idiot in City Hall set off all the sirens in the city, even 40 miles away here in Rogers Park! Better to have a siren go off just in case than to not have it go off and something does happen 🤷 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
18thalek Posted July 16 Report Share Posted July 16 Hey everyone, I'm doing a little research for a website about CTA history I have, and I'm curious if anyone could help me out with this: looking for times / incidents where severe weather (thunderstorm, flooding, tornado) disrupted CTA service in any notable way. Could be either rail or bus service, but I'm looking for notable incidents to have occurred over the past 50 years or so. if you remember anything, feel free to share Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pudgym29 Posted July 16 Report Share Posted July 16 Oh wow. This is why my UP-W train back from Elmhurst, due at 11:13 pm, did not arrive until 11:50 pm. 😬 This made my CTA connection pretty restricted. I'll refer in these photographs of Cicero & Lake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strictures Posted July 16 Report Share Posted July 16 2 hours ago, 18thalek said: Hey everyone, I'm doing a little research for a website about CTA history I have, and I'm curious if anyone could help me out with this: looking for times / incidents where severe weather (thunderstorm, flooding, tornado) disrupted CTA service in any notable way. Could be either rail or bus service, but I'm looking for notable incidents to have occurred over the past 50 years or so. if you remember anything, feel free to share The Underground Flood of 1992 comes to mind, the Loop subway tunnels flooded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted July 16 Report Share Posted July 16 1 hour ago, strictures said: The Underground Flood of 1992 comes to mind, the Loop subway tunnels flooded. However, that wasn't severe weather.A contractor at the Grand Ave. bridge punctured the river bottom, flooding a freight tunnel and then the rest of the underground, including the CTA subways. Main CTA weather caused disruption was the blizzard of 1979 (chicago-l.org page). There's also plenty of pictures of stalled buses in the blizzard of 1967, and on LSD in the blizzard of 2011. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strictures Posted July 17 Report Share Posted July 17 3 hours ago, Busjack said: However, that wasn't severe weather.A contractor at the Grand Ave. bridge punctured the river bottom, flooding a freight tunnel and then the rest of the underground, including the CTA subways. Main CTA weather caused disruption was the blizzard of 1979 (chicago-l.org page). There's also plenty of pictures of stalled buses in the blizzard of 1967, and on LSD in the blizzard of 2011. He said notable incidents & the flood was notable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon tahoeppv Posted July 17 Report Share Posted July 17 Look what I spotted just now Snapchat-1213115077.mp4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erin Mishkin Jr. Posted July 17 Report Share Posted July 17 42 minutes ago, Shannon tahoeppv said: Look what I spotted just now Snapchat-1213115077.mp4 that accident was 4 years ago. earlier this month this bus was involved in a minor collision but as shown in the video it's running agian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon tahoeppv Posted July 17 Report Share Posted July 17 2 minutes ago, Erin Mishkin Jr. said: that accident was 4 years ago. earlier this month this bus was involved in a minor collision but as shown in the video it's running agian. Dsm that's been 4 years already I thought it was 2 years & dam didn't know it was in a crash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erin Mishkin Jr. Posted July 17 Report Share Posted July 17 4 minutes ago, Shannon tahoeppv said: Dsm that's been 4 years already I thought it was 2 years & dam didn't know it was in a crash yea because it's back in service now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted July 17 Report Share Posted July 17 WTF is going on? Sun-Times: "A group of adolescents, including an 11-year-old girl, is facing felony charges after they allegedly beat up a man on a CTA train earlier this month, police said. On July 8, the group — a 16-year-old boy, 15 year-old-girl, 14-year-old boy and 11-year-old girl — was on a[n Orange Line] train in the first block of West Congress Parkway {probably not, and isn't that Ida B. Wells Dr. at Congress Circle] when they began battering a 63-year-old man, according to Chicago police. They also took his belongings." Ea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artthouwill Posted July 17 Report Share Posted July 17 17 minutes ago, Busjack said: WTF is going on? Sun-Times: "A group of adolescents, including an 11-year-old girl, is facing felony charges after they allegedly beat up a man on a CTA train earlier this month, police said. On July 8, the group — a 16-year-old boy, 15 year-old-girl, 14-year-old boy and 11-year-old girl — was on a[n Orange Line] train in the first block of West Congress Parkway {probably not, and isn't that Ida B. Wells Dr. at Congress Circle] when they began battering a 63-year-old man, according to Chicago police. They also took his belongings." Ea Rhe passenger got on at Library/State and Van Buren. He quickly figured out he chose the wrong car. He was going to attempt to get off at LaSalle but he accidentally bumped into one of the teens. They then proceeded to attack him. He was able to get off at Quincy, but so did the teens who continued the attack on the platform before fleeing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted July 17 Report Share Posted July 17 1 minute ago, artthouwill said: Rhe passenger got on at Library/State and Van Buren. He quickly figured out he chose the wrong car. He was going to attempt to get off at LaSalle but he accidentally bumped into one of the teens. They then proceeded to attack him. He was able to get off at Quincy, but so did the teens who continued the attack on the platform before fleeing. Makes more sense. I guess the cops don't know where the 200 block of S. Wells is. But the real question is "why is an 11 year old girl into train robbery?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strictures Posted July 17 Report Share Posted July 17 6 minutes ago, Busjack said: But the real question is "why is an 11 year old girl into train robbery?" Probably the sister of one of the criminals & she was just along for the ride! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted July 17 Report Share Posted July 17 1 hour ago, strictures said: Probably the sister of one of the criminals & she was just along for the ride! Depends on the meaning of "along for the ride." In that "... an 11-year-old girl, is facing felony charges ..." the police and state's attorney had cause that she was a participant, rather than an observer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon tahoeppv Posted July 17 Report Share Posted July 17 18 hours ago, Erin Mishkin Jr. said: yea because it's back in service now Dam time be flying I thought that body slam was back in 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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