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[artthouwill]

1 hour ago, strictures said:

The buses are finally gone from in front of the police stations.  Now if that fool Lightfoot would put the cops back in the districts & off of Michigan Ave., with their lights flashing all day, maybe crime in the neighborhoods would start to go down!

But then crime will come back downtown again.  While I understand the need to reduce crime in the neighborhoods, crime downtown affects the city's image worldwide,  which effects tourism,  and the ability to attract business.  That affects tax collections and other revenues and that adversely affects the city ecomony.

[BusHunter]

1 hour ago, artthouwill said:

But then crime will come back downtown again.  While I understand the need to reduce crime in the neighborhoods, crime downtown affects the city's image worldwide,  which effects tourism,  and the ability to attract business.  That affects tax collections and other revenues and that adversely affects the city ecomony.

Was reading an interesting story about San Diego. There they have cameras mounted to the streetlights keeping an eye on the street. So if a crime happens it's all on tape. In this age where the police are watched on camera. It's only fair the residents are watched as well. Maybe putting cameras around houses may be too much but around retail centers why not. Downtown has been spooked away and the only way to restore confidence is let them know someone is watching and has their back. 

[Shannoncvpi]

4 hours ago, strictures said:

The buses are finally gone from in front of the police stations.  Now if that fool Lightfoot would put the cops back in the districts & off of Michigan Ave., with their lights flashing all day, maybe crime in the neighborhoods would start to go down!

They definitely not finna do that the city don't give a dam about the hoods they only care about downtown & the northside they have 1 shooting they get scared ask for more police & they get it we can have 100 shootings ask for more officers & all we get its officers that wanna lock us up if we breath wrong but this is the goverment they only care about you if your rich & white 

[artthouwill]

18 minutes ago, Shannoncvpi said:

They definitely not finna do that the city don't give a dam about the hoods they only care about downtown & the northside they have 1 shooting they get scared ask for more police & they get it we can have 100 shootings ask for more officers & all we get its officers that wanna lock us up if we breath wrong but this is the goverment they only care about you if your rich & white 

I say get out of the hood.  If the hood doesn't care about the hood,  why should anyone else?  I know a lot of innocent people are seemingly stuck but the best chance of survival is out of the hood.  

[strictures]

10 hours ago, artthouwill said:

But then crime will come back downtown again.  While I understand the need to reduce crime in the neighborhoods, crime downtown affects the city's image worldwide,  which effects tourism,  and the ability to attract business.  That affects tax collections and other revenues and that adversely affects the city economy.

The extra cops downtown weren't there to prevent ordinary crime, they were there to prevent another round of looting. 

[Shannoncvpi]

9 hours ago, artthouwill said:

I say get out of the hood.  If the hood doesn't care about the hood,  why should anyone else?  I know a lot of innocent people are seemingly stuck but the best chance of survival is out of the hood.  

Yea that's why me & my girl saving for a house in Oak lawn I lived in the hood fight had shootouts in the hood but once I went to the military & came back I said I survived both wars I don't wanna die in the hood

[artthouwill]

Maybe CTA should donate 10 or 12 of the 6400s to the CPD and use those buses.  Im sure there are officers with a CDL.

[Shannoncvpi]

Got both my covid test back from the VA & Jewels both came back the same negative for the virus now I can go home & this is why wear my nike gloves when I'm on shift driving 

[BusHunter]

26 minutes ago, Shannoncvpi said:

Got both my covid test back from the VA & Jewels both came back back the same negative for the virus now I can go home & this is why wear my nike gloves when I'm on shift driving 

Good now you can get out of the car. It's getting cold to do that. I've slept in cars on road trips and it's not that comfortable. I was happy to see a hotel when I did.

[Shannoncvpi]

1 hour ago, BusHunter said:

Good now you can get out of the car. It's getting cold to do that. I've slept in cars on road trips and it's not that comfortable. I was happy to see a hotel when I did.

Ikr it wasn't I just did like I use to in the marines make it work the best way possible

[Shannoncvpi]

2 hours ago, BusHunter said:

Good now you can get out of the car. It's getting cold to do that. I've slept in cars on road trips and it's not that comfortable. I was happy to see a hotel when I did.

Glade to get back one house tonight after hearing my daughter crying wanting me 

[Shannoncvpi]

1748 got into a lil panel tear driver ripped the side open on a fire hydrant 12 got Harrison blocked due to a car accident bus driver tried to make the turn but couldn't

[artthouwill]

12 minutes ago, Shannoncvpi said:

1748 got into a lil panel twar driver ripped the side open on a fire hydrant 12 got Harrison blocked due to a car accident bus driver tried to make the turn but couldn't

Are you talking about 2 different accidents?  I don't understand how a bus can hit a fire hydrant unless its turning way too soon or running or jumping the curb.

[Shannoncvpi]

Its a car accident already 12 had it blocked so 1748 in the video tried to make the turn but ripped the panel on the hydrant 

[YoungBusLover]

54 minutes ago, Shannoncvpi said:

Its a car accident already 12 had it blocked so 1748 in the video tried to make the turn but ripped the panel on the hydrant 

That looks like a makeable turn if done correctly so that operator had to of been in a hurry to get out of the traffic jam. 

[Shannoncvpi]

5 hours ago, YoungBusLover said:

That looks like a makeable turn if done correctly so that operator had to of been in a hurry to get out of the traffic jam. 

It is a makeable turn I did it before when we still had 4031 & I did it in 1616 before 

[artthouwill]

23 minutes ago, Shannoncvpi said:

It is a makeable turn I did it before when we still had 4031 & I did it in 1616 before 

Wasn't a rookie driver?

[Shannoncvpi]

3 hours ago, artthouwill said:

Wasn't a rookie driver?

Not sure I didnt get out & look I was trying  go work on my other car & go enjoy getting back in the house with my girls after my test results came back

[YoungBusLover]

Now I've encountered a lot of things in my short career with the company but I've never seen a pole in the middle of the drivers seat of a bus holding up the ceiling panels. I can't make this stuff up, when I was about to do my pull out pre trip inspection I see that and I couldn't help but laugh. I mean look at this. 

[Shannoncvpi]

1 hour ago, YoungBusLover said:

Now I've encountered a lot of things in my short career with the company but I've never seen a pole in the middle of the drivers seat of a bus holding up the ceiling panels. I can't make this stuff up, when I was about to do my pull out pre trip inspection I see that and I couldn't help but laugh. I mean look at this. 

??? dam well 7952 needs to be over at ss or in the boneyard waiting for repairs 

[artthouwill]

1 hour ago, YoungBusLover said:

Now I've encountered a lot of things in my short career with the company but I've never seen a pole in the middle of the drivers seat of a bus holding up the ceiling panels. I can't make this stuff up, when I was about to do my pull out pre trip inspection I see that and I couldn't help but laugh. I mean look at this. 

Is this on purpose?  It doesnt look like an accident. Maybe this was done to make sure no one drives it.

  

[YoungBusLover]

1 hour ago, artthouwill said:

Is this on purpose?  It doesnt look like an accident. Maybe this was done to make sure no one drives it.

  

I don't think it was done on purpose because the sign out personnel wouldn't have given me the bus like that.Now she was just as shocked as I was when I told her about the mishap and she candidly gave me another bus afterwards which was speed demon #7931. I wish maintenance and sign out personnel were on the same page when it comes to stuff like this because had that been any other operator like a rookie they might have gotten themselves into a sticky situation. 

2 hours ago, Shannoncvpi said:

??? dam well 7952 needs to be over at ss or in the boneyard waiting for repairs 

If there was any room sure but 74th takes up so much room at the current state with all there buses at SS.

[Mr.NewFlyer1051]

1 hour ago, YoungBusLover said:

I don't think it was done on purpose because the sign out personnel wouldn't have given me the bus like that.Now she was just as shocked as I was when I told her about the mishap and she candidly gave me another bus afterwards which was speed demon #7931. I wish maintenance and sign out personnel were on the same page when it comes to stuff like this because had that been any other operator like a rookie they might have gotten themselves into a sticky situation. 

If there was any room sure but 74th takes up so much room at the current state with all there buses at SS.

damn 74th really has the most buses at SS? 

[Shannoncvpi]

2 hours ago, YoungBusLover said:

I don't think it was done on purpose because the sign out personnel wouldn't have given me the bus like that.Now she was just as shocked as I was when I told her about the mishap and she candidly gave me another bus afterwards which was speed demon #7931. I wish maintenance and sign out personnel were on the same page when it comes to stuff like this because had that been any other operator like a rookie they might have gotten themselves into a sticky situation. 

If there was any room sure but 74th takes up so much room at the current state with all there buses at SS.

Man 6 must just beat they buses down since they mostly got they buses taking up space there

[Erin Mishkin Jr.]

6 hours ago, YoungBusLover said:

Now I've encountered a lot of things in my short career with the company but I've never seen a pole in the middle of the drivers seat of a bus holding up the ceiling panels. I can't make this stuff up, when I was about to do my pull out pre trip inspection I see that and I couldn't help but laugh. I mean look at this. 

Now no one can drive that bus, I wonder how they even got that there in the first place looool now one more thing I notice that no one else noticed there was no seatbelt buckle thing and buses need those seatbelt buckles so the drivers are safe with their seatbelts