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current commute status: train line shut down, had to take the bus all the way to the next nearest train line and be like 20 min late, at least I had a good seat on that bus.
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just don't live somewhere where the majority of cyclists on the road have DUIs, problem solved.
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Nov 19, 2015 16:46
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rad theyre in the middle of adding 4G to the subway tunnels in chicago this is way better than infrastructure improvements
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Nov 19, 2015 20:33
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the weird thing about chicago having contactless is that the company that does it somehow managed to do a thing in their mobile app that lets you purchase and use commuter rail tickets from the app. going to laugh when some suburbanite gets in a fight with a ticket checker when they try to smugly purchase a rail ticket on the train they're on to evade the $3 'didn't buy a ticket at the station' surcharge and it doesn't work because Ogilvie/Union have lovely reception.
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Nov 30, 2015 02:04
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i like how chicago will charge you extra if and only if you are leaving O'Hare on the Blue line, or if you're going to/from the bears game from the commuter rail station
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Nov 30, 2015 17:41
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yeah seriously if the train headway is going to be more than 30 min at 3 AM why even run a loving train then
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Nov 30, 2015 20:11
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one of the nice things about monthly rail pass is when ur downtown going home and you already went through the turnstile before figuring out that train is hosed you can be like later suckas i could check citymapper if i wasnt a lazy poo poo also apparently its common practice for homeless people to ask passholders to rescan their transit cards on the bus for them because the pass 'resets' 15 minutes after you use it.
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Nov 30, 2015 20:52
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minivanmegafun posted:they shut down the south side of the red line in Chicago for a year but only black people live there so it was ok. they didn't even add stations or extend the line well it helps that the north side has extra tracks for a line that only runs on them during rush hours, but it was pretty funny that the yellow line was shutdown for half a year because a construction crew hosed up an enbankment
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Jan 17, 2016 20:58
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minivanmegafun posted:I don't get why the yellow line is in the CTA's wheelhouse and hasn't been punted to Metra access to the heavy maintenance yard honestly. part of the huge problem was that they couldnt deliver rail cars over there for scheduled maintenance the metra electric schedules are really confusing and dumb because later at night they just have trains go back and forth on the branch lines and you have to transfer to get back to millenium
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Jan 18, 2016 03:41
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I use citynapper, its pretty nice depending on which city you live in. In London apparently the app can even recommend what part of the tube platform you should get on at.
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Jan 20, 2016 14:40
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minivanmegafun posted:interlocking switches and signals in the Loop are hosed up. my train is standing in a station a couple stops outside lol im really glad i came into work a little early today and missed that crazy poo poo by an hour and yeah they finally removed a stop on the loop it doesn't need loving 8 or 9 or whatever
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Jan 21, 2016 21:25
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minivanmegafun posted:dnainfo made a thing its me im the weirdo who prefers sitting uncomfortably on top of the little standing table in the operator area of the red line car for the added privacy
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Feb 10, 2016 04:27
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on the topic of 24 hour transit, that actually got me in trouble recently. im so used to blackout me stumbling onto a bus or train and knowing how to get home back in chicago, but im currently in san antonio and decided to go to a pool party/bbq over in austin. long story short blackout me couldnt change back into street clothes because the party got shut down so without phone/wallet I stumbled onto the metrotrain and ended up in Leander. By the time I sobered up I was trying to get back to Austin and sure enough the local cops threw my rear end into wilco county jail. gently caress wilco county
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Jun 20, 2016 23:06
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Jimmy Carter posted:hi my favorite transit-anger: Austin Light Rail so basically it was a combo of: - me shirtless (also no id no phone) - I didnt know where the gently caress I was (I remember blackout me getting on the train, but since I didn't have a phone I had no idea where I was) - I'm not from 'round here that was enough sass points for the local cop to toss me in jail. the funny part is that if i walked 30 minutes down the toll road I would have ended up in travis county where travis county sheriffs or round rock pd would have actually tried to help me
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Jun 22, 2016 10:02
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I guess that's true, I mean I am white. the best part about jail was the clearly manic dude who hit his g/f getting upset when they wouldn't tell him right away what he was charged with
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Jun 22, 2016 10:23
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going to meet a friend way out in the burbs and it was nice that I can take a bike share to the train, to an express bus. you better believe he's driving me back to the train station tho
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Aug 11, 2016 23:15
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Bloody posted:"green spaces in a city" is an oxymoron outside of parks. random-rear end strips of grass and planters and whatever are completely pointless garbage haha like the 606 in chicago, its a cool place to go up and loiter on tho
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Nov 7, 2016 20:45
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chicagos bus transit actually gets used since every line runs predictably (yay grid) and high availability (in populated areas of the north side lol). they actually did install user-viewable gps and use the data to adjust routes and schedules seasonally or for special events, and to try to address bunching but good luck with that. i think it even got them to start seriously considering BRT, although the implementations so far have been lovely (Loop Link) to mediocre (Jeffry Jump) at best. hopefully the Ashland BRT will be less lovely, they're promising limited stops, signal priority and paying before boarding
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