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18214 EDWARD ROBERT SIROVY
oldsoundguy Send Email
Dec 1, 2004
10:22 am
No Headline Daily Herald Reports Posted 11/30/2004 Name-calling is offensive I take offense to being called ignorant by Marie Harris ("After the election,...
18215 EDWARD ROBERT SIROVY
oldsoundguy Send Email
Dec 1, 2004
11:06 am
A few years back, Metra raised fares about 5% to provide more money for expansion. Did not hurt ridership and since then, about $135 million has been raised. A...
18216 EDWARD ROBERT SIROVY
oldsoundguy Send Email
Dec 1, 2004
11:26 am
The CTA should consider all Rapid Transit routes as baseline. The last thing you shut down on the whole system. ... From: eddiethe2nd To:...
18217 timothius2002 Send Email Dec 1, 2004
12:15 pm
OK, so if suburban Cook wants more public tranist, let them come up with a concrete plan, along with the budget necessary to operate that service, and lobby...
18218 timothius2002 Send Email Dec 1, 2004
12:39 pm
From: "EDWARD ROBERT SIROVY" <esirovy@...> Reply-To: CHICAGOTRANSIT@yahoogroups.com Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 05:05:00 -0600 To:...
18219 Tony Coppoletta
t3rdrail Send Email
Dec 1, 2004
1:26 pm
I really hope CTA doesn't decide to follow suit, but a few days ago, the new "Rules of Conduct" proposal was published in New York ...
18220 timothius2002 Send Email Dec 1, 2004
2:51 pm
As with all things, you can have all the reasonable or hyper rules, regulations, and laws that you want. Ultimately, a prudential decision needs to made as to...
18221 ajk100@...
ajkristopans Send Email
Dec 1, 2004
7:07 pm
I think within a half mile walking distance is a reasonable goal (a mile grid in other words). But if at all possible a mile grid both NS and EW, if the street...
18222 Adam H. Kerman
ahk@... Send Email
Dec 1, 2004
7:14 pm
... I did. ... It's not a particularly effective form of influence. Do something now: Write a letter to Daley holding him responsible for the shennanigans....
18223 Adam H. Kerman
ahk@... Send Email
Dec 1, 2004
7:21 pm
... The Dan Ryan "L" stations are generally at 1-mile intervals. Nearby riders within walking distance generally have greater than 1/2 mile walk, given that ...
18224 Tony Coppoletta
t3rdrail Send Email
Dec 1, 2004
7:29 pm
Yep. Caught on at Midway too, and presumably does at other terminals if it's not practice for a train to be immediately started up and all the doors opened. ...
18225 ibilldavis@...
ibilldavis Send Email
Dec 1, 2004
11:17 pm
Tony, I know you are being sarcastic. I am not happy. I would bed happy if cta would have received their proper funding from the state and city. I would also...
18226 Tony Coppoletta
t3rdrail Send Email
Dec 1, 2004
11:56 pm
Well, I suppose if you wanted a transit system that is inefficient, too expensive operationally, unfriendly to urban lifestyles, those things might be...
18227 timothius2002 Send Email Dec 2, 2004
12:10 am
... The hardest part about hourly headways is connections. If one has to transfer to a second or third route which is also on a hourly headway, then it can be...
18228 Adam H. Kerman
ahk@... Send Email
Dec 2, 2004
12:16 am
... Conductors were a novelty? No, those guys did actual work. CTA isn't Lindenwold. I don't feel it was adequately redesigned for one man operation, and I...
18229 timothius2002 Send Email Dec 2, 2004
12:16 am
It's probably a dumb "zero tolerance policy" with the officers being told to give no warnings and use no discretion. I suppose they at least can't be accused...
18230 timothius2002 Send Email Dec 2, 2004
12:22 am
... What really never made any sense was designing the 3200's for one man right handed operation to be used with left hand platforms on the Midway line....
18231 ibilldavis@...
ibilldavis Send Email
Dec 2, 2004
12:36 am
OK I take what I say. Bikes should be totatlly banned from our trains. They are dangerous, and someone is going to get if no one has already, seriously hurt....
18232 ibilldavis@...
ibilldavis Send Email
Dec 2, 2004
12:39 am
Adam Kerman is cool!...
18233 Barry G. Smith
kneesox43 Send Email
Dec 2, 2004
12:59 am
Hi Y'All, Here in DC, all the Metrorail cars have an arrangement with a swinging door that can be locked across the aisle creating a full-width cab wih door...
18234 Adam H. Kerman
ahk@... Send Email
Dec 2, 2004
1:34 am
... Same as CTA 3200's. I was just saying it should have been some sort of pocket door (I suppose with another shield over the motorman's controls) so any cab ...
18235 Barry G. Smith
kneesox43 Send Email
Dec 2, 2004
1:49 am
Hi Y'All, No, all operating controls on WMATA cars are on the right side only. Only the door controls are duplicated on the left side. In ATO mode the operator...
18236 timothius2002 Send Email Dec 2, 2004
2:00 am
... He has groupies! The Kerman Krowd!...
18237 ibilldavis@...
ibilldavis Send Email
Dec 2, 2004
2:43 am
Daley (R.Mayor of Chicago, to be renamed Daleysville) not only didn't do a damn thing about one man operation, he encoraged it. Daley said that "cta has lost...
18238 eric
vxla Send Email
Dec 2, 2004
6:34 am
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 17:16:54 -0600, ibilldavis@... proclaimed... ... Damn, get over it. Be happy that you still have a job and CTA hasn't moved to NPO...
18239 eric
vxla Send Email
Dec 2, 2004
6:41 am
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 20:43:33 -0600, ibilldavis@... proclaimed... ... Oh yea, that's a bad thing. Ya know, especially when half of the bus drivers ...
18240 EDWARD ROBERT SIROVY
oldsoundguy Send Email
Dec 2, 2004
7:05 am
Some (actually many) years ago, the CTA went on strike. A few trains ran with management at the controls. The cars were more packed then the Tokyo subway....
18241 EDWARD ROBERT SIROVY
oldsoundguy Send Email
Dec 2, 2004
7:27 am
The tracks are grade separated at this point. Getting a pickup up there took some doing. From the RailMishaps list. www.RAILChicago.com Man killed by Amtrak...
18242 EDWARD ROBERT SIROVY
oldsoundguy Send Email
Dec 2, 2004
7:56 am
Chicago Tribune: Santa gets the ax as CTA cancels holiday tradition http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-0412010098dec01,1,2005074.story Santa...
18243 Kevin
k_zolk Send Email
Dec 2, 2004
9:04 am
... I'd rather see a cop on every train. ... Agreed. Perhaps the same should be done to the state law makers who refused to give CTA more funding. ... Although...
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