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Bill, Apparently you missed my comments on March 27th. The schedules you refer to just confirm my analysis. It looks like we'll never know why the CTA...
Hi List; This afternoon between 4:30 and 5:00 I plan to board a northbound Purple line train [CCW BTW] at LaSalle and Van Buren for Howard St. I'll post when I...
Sarcasm aside, what matters is a change in focus to the customer. Hide the delay with re-scheduling and compatible frequencies to avoid the annoyance of a wait...
Man, are you the optimist! It's like you're thinking the trains will approach time points on time. But if arrival of trains is essentially random, there's no...
Maybe you can't say exactly when a train or bus will reach a given point; but you certainly can anticipate the probable arrival within a minute. Scheduling...
OK, so do the math. If you can determine how much variance there is in actual practice, you could determine whether it makes sense to reschedule the trains on...
Hi All; I boarded a Purple line train at approx. 4:51 this afternoon at the LaSalle and Van Buren station. BTW this train was immediately preceded by a Brown...
Once upon a time CTA did tweak schedules for the mini peaks in ridership demand. The more riders in comparison between one train and another results in more...
Today, I took a Milwaukee North train from Western. I arrived a little early, so I watched a Milwaukee west or NC train pulling through. If you're standing at...
It's NOT normal in the sense of being acceptable for a mainline track; but it can happen. I've seen it too often. Gravity can be a friend; but I wouldn't...
Thanks. Looking back at what I wrote, I think I actually described it incorrectly. It looked to me like the joint-end of the 2nd section of rail (in...
I recall reading years ago when the starting lites at Howard were automated by havng the tape machine tn them on at precise intervals that one of the things...
Bouncing joints are not at all unusual in track that has been there a while. This is not "monolith" construction by any means. As time goes on, ballast is...
Has anyone contacted Metra about this? It is not the most immediate emergency but it does sound a bit abnormal for passenger tracks. It is a bit hard to get a...
Interesting point re: starters. A definite "art" in making allowances for the human factor. I wonder who's bright idea the clock was. While being a numbers...
Maybe you could make the suggestion (since you thought of it first) that a hotline be established or expanded to handle such observations, much like the...
There are crossing signals and such with emergency phone numbers, but if you are nowhere near one it is a bit of a problem. It is something a bit out of the...
Harvey: It simply is not wise to be close to any fast moving train. I worked Rondout years ago and can remember an air hose flying off the westbound PM Hi....
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