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Notes on a Transit System: Deux

As the summer winds down (three more weeks!), it is time for another assessment of CTA logistics.
Extra Buses (or, Why it’s Better to Live on the North Side)
I concluded in the first installment that leapfrogging can be legitimate. On a busy bus route, a pack of buses showing up to a bus stop with lots [...]

Posted 09 August 2007 at 10:24 am •  Comments (1)
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Another Monday

Yesterday I was up early (hungry cats, an eastern exposure, and waking up around 7 every weekday morning make it difficult to sleep late), and decided to finally go get my bike from Hyde Park. I had locked it up to a signpost about three weeks ago, after moving out of the5509, and hadn’t really [...]

Posted 02 July 2007 at 10:14 am •  Comments (2)
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Notes on a Transit System

Without the luxury of a twelve minute Metra train ride like last summer, I’ve learned a few things about the Chicago Transit Authority.
Leapfrogging Can Be Legitimate
Since moving to Chicago, everyone I know, myself included, has griped about the CTA. Service is not frequent enough, nothing is on schedule, and it just takes too damn long [...]

Posted 20 June 2007 at 11:58 am •  Comments (3)
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