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• Can the CTA afford to buy a vowel?

  
  RedEye — Authority: 626
  "Going Public" was riding the Blue Line train to Jefferson Park this morning and noticed this sign. Can you guess whats wrong with this message? Find out after the jump. A vowel is missing from "assault" and "employee." In the afternoon, "GP" was riding the Green Line to Clark/Lake and noticed this ...
  17 hours ago

• Gov. Quinn to CTA Riders: Lower Fares More Important than Useful Service

  
  CHICAGO CARLESS — Authority: 403
  ( Graphic: Illinois Governor Pat Quinn’s 2010 CTA transit map?) I guess it must be something in the water. But as usual, another Illinois politician has decided that Chicagoans would rather have lower fares than useful transit service. Yesterday in Crain’s, Greg Hinz reported that Illinois Governor Pat Quinn ...
  19 hours ago

• CTA rider: Beware the wet spots

  
  RedEye — Authority: 626
  Annette Love wrote to "Going Public" with a complaint about "wet spots" on a CTA platform. "Someone needs to remind CTA now the temperature will be dropping even more.  I ride the Red Line from 95th Street to the Blue Line at the Jefferson Park station. My concern on the 95th Street platform as late as two weeks ...
  1 day ago

• CTA rider: Belmont art not worth the cost

  
  RedEye — Authority: 626
  Danny Miller wrote to "Going Public" with a complaint about the new Belmont "L" station. "This station is currently in the process of remodeling and expansion, which is a nice change. However, they have decorated the station with multiple tile cartoon-ish mosaics. Each mosaic depicts three faces (Red, Purple, and ...
  1 day ago

• CTA express buses arent that much faster

  
  RedEye — Authority: 626
  "X" may mark the spot for elimination. The CTA board is expected to vote Thursday on proposed fare hikes and service cuts including the cancellation of nine express bus routes. The nine routes up for termination are: Nos. X3-King-Drive; X4-Cottage-Grove; X9-Ashland; X20-Washington-Madison; X49-Western; ...
  2 days ago

• CTA: Need for defibrillators not seen

  
  Chicago Breaking News — Authority: 164
  Defibrillators would not have helped any of the 176 CTA passengers complaining of chest pains in the last two years, an analysis by the transit agency found. Nonetheless, CTA officials still are interested in acquiring the heart-shocking devices if outside funding can be identified. It would cost $5 million to $5.5 ...
  2 days ago

• The Glide Path Option

  
  The Big Picture — Authority: 150
  The Glide Path Option November 6, 2009 By John Mauldin The Present Contains All Possible Futures The Ugly Unemployment Numbers Argentinian Disease The Austrian Solution The Eastern European Solution Japanese Disease The Glide Path Option Philadelphia, Orlando, and Phoenix ...
  5 days ago

• CTA advertisement: "Less Than Perfect"

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 646
  [Chicago Filter] Does anyone know anything about the "Less Than Perfect" ads running on the CTA? I would love to know the origin of the ads that have been showing up on the trains recently. Theyre all black with plain text, and say things like: "The guy who forgot to shower this morning. Again." "The ...
  5 days ago

• CTA rider: This is whats wrong with the Blue Line

  
  RedEye — Authority: 626
  Brad Collins, 53,  of Edgewater, wrote to "Going Public" with complaints about the Blue Line. Heres the CTA response to why there are UIC trains . Heres the CTA response on volume of its announcements . Collins letter continues after the jump. "A couple of comments on the Blue Line. Why does the CTA run trains ...
  5 days ago

• CTA Lead List Basics

  
  Hedge Fund Law Blog — Authority: 127
  By Bart Mallon, Esq. (www.mallonpc.com) “Purchased Lead Lists and How to Use Them” A good resource for CTAs that are actively trying to raise money are lead lists – lists of names and contact information of potential future clients or investors.  This overview is for the CTA Expo 2009 program entitled ...
  6 days ago

• Estate of man struck and killed by bus suing CTA and driver

  
  Chicago Bar-tender — Authority: 608
  The estate of a man struck and killed by a CTA bus is suing the CTA and the bus driver. According to the complaint, on September 17, 2009, Donald Hall was operating a CTA bus near the southeast corner of Jeffrey Boulevard and 95th Street when he "failed to observe [Michael C. Payne], a disabled man approaching ...
  6 days ago

• Whats up with this CTA turnstile?

  
  RedEye — Authority: 626
  Ryan Kiefer wrote to "Going Public" about a change with the Chicago Card turnstiles. Anyone else noticing this at their station? His photo is below. "This is the turnstiles at Midway. The Chicago Card-only lane used to be second to the right, just next to the handicapped turnstile. Now its a regular Chicago+transit ...
  6 days ago

• What do you with your RedEye, once youre done reading it?

  
  RedEye — Authority: 626
  poll by twiigs.com By the time I get to my bus stop every morning, all the RedEye boxes inmy area are empty. But since Im a smart "home delivery" reader, Imthe only one on the bus with a paper. The other RedEye-less ridersglance at my paper jealously. So heres the dilemma. Part of me wants to leave the paper ...
  6 days ago

• Briefing “ACP Rural Development: why Media matters?”: interviews of participants

  
  Brussels Development Briefings — Authority: 103
  Mr Kole Odutola is teacher at the University of Florida. He emphasizes the need to concentrate the attention of the media on the people working in the agricultural area as they need not only mainstreaming but also support for growth. Professor Odutola questions whether the causes of the weak relationship farmers-media ...
  6 days ago

• CTA rider: Problems with train doors

  
  RedEye — Authority: 626
  Stephanie Rivera wrote to "Going Public" about two bad train experiences in the wake of the stroller incident on the Red Line . "I have two counterexamples to the CTAs vociferous chants of the train cant move if the doors are open. No. 1 is similar to the stroller story. I was running to catch a train and got ...
  6 days ago

• Union: Stroller is focus of CTA investigation

  
  Chicago Breaking News — Authority: 164
  A stroller believed to have been involved in an incident on the CTA Red Line on Monday evening could play a key role in determining whether a train operator left the Morse station with a toddler in the stroller caught in the doors, the drivers union said. The childs mother, Ebere Ozonwu, has told police the train ...
  1 week ago

• CTA performers, Idol style

  
  RedEye — Authority: 626
  At the Jackson stop on the Blue Line on Tuesday around 9 p.m., "GP" spotted performer Anthony Berry, who has a penchant for Oldies. His picture is below. Spot a street performer youd like "GP" to spotlight? Send an e-mail to tswartz@tribune.com with details. Heres photos of other CTA performers.
  1 week ago

• CTA rider: Door closed on my bag

  
  RedEye — Authority: 626
  Tonya Tibbs wrote to "Going Public" about a bad train experience in the wake of the stroller incident on the Red Line . Her letter continues after the jump. "I just read the article in this mornings RedEye, The Train Took My Baby, and was very disturbed. Last Wednesday I had a slightly similar experience, ...
  1 week ago

• Rider: CTA should change stroller rules

  
  RedEye — Authority: 626
  Li Wright wrote to the CTA and cced "Going Public" with the hope that the CTA will change its rules regarding strollers in the wake of the incident on the Red Line . "Maybe, just maybe, CTA will look at its policy concerning baby strollers on the buses and trains. Ive seen near catastrophes because the mom (or ...
  1 week ago

• CTA rider: My bag got caught in train doors

  
  RedEye — Authority: 626
  A McKinley Park rider wrote to the CTA and cced "Going Public" in the wake of the stroller incident on the Red Line . "Red Line mystery?! More like CTA mistake! It disgusts me to read the denial from CTA representatives regarding the stroller incident on the Red Line. They are practically suggesting that the ...
  1 week ago

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