FUCK the CTA

on the news last night, Brian and i heard about CTA’s expansion project for the Brown Line.  they want the stations to be able to accommodate more cars per train, among other things, which i understand.  however, the way they plan to go about this is utterly ridiculous.  click the link above to learn what they’ll be doing to your nearest Brown Line platform.

what they don’t tell you on the site, is how long the stations will be shut down.  get this–Kimball, Kedzie, Francisco, and Rockwell (2 of which we live equidistant from) are going to be shut down for 8 months to a year.  i shit you not–one year.  and this isn’t just in the middle of the night or on just the weekends, either.  click Some CTA Brown Line Stations Set To Close to watch channel 2′s video, though it was only last night that they said which stations will close, seemingly, forever.  this is some kind of bullshit, let me tell you.

remember the good ole days when the lines weren’t color coded?  i mean, do they think we’re too stupid to figure out that the Ravenswood goes through the Ravenswood area?  or that the Englewood-Jackson Park goes to, well, Englewood or Jackson Park?  what about the Evanston Express?  i’ll give you three guesses to figure out where that line goes.

remember the A and B trains?  i miss them, too.  and you know, i liked tokens because you didn’t have to worry about them getting creased like fare cards.

why is it that the CTA finds new and improved ways to screw their riders?  and why do they treat us like we’re a bunch of idiots?  i say, FUCK the CTA.  but you know, they’ll always get the last say because we have no choice but to rely on them.  now, that’s some bullshit right there.