Comments on: Buzzer in Chicago: Six hours, 10 trains, 11 trips—looping the loop in Chicago!

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Cta blue line train schedule — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:04:05 +0000

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By: The Buzzer blog » APTA Rail 2010: Four hours, three trains, two buses, one trolley - a multimodal tour of Vancouver!

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:00:55 +0000

[...] This multimodal tour is lovingly crafted by Tom Hickey, associate vice-president at the Houston transit authority and longtime transit planner. He’s done tours like this for the past three years at APTA’s rail conferences: last year, we did a six-hour train tour in Chicago! [...]

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By: Jhenifer Pabillano

Jhenifer Pabillano — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:12:47 +0000

Strannik: thanks for the clarifications!

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By: Strannik

Strannik — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:04:43 +0000

Pardon the necromancy, but as a Chicagoan, I have to point out two things:

1) The trains you rode on the South Shore Line aren’t typical South Shore Line trains – they are just the newer ones. Most of the time, NICTD runs the older single-level trains with more doors and bigger luggage racks

2) The line you called “Ravenswood Line” is actually Union Pacific North Line – Ravenswood Line is Brown Line’s original name.

Other than that, awesome post. Sounds like you and the rest of the group had a very interesting trip.

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By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:09:46 +0000

I recently traveled to Chicago at the end of May and the pictures you posted reminded me of my trip there. Some things I really liked about the Chicago Transit are that both the Red and Blue train lines run 24 hours a day (half hour service between 2am-5am). I also really liked how they offer tourist passes in 1, 3, and 5 day passes (I bought a 3 day pass for only $14).

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By: Jhenifer Pabillano

Jhenifer Pabillano — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:01:50 +0000

You know, I looked but didn’t see the SideTrack ads you talked about. Perhaps they’re further out in the subway tunnels — I was just moving around the downtown area really.

The people in the solid coloured shirts are our CTA tour guides. The CTA employees on the system usually wear emergency vests in neon yellow/orange with “CTA” on them. CTA’s company colour is that light blue though — and in fact, the blue rumble strips on their platform are done because that’s the CTA colour. They’re one of the few systems in North America that doesn’t have yellow or white rumble strips.

All CTA trains are air conditioned and I think most of the buses are too. Not sure about how the snow impacts service… I never asked!

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By: ;-)

;-) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:32:52 +0000

Did you see any of that “SideTrack” advertisement I was asking about?

After watching the videos, I started to notice the people with solid coloured shirts. Are those the conference participants or are they the transit staff uniforms?

Are all transit vehicles air conditioned? How does Chicago transit change when snow comes?

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By: Jhenifer Pabillano

Jhenifer Pabillano — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:30:41 +0000

OK, I’ll amend it. But now you have to tell me if you like Chicago’s trains.

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By: David

David — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:28:30 +0000

Jhenifer,

I don’t beleive you are right about London’s Mind the Gap. Mind the Gap is used where stations are built on a sharp curve, causing a gap between the platform edge and the door.

you are correct the lines were not built to a standard. The Subsurface lines were built to 7ft “broad-gauge” standard, then converted to standard gauge later. The deep tubes were built to two different diametres – the smaller diameter were enlarge in the 1920s to the tube deep-level “standard”.

At some stations where deep-level tube trains share the platform with the sub-surface trains, the platform height is a special high to allow passenger to step up from a tube train and down from a sub-surface train.

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