I used CTA more than I have in a long time this week and it was amazingly efficient and even clean. This isn’t to say CTA doesn’t have a ton of problems, but I have to give CTA credit for making getting around the City a great experience.
Call It A Comeback
I used CTA more than I have in a long time this week and it was amazingly efficient and even clean. This isn’t to say CTA doesn’t have a ton of problems, but I have to give CTA credit for making getting around the City a great experience.
I keep forgetting with all the track-repair delay issues how much cleaner the cars are than they were a year ago.
I get your point–and our transit system’s certainly better than St. Louis’s–but trust me: if you commuted via CTA every day, you wouldn’t be so pleased. It may be clean these days, but overall the system’s deterioration in the sixteen years I’ve lived here has been marked, with the past four or so being the worst. It’s underfunded, poorly managed, and deeply frustrating, and its deterioration is one of the biggest black marks on Daley’s record.
New York and London, for example, both have their transit problems, but their systems are vastly more extensive and useful and reliable than ours. I’m committed enough to the idea of public transit that I still use the CTA every day, despite the fact that its failures drove my wife to buy a car last year, but it should be much better than it is.