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Author:  Jaw Breaker [ Tue Mar 24, 2015 4:20 pm ]
Post subject:  The CTA
Still haven't started rebuilding the O'Hare escalator yet? (The one destroyed by the conductor who fell asleep.) It took a year to design and will take another year to build? WTF? Did they throw away the old plans? Maybe Chuy should investigate.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... story.html
Author:  bigfan [ Tue Mar 24, 2015 4:23 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The CTA
...and dont even think about privatizing it....because they do such a fine job....and have for years and years!
Author:  Crystal Lake Hoffy [ Tue Mar 24, 2015 10:30 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The CTA
I still don't understand why they put an escalator at the end of a train track.
Author:  sinicalypse [ Tue Mar 24, 2015 11:37 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The CTA
Crystal Lake Hoffy wrote:
I still don't understand why they put an escalator at the end of a train track.


well because if you've ever been to the o'hare station you kind of have to go up to get to the concourse level, or whatever level you wanna call it because IIRC the blue line entrance is kind of far off in a corner of o'hare or whatever... it takes a bit of a sojourn to get there.

no matter the aesthetic/practical merits of having an escalator go up there, it's pretty damn hard to do anything but put this one on the conductor who done goof'd when it came to the whole "stay on the tracks" part of the endeavor.
Author:  Curious Hair [ Tue Mar 24, 2015 11:59 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The CTA
The concourse to the station is in the basement as it is. The station itself is in the sub-basement.

Me, I give the CTA a shoutout for disproving Mitch Hedberg's adage that an escalator cannot break, it can only become stairs.
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