CTA 'L' - A Post-Pandemic Blue Line PM Rush Hour (Feb 2023)

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Жыл бұрын

This is a sequel to the video our good friend Josh recorded back in 2019, which can be found here: • CTA 'L' - Blue Line tr...
The CTA's Blue Line has been talked about a whole lot lately by many transit advocates across the city. In light of a pandemic and many issues the city and the CTA are facing, there have been a number of growing problems affecting our transit system in recent months. Two of those are ridership and staff shortages. Ridership is indeed increasing as people are coming back to using public transit. But due to staffing shortages caused by a city-mandated vaccine requirement for city workers and safety concerns, the whole rail and bus system has been deemed unreliable by the general public.
Currently across the 'L' network, the train schedules have been modified to "reflect" the current number of operators CTA has available. This was heavily suggested by a group by the name of "Commuters Take Action", which are known for calling out the CTA for "ghost trains" and "inaccurate train trackers". Their claim is because the trackers are programmed to display both scheduled and live runs. They claim the scheduled runs that aren't filled due to any sort of manpower absence are "ghost trains".
As a result, service has worsened rather than improved with trains scheduled to run every 10-12 minutes. Before this current schedule, which took effect October 23rd, 2022, trains on the Blue Line were scheduled to run about every 5 to 7 minutes. This "solution" has only worsened the situation because employee availability can vary day by day. This has left gaps between trains easily becoming a 15 to 20, even 30 minute wait in some cases, rather than a 10 minute with the previous schedule.
This video showcases the amounts of ridership and capacity issues on the Blue Line at Clark/Lake during the PM rush hour, under this current schedule. This was filmed on various dates during February 2023. Special thanks to Josh Burns for filming the entirety of this video!
We pray that with a new mayoral administration coming to city hall in May, the CTA will return to normalcy with being as busy and frequent of a system it was back in 2019!
Bonus clips at the beginning of the video show 2600 series work trains on the move at 18th and Polk on the Douglas branch, now with brand new work motor stripes.
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@nascarfan20105 Жыл бұрын

Now that is just ridiculous with how many people are waiting at C/L.

@ChicagolandTransit Жыл бұрын

It's the same thing at Washington/Dearborn. That's probably the very last chance to get on the train.

@peterjamesfoote3964 Жыл бұрын

I’m surprised there weren’t more heading South to Jackson to be guaranteed of getting on a train.

@ChicagolandTransit Жыл бұрын

@@peterjamesfoote3964 don't give them ideas lol

@izzylandyt Жыл бұрын

@@ChicagolandTransitgeez there too?!? Guess folks might have to take the Green line for now if they wanna go west

@ChicagolandTransit Жыл бұрын

@@izzylandyt all the passengers you see in this video are going towards the O'Hare branch

@brianmolina8818 8 ай бұрын

0:47 feels so weird to see a 2600 as a work car now

@jackchen7003 Жыл бұрын

Three years ago tomorrow - will be three years since the pandemic

@BroadwayLTDProductions 9 ай бұрын

Scamdemic*

@scythe7064 6 ай бұрын

@@BroadwayLTDProductions found the conspiracy idiot

@soldier3157 Ай бұрын

@@BroadwayLTDProductions?

@redlinedreamin 7 ай бұрын

Honestly the 2600 work cars have my favorite livery despite how simple it is

@picklerick_404 7 ай бұрын

Everyone crowding the ORD bound trains at Clark/Lake

@rchilde1 4 ай бұрын

THAT'S what we like to see, PACKED subway trains and platforms!!!

@chandelure102 Жыл бұрын

We got your back. No one has to be left alone to deal with the trolls.

@pantherbulb8 Жыл бұрын

Pov me trying to shove my way onto a red line train at Addison after a Cubs game 😞

@metrotren2915 5 ай бұрын

Buen video hay algunas lineas de metro 🚇 de Chicago 🏙️ que son subterraneas y otras que son todo el rato por la superficie, y mira cuando va por la superficie parece que sea un tren Cercanias, pero mira realmente es un metro 🚇 y mira cuando esta llegando a la ciudad 🏙️ va por encima de los puentes, por que son trenes 🚊 elevados, sigue así saludos 👋👋👋👋👋👋 y muchas gracias por compartir el video.

@izzylandyt Жыл бұрын

Red line has the same problem. Plus there’s the construction on North side of a new bypass for purple line.

@SeanMasterPlayzYT Жыл бұрын

that woman that got on that train 3273 before the doors closed she was trying to force herself into the train she was so desperate she couldn’t wait for the next train 😂😂

@a81517 5 ай бұрын

well the next train was in a while

@brucewilkinson8599 Жыл бұрын

Wow! Lots of full cars, and no ability for people to board a train in a reasonable amount of time at the Clark & Lake subway station.

@Bigtflies321 Жыл бұрын

saw a blind man get robbed here a few weeks ago. yikes.

@hallnall1667 Жыл бұрын

No you didn't, quit lying!

@Bigtflies321 Жыл бұрын

Yes I did. I’m still scarred from seeing that.

@jaemartin161 Жыл бұрын

I saw 6 2600s cars on running on the green line like a few weeks ago, it doesn’t even have candy stripes so I wonder, why is the 2600s n the green line and why is it running on green line?

@brianmolina8818 8 ай бұрын

probably those have been replaced by the 7000s and are now work cars?

@MsGrandunion Жыл бұрын

The new style trains have a different configuration. Instead of the "two by two" bus style seating, the seats are now long benches of four seats. And guess what, they make perfect beds for all the freeloading homeless riders. Some mornings I literally cannot get a seat, and there are only a dozen people in the car, but they are sleeping and taking up 4 seats each. Now that O'Hare is trying to block them from the airport, they have taken up ownership of the blue lines cars instead.

@captainkeyboard1007 9 ай бұрын

That sounds like things that happen in the New York City rapid transit [subway] system. I never knew that fare evasion happens on Chicago Transit Authority's buses and railcars. I thought that CTA is very strict on fare evasion attempts.