Chicago Transit Authority


So today I'm waiting for the bus to go to work outside the Metra train station as I do every morning. I watch as three of all the other route buses pass before mine finally shows up, and of course it's so packed that no one can fit. Do you think the CTA cares? HELL NO!!! They give the other bus routes that go by nice, extra long, brand new busses and we get this pathetic little crappy bus. Not to mention the other busses are practically empty. WHY YOU ASK? Because most of the commuters on this particular route come from the suburbs after taking the Metra commuter train, so they don't have to pay as much to ride the bus as the cost is partially offset by Metra. But being the ill-caring fiscally-inept loser the CTA is, they stuff all us "half-fares" in the crappiest bus they own. Yesterday I stood in the front stairs of the bus because there was no room in the aisle let alone an empty seat. Last week, I waited 30 minutes for it to arrive and the driver shot right past the stop because there was no more room! PATHETIC!!! And now they want to raise fares? I remember one time the bus engine started smoking and the driver just laughed because she overheated it. Everyone got trampled because someone yelled "FIRE" and it was so crowded. Some of these busses are in such poor condition they SHOULD BE ILLEGAL TO DRIVE... like the one we sometimes get that dies out at every stoplight. PIECE OF JUNK CTA, and I'm not even going to mention the drivers, like the one that stopped the bus and got out to go buy a newspaper WHILE WE ALL WAITED AND THEN HAD THE AUDACITY TO READ IT WHILE DRIVING. THIS BUS IS A LAWSUIT JUST WAITING TO HAPPEN, but I don't care because after 3 years of this crap, I've decided to walk. I'd rather get mugged by a street thug than get ripped-off by the CTA for the cost of bus-fare.


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