For years the red line was usually trash ridden, sticky, oftentimes lacking that fresh air odor! That is until the threats began. Since much of the purple line traffic is directed to the red line now, this crew was formed. The crew hits the incoming red line with trash bags and air freshener spray!
And, they're cleaning both the southbound and northbound red lines. Just wondering if this was done on our behalf or in response to the complaints from the suburban riders forced to ride it? As the supervisor told me a few weeks ago, suburbanites complain to the CTA more...
Broken tree limb on Howard - Maybe DevCorp should put up boxing bags on Howard so people needing to vent their frustrations physically could stop and throw a few punches at an inanimate object. As for aesthetic values, the boxing bag couldn't look any worse than the arse planters filled with trash and flattened flowers.
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Thanks for posting something positive about Rogers Park. We could all use a lot more good news.
Notice the beautiful new platforms taking form at Howard.
Watching the new stations going into place at Howard, Belmont, and Fullerton gives me great pleasure. It's worth the hassle and delays to see these nasty,inadequate old stations renovated.
Wilson next- some guys were surveying the station last year. These projects are usually a few years in the planning stage, and Wilson Ave will be a doozy, because of the bizarre configuration of the station, and the desire of the neighborhood to preserve the facade of the old station that was once upon a time very grand and beautiful.
I was at the Howard Station the other day, and I was impressed at the changes that are being made. It does seem to be taking a long time, but so far the results are worth it.
I hope that the CTA keeps on top of cleaning and maintenance when they are done. It would be a shame to put in so much money and effort, only to have people trash it as soon as it is finished.
I have always noticed that CTA does a much better job of keeping shiny new facilities clean than ratty old ones.
Maybe it's just a matter of managers and rank-and-file alike being completely demotivated by the decrepitude and ugliness of the old Howard station, and now that it's being renovated and already looks much better, it seems more worthwhile. I know that the Belmont station always looked just as bad and the feeling among the workers there was "aaahhhhhh, what's the use!"
The bad thing about agencies like CTA is that they are very bureacratic, which makes it a long stretch between planning, say, a renovation, and actually getting everything in line to do the reno. When the deal is planned, from that day forward only minimal maintenance is done, which means ten years of very bad maintenance till the project gets underway. Sometimes the gap is 20 years, which was the case with the Howard station. These station renos have been on the boards for a long, long time.
Actually, the youth crews weren't cleaning the station...they go in the train and pick up trash the slobs leave in the moving garbage can.
Weeks ago when they changed the purple line schedule the suburbanites were complaining - LOUDLY. They weren't pleased at sitting in fries, wing bones and beer cans. Most of us aren't.
At any rate, for the past few decades, crews like this could have existed to clean up after slobs. Now that the CTA is threatening fare hikes and cuts, they manage to fund cleaning? As the CTA manager said...the suburbanites complain more, they tend to get what they want.
We pay taxes and look down at Howard Street. The $5 hooker's back in the hood. She and her girlfriend and 4-5 young men were outside the station this morning smoking week. 'ewww, do you smell that smell'
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