I’ve wondering whether the CTA had a backup plan in case disaster befell the current, summer-long weekend closure of half the Loop ‘L’. The answer, judging from this weekend’s seven-hour service meltdown caused by a cable fire, seems to be ‘No.’
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It’s really hard to try and prove a point about the worth of public transit when your local public-transit agency just keeps spitting in your face. Thanks to two badly staged ‘L’ renovation projects, There will be no CTA train service in the entire eastern half of downtown Chicago on most nights and weekends for the rest of 2008. Really?
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