Thursday 11 May 2006

New, improved El cars coming

The Chicago Tribune reports today that the Chicago Transit Authority has agreed to buy 406 new El cars for the Blue and Pink lines. The cars will have aisle-facing seating rather than the mixed seating arrangement currently in use (see the Tribune graphic). This is a long-overdue improvement on the Blue line, whose trains go to O'Hare. Struggling with luggage on the current trains causes pain; the new arrangement will alleviate it.

The CTA expects the cars to roll by 2009, shortly after we have a new President (984 days from now).

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David Braverman, Thursday 11 May 2006 15:58:36 UTC

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Thursday 11 May 2006 16:14:58 UTC

Thanks, Trib, for comparing the existing Brown and Orange line layout to the approved Blue and Pink line layout. Talk about comparing oranges and... blues?

And thank YOU, CTA, for brand-spanking-new, customized blue line cars that apparently won't include anything resembling a luggage rack.

Anne

Thursday 11 May 2006 16:26:52 UTC

I think they're counting on the proposed high-speed link to Downtown solving that problem sometime in the 2010s. See http://www.oharedirect.org/express.html for one of the proposals. This assumes, of course, that the CTA has our best interests at heart. I mean, you wouldn't expect them to spend half a billion dollars without thinking it through, would you?

David

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