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Off peak, though, you may have to wait upwards of 20 minutes for a CTA train.
Maybe past 11:00pm on a weekday. During the day they run 4-7 minutes apart during the rush and 11 or so minutes apart on average...NYC's trains don't run 2 minutes apart. Maybe during rush hour they're 4-7 minutes apart, but 2 minutes apart would just cause massive delays and back ups. Especially since so many trains travel through the same tunnels...
Maybe past 10:00pm or 11:00pm on a weekday. During the day they run 4-7 or 11 or so minutes apart on average...NYC's trains don't run 2 minutes apart. Maybe during rush hour they're 4-7 minutes apart, but 2 minutes apart would just cause massive delays and back ups. Especially since so many trains travel through the same tunnels...
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In Chicago, you usually wait 20-30 minutes for trains. Daley cut the train service, because he wants to subsidize downtown interests through TIF funding.
That's nothing compared to the havoc Daley caused with the buses. Daley shut down something like 40% of the bus lines. Chicago becomes more suburban by the day, but at least Daley is leaving, so there's hope.
For once I will agree with Ohio248. The CTA has become difficult to ride with. I haven't noticed any bus issues (I don't ride them really), but the trains run much slower except during rush hour.
In Chicago, you usually wait 20-30 minutes for trains. Daley cut the train service, because he wants to subsidize downtown interests through TIF funding.
That's nothing compared to the havoc Daley caused with the buses. Daley shut down something like 40% of the bus lines. Chicago becomes more suburban by the day, but at least Daley is leaving, so there's hope.
For once I will agree with Ohio248. The CTA has become difficult to ride with. I haven't noticed any bus issues (I don't ride them really), but the trains run much slower except during rush hour.
The buses have gotten more packed for sure, though not terrible. Blue line trains are still pretty frequent, every few minutes during rush hour but the slow zone between Logan Square and California kind of sucks. A lot better than a few years ago when the entire Dearborn St subway was a slow zone...ugh.
Yeah the CTA is a mess and it's not going to get better since they keep diverting repair money into operations. One of these days something really bad is going to happen. The blue line fire should have been a wake-up-call that you can't neglect track maintenance.
The buses have gotten more packed for sure, though not terrible. Blue line trains are still pretty frequent, every few minutes during rush hour but the slow zone between Logan Square and California kind of sucks. A lot better than a few years ago when the entire Dearborn St subway was a slow zone...ugh.
Yeah the CTA is a mess and it's not going to get better since they keep diverting repair money into operations. One of these days something really bad is going to happen. The blue line fire should have been a wake-up-call that you can't neglect track maintenance.
Yeah...when I took the Green Line back from the Museum, I could have walked faster at some points haha. Wasn't that fire on the red line? Not that it matters haha.
Yeah...when I took the Green Line back from the Museum, I could have walked faster at some points haha. Wasn't that fire on the red line? Not that it matters haha.
Nope blue line just north of Clark & Lake. I remember that day well b/c I was on the train just behind that one fortunately. The commute home was a pain, but at least I wasn't crawling through a smoke-filled tunnel with no visibility.
After that fire for a few months there was a 6mph slow zone through most of the Dearborn St. subway until they started replacing the ties.
It all really depends. Given the budget and safety situation with metro, performance has declined. But I'll put it like this, during rush hour trains will run every 2-5 minutes. Mid-day: 5-8 minutes. Nights 6-12 minutes. Late nights (12-3am Fri and Sat) 12-20 minutes. Sat and Sun: 6-12 minutes.
DC metro is pretty efficient during rush hour which is a given. It's usually 6 minutes between trains but they seem to run sooner than that. But outside of rush hour...wait for 12 minutes unless you need to travel somewhere on the green/yellow line before it splits off at Le'Enfant or blue/orange line before it splits off at Stadium-Armory
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through most of the Dearborn St. subway until they started replacing the ties.
