Your city's rail system. Ridership, expansions, pictures! (Atlanta, transportation, population)
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The Long island railroad will be making a stop in Grand central station in about 3 years. The 2nd Ave subway line is being built too, but I think that will be about 5 years.
You're a lot more optimistic than MTA. Try 15 years for 2nd Av (just the first phase) and 8-10 yrs for east side access for LIRR. And that's if the
projects don't encounter additional delays along the way.
Also, where are you located? It would be really nice to KNOW WHERE YOU ARE. Ridership at more than half a million is quite high (and to be honest, doubtful unless you are simply lying, which might be the case since you are so vague). So, it would help if you'd be less ambiguous about the statistics that you're quoting which have no source WHATSOEVER.
I apologize if I'm ignorant of the acronyms for your city or the transit system in general but you have to realize you're talking to a BROAD audience here and not someone in in your circle of friends, or someone familiar with your particular city.
Please don't assume that everyone on this forum KNOWS WHAT YOU'RE THINKING or UNDERSTANDS EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU.
Please COMMUNICATE.
Last edited by nightmareb4xmas; 10-14-2009 at 09:23 PM..
Also, where are you located? It would be really nice to KNOW WHERE YOU ARE. Ridership at more than half a million is quite high (and to be honest, doubtful unless you are simply lying, which might be the case since you are so vague). So, it would help if you'd be less ambiguous about the statistics that you're quoting which have no source WHATSOEVER.
I apologize if I'm ignorant of the acronyms for your city or the transit system in general but you have to realize you're talking to a BROAD audience here and not someone in in your circle of friends, or someone familiar with your particular city.
Please don't assume that everyone on this forum KNOWS WHAT YOU'RE THINKING or UNDERSTANDS EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU.
Please COMMUNICATE.
CTA is Chicago....if you would of read the whole thread you would of realized that. The poster was clearly responding to the pictures posted by Venom in which they stated CTA was Chicago. Please READ.
Also, where are you located? It would be really nice to KNOW WHERE YOU ARE. Ridership at more than half a million is quite high (and to be honest, doubtful unless you are simply lying, which might be the case since you are so vague). So, it would help if you'd be less ambiguous about the statistics that you're quoting which have no source WHATSOEVER.
I apologize if I'm ignorant of the acronyms for your city or the transit system in general but you have to realize you're talking to a BROAD audience here and not someone in in your circle of friends, or someone familiar with your particular city.
Please don't assume that everyone on this forum KNOWS WHAT YOU'RE THINKING or UNDERSTANDS EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU.
Please COMMUNICATE.
Haha, this is not something worth having a fit about, but if you're honestly interested in the Chicago Transit Authority "L" ridership, commonly known as "L" because many of the rails are elevated (P.S. Chicago is a large city in the Midwest, state of Illinois, USA ... is that any clearer??) ... here's some reports. Deprecated Browser Error
Haha, this is not something worth having a fit about, but if you're honestly interested in the Chicago Transit Authority "L" ridership, commonly known as "L" because many of the rails are elevated (P.S. Chicago is a large city in the Midwest, state of Illinois, USA ... is that any clearer??) ... here's some reports. Deprecated Browser Error
in the meantime, you should get over yourself!
We should give him a break...it WAS his second post after all. But really, nightmareb4xmas, you could have done a quick search for CTA and found out the answers to your questions without making a scene about it. Transit system acronyms are commonly used on this site, especially in transit threads.
Los Angeles County Metrpolitan Transit Authority "Metro", a growing rail system with a LOT of work to go to catch up. Not bad for all being built from 1990-2009.
Red Line/Pink Line Subway: Daily ridership of 158,305
Light Rail: Blue Line (Daily ridership 80,000), Green Line (Daily ridership 40,000), and Gold Line (Daily ridership 24,000)*
*= The Gold Line has a six mile extension into East L.A. opening Nov. 14, adding an expected 15,000-20,000 daily riders. East L.A. has had high bus utilization and needs this line.
Under construction: EXPO Line, from downtown to Culver City by 2011, and to Santa Monica by 2015.
Also, where are you located? It would be really nice to KNOW WHERE YOU ARE. Ridership at more than half a million is quite high (and to be honest, doubtful unless you are simply lying, which might be the case since you are so vague). So, it would help if you'd be less ambiguous about the statistics that you're quoting which have no source WHATSOEVER.
I apologize if I'm ignorant of the acronyms for your city or the transit system in general but you have to realize you're talking to a BROAD audience here and not someone in in your circle of friends, or someone familiar with your particular city.
Please don't assume that everyone on this forum KNOWS WHAT YOU'RE THINKING or UNDERSTANDS EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU.
Please COMMUNICATE.
WHOA tHeRe buddy. MOSTpeople here know WHAT the CtA IS. If you are UNFAMILIAR with the cTa, you could take 5 seconds to LOOK IT UP.
RESEARCH THEN COMMUNICATE
Here's a map of the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority) For a more detailed map, click here
And here's a map of the ultimate build-out of the system, which in my opinion would put it on-par with New York City...yes, I am serious.
I recently read something about the transit system that Detroit used to have (i'm from MI) and how it was bought out from the city by a conglomerate of tire manufacturers (or something like that.) I just tried to look the article back up but couldn't find it, but here's another website I found that looks interesting... DETROIT TRANSIT HISTORY.info: The DSR Years
To go back to the article I referred to earlier, well, supposedly when Detroit was still a huge city back in the 50's they had a pretty nice public transit system but over time as the big 3 became more and more popular, they were so well entrenched into the city that they had the pull to buy out mass transit and prettymuch leave no option for people to do anything but drive their big cars around. Go figure eh?
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The poster was clearly responding to the pictures posted by Venom in which they stated CTA was Chicago. Please READ. 
