The tip first. If you live in Chicago and use the “L,” you might be famliar with Ed Kinittel’s CTA map. I’m a big fan. But what you might not be familiar with is the Firefox search engine add-on, written by Clay Smith, which adds the map as a search option in the top-right browser search box. You can just type in “900 n michigan” and forget the “chicago, il.” I like it.
And the hassle. Why is script debugging a pain to enable/disable in IE? This is the kind of thing I want to enable/disable via a hotkey, or at least a button. Why has no one created an add-on for it?
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You allow me to work from home and avoid this mess. VPN, you are truly a great and wondrous technology.
By the way, did you know the CTA gives out late slips?!
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You think the El is a freak show? You haven’t seen the Moscow subway! (Well, neither have I, in person anyway.)
Check out these Moscow subway pictures. A sample:
See more. (via CTA Tattler)
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Credit (and more pics): Looper
Credit (and more pics): missjasmine
Oops, I mean “holiday train” and “holiday bus.” Predictably, people are whining in the comments at CTA Tattler. I’ve got a nice HOLIDAY gift for you folks: a refrigerator-sized box of Go Fuck Yourself. It’s free.
Wouldn’t want the city of Chicago to endorse a Christian religion. I mean, nativity scenes are okay, but not Christmas movies (more whiny fuckwads there).
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It’s quite common at the Belmont stop for people to get on the wrong train. The Red Line is always on the inside track, but the Brown and Purple Lines share the outside track. Usually, it’s a problem with Brown Line riders, whose train comes about 4x as often as the Purple Line. Being dumb Brown Line people (yes, I live off the Brown Line), they assume the train is theirs, not checking to see whether it’s a Purple.
Sometimes, however, it’s not sheer rider stupidity; sometimes the trains are actually mismarked. The operator puts the wrong sign up. Ridiculous, yes, but it happens.
Well, if you’re an avid CTA fan like me, you can always tell the train by the lights on the front. This was something I subconsciously realized a few years ago, always being able to pick out the northbound Purple by its two white lights, but there’s an actual system.
Of course, if you’re reading this post, and if you have any awareness of the lights, chances are you’re not going to get on the wrong train, anyhow.
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Validating once again that spellcheckers do not the English language written good make, the Trib reports today that the CTA must replace 3000 transit maps which have the Belmont stop labeled as “Bemont.” Not only is this monumentally retarded, of course, but for those not in Chicago, Belmont happens to be one of the most important hub stops in the city. (The Brown, Purple, and Red lines converge there.) Correction: The Blue Line Belmont stop was mislabeled. And I had a typo in this entry. Grrreat.
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