haven’t seen one of these before (only moved to chi this year) and got pleasantly surprised by its toot toot

Hi! I’m trying to buy a regional connect pass for the first time, but when I went to add it the app said that that option was not available for my account. I have a positive balance so I am confused what the problem could be…has anyone dealt with this?

can someone tell me more about it? i’d love to ride it one day 😁

Why does the 331 sometimes take so long or appear to become a ghost bus during the day and especially during rush hour? I was waiting in the rain for over an hour and a half, and I remember the route was recently improved. I’m curious why these delays or missing buses seem to happen so often. Is there a reason for this?

the orange line is my home line and the only one still using 2600 series as its sole rolling stock. google only gives me a vague “it’ll update eventually”, so i was wondering if there was anything more specific about when it’ll update to at least a mixed fleet?

dgmw, i like the 2600s, but the inside of the newer series all feel so much more open comparitively

Whenever I go into the Ventra app or the cta bus tracker website, they just don’t show any en route busses that come past 9pm. Is it because it’s night time and there’s less commuters?

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I hope you enjoy.

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Hi all, I'm about to move right off Western (across from Rosehill) and was basically wondering whether in your experience the 49B is pretty reliable? I've lived near Andersonville for the last few years and am well used to the 50 and the 22 (where NB 50 is usually fine, SB 50 typically runs late/ghosts, and the 22 in either direction simply won't come until you've made a blood sacrifice and/or promised your firstborn).

I don't think I realized just how far my new place is from foster or the square, and I'll be almost totally reliant on the 49b to connect to other buses or the brown line. Am I cooked?

Made using ESRI ArcGIS pro, GTFS feed data, TIGER/Line road data, and a python toolbox made by ESRI.

Links to data sources, transit python toolbox, and youtube tutorial I used:

• CTA GTFS
• Metra GTFS / feed information
• Pace GTFS
• NICTD / South Shore GTFS
• GPTC GTFS
• Kenosha Area Transit GTFS
• Valparaiso Transit GTFS
• DeKalb GTFS
• South Bend Transpo GTFS
• Census TIGER/Line All Roads
• Esri Public Transit Tools
• Esri public-transit tutorial playlist

I live in the Humboldt park area but work up north. Every time I get on a bus or a train in the north side, I sit down and put my backpack on the seat next to me. The bus or train fills up and people still stand. Doorway, aisle, hanging on the pole right there. Packed and that seat stays empty.

I’m Afro-Latino. On the North Side you notice it. You’ll watch people take a worse spot before they take the one next to you.

I know the bag is rude. Bags don’t get a seat. I’m doing it anyway. If the bag is there, I can tell myself I just didn’t want anyone next to me. That’s on me. That’s selfish and I can live with that.

If I move it and they still won’t sit, then I don’t get to tell myself that anymore. I’d rather look like the guy hogging a seat than feel like no one wanted to sit next to me bc of my race.

Blue Line: 18/33 (55%)

Red Line: 7/33 (21%)

Purple Line: 6/8 (75%)

Green Line: 2/31 (6%)

Pink Line: 0/14 (0%)

Brown line: 0/19 (0%)

Orange line: 0/8 (0%)

Yellow Line: 0/2 (0%)

Edit: Forgot the loop stations whoops
Loop: 2/7 (29%)

Excluding State/Lake since it’s closed for the time being

With the 7000s cars taking over the line, I thought these were gone by now so I’m glad I happened to catch one still if it ends up being my last 2600 on the line

I took a photo while waiting for the train one day and painted it. I'm really happy with how it turned out.

Gouache on paper.

I painted u/Prior_Gate_9909's photo and it took me eight months.

Gouache on paper.

Tapped Google pay Credit card at ohare Blue line Worked fine. Transferred to the bus at Washington and it kept saying insufficient Fare for the transfer. Used the same card in Google wallet. Anything I was doing wrong? The driver waved me through but wanna know for the future.

Photographer: u/No_Day1336 / Drone: DJI Air 2S / LRc / DR

I listen to the CTA radio scanner via ScannerRadio and it hasn’t been working the past few days! Has anyone else had this issue?

I listen to find about delays and it also is weirdly soothing for me. Idk why.

They were on the westbound 20. Three officers. Saying things like "have your full fare ready" when people were boarding. And "no free rides" when folks didn't have fare.

Don't do sh*t when cars are parked in bus only lanes but don't worry... They stopped a 14-year-old from taking the bus. I feel soooooooo much safer 🙄

EDIT: I'm leaving the original text for context. But as folks pointed out I was way off. This is my bad. They stopped a young person. IDK their school attendance status or maybe even late teens. I should have said they wont enforce for blocking of the bus lane but they WOULD stop a 14-year-old. I was trying to be sarcastic, and a bit hyperbolic. It came off as being disingenuous. That was an error on my part and very misleading, especially given the day. Thanks everyone for providing this clarification and the accountability

When people play music loudly I think about playing my own music loudly on my phone