r/cta

Stopped at Granville for no good goddamn reason, only for the conductor to explain that power went off at Howard.

How does power at a whole-ass terminal station w/ 3 lines go out?

There is exactly ZERO inclement weather, and I would think a transit system would maybe have 1 or 2 power backups to prevent this happening.

What the fuck? What the actual fuck? All this money for RPM modernization and making stations look better - how in the hell did *every* workaround preventing this situation fail?

Shameful.

Is the north bound slow zone between Fullerton and Belmont on the red line gone? My train freaking just flew through there.

Is there a way to check the time remaining (or equivalently, the time of first activation scan) on a 7-day Ventra ticket I found on the street?

I have a City Key myself with recurring monthly pass on it and so I can check all that in the app, I found where I can type in a serial number to check money on a regular actual Ventra CARD, but when I type the number along the side of the ticket, the form says it needs an expiration date, and the paper ticket doesn’t seem to have any such thing.

It does also say “ED-25-13” I have no idea what that is.

I obviously don’t NEED this thing for anything but it’s got me curious (and if it did have time remaining maybe worth giving to a tourist in line to buy a ticket…)