CTA Tattler

11:30, sure, because I have no place else to be at 11:30. Like, say, work.

For those of you who are able to go - give 'em hell.

amen, Meg!
Give them one for me, too!

A rally at 11:30 on a weekday? Brilliant idea... What, Sat at 4am was taken?

I was considering going until I saw the part about the screaming.

Meg, Dee, and Colin. You need better jobs. The kinds of jobs that have a perk called "lunch."

David, David, David--I have lunch (isn't it illegal to have a FT position without?). It's *scheduled* for 1pm. And I don't work downtown, either, so I couldn't have made it on my lunch anyway. I would imagine Meg & Colin are in similar positions. We aren't so fortunate as you apparently are.
Again, give a yell for those unable to attend!

Dee,
I am blessed to have a job that includes lunch. That you don't work in the Loop is a different issue, but Meg was acting like "working" foreclosed going to the rally.

D

but a lot of people can't go to lunch whenever they want; a lot of them start at 12 or 1. I know there are some lucky folk in offices can go when they want to, but not everyone is so fortunate--I rarely was & still am not. Jobs in the public sector (banks, DMV, retail, etc.) do schedule your breaks so the desk/counter/floor is always manned. If there's no one to cover for a schedule change,then you're stuck until the allotted time. (you're apparently blessed in a couple ways)

WELL, those of us fortunate to have both an office job that allows us to take lunch when we want and work in the Loop, we must go represent! I know a lot of people that do have this flexibility and I've sent emails to everyone urging them to bring some food tomorrow and come to the rally at 11:30. Looks like the weather will be good too.

Let's get the government out of transportation business altogether: privatize CTA, break it up into at least four branches, and impose certain limitations as to the rate of fare hikes, etc. Then let them slug it out with Mayor Daley's people acting as referees.

After this mornings rush hour delay on the blueline, I doubt anyone will be able to make it...oh wait, we've all been fired for being late...Thanks CTA!

I wasn't saying that working foreclosed going to the rally, I was just saying that many folks find the CTA more of a necessity than a convenience, and most of us can't just wander off to lunch whenever we please.

I work in Rosemont. Taking the el from Rosemont down to the rally would have been at least half an hour in and of itself, and that's the extent of my lunch break...which I don't take until 1:30 anyhow.

I hope you made it to the rally, David, on behalf of those of us who couldn't. :)

A very disappointing, even pathetic show by the citizens of Chicago. I'm down there thinking, "What about all these hundreds of thousands who work in high rises just blocks away and take the CTA every day... Where are they?" It's lunch break for crying out loud.

Colin, are you that naive to think that Springfield will listen without human vocality?

It is interesting that on yesterday our Lord
High Mayor was rallying for transit funding
from Springfield when He:
1. Did not go or send a representative to
Springfield to lobby for state transit funding increases
2. Can hand out TIFs as if they were concert
tickets
3. Can place an 11 cents tax on a bottle or
can of soda but will not raise a dedicated
city-funded source for the CTA