"The CTA is a Third World transportation system," said Chicago Alderman Joe Moore. Like many politicians, Moore was quick to quiveringly howl that there was a "crisis" brewing a few months ago when the CTA announced track closings to allow for much needed infrastructure upgrades.
Today we see the stupidity of Joe Moore's silliness. Seems there was no crisis brewing. Not even a minor problem. The CTA itself gave a greatly hyperbolized prediction of what they thought would be travel time disasters.
"Hell," the CTA said, it would be "hell." It ain't so, says the Chicago Sun-Times today:
The CTA said it would be "hell," and L riders were warned their travel times might double.
But a month after the CTA closed one of four tracks at the Belmont and Fullerton L stations, riding the Red, Brown, Blue and Purple Express lines takes about as much time as before. The track work is part of the expansion of the Brown Line.
In some cases, riding the rails is even speedier. FULL STORY...
What many of us can learn from this - but won't - is that predictions often do not come true, especially those made by bureaucrats seeking public sympathy or politicians trying to deflect criticism for other issues. By the way, have you heard about the Global Warming predictions of disaster and doom?
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Joe Moore's CTA Hysteria Derailed
"The CTA is a Third World transportation system," said Chicago Alderman Joe Moore. Like many politicians, Moore was quick to quiveringly howl that there was a "crisis" brewing a few months ago when the CTA announced track closings to allow for much needed infrastructure upgrades.
Today we see the stupidity of Joe Moore's silliness. Seems there was no crisis brewing. Not even a minor problem. The CTA itself gave a greatly hyperbolized prediction of what they thought would be travel time disasters.
"Hell," the CTA said, it would be "hell." It ain't so, says the Chicago Sun-Times today:
The CTA said it would be "hell," and L riders were warned their travel times might double.
But a month after the CTA closed one of four tracks at the Belmont and Fullerton L stations, riding the Red, Brown, Blue and Purple Express lines takes about as much time as before. The track work is part of the expansion of the Brown Line.
In some cases, riding the rails is even speedier. FULL STORY...
What many of us can learn from this - but won't - is that predictions often do not come true, especially those made by bureaucrats seeking public sympathy or politicians trying to deflect criticism for other issues. By the way, have you heard about the Global Warming predictions of disaster and doom?
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Ya know I really wanted to see what would happen, and I didn't have much sympathy for the whiners because do it now or do it later you will do the work and it will get more expensive the longer you wait to do it.
ReplyDeleteI ride the 147 every AM and the EL every PM and it hasn't been bad and the work has got to get done. I'll be looking forward to the future when they are through and we can see how it all turns out. So far, what I see looks promising.