Does Carl Lingenfelter Give a Rat's Ass?

We are all aware, by now, of the horrible tragedy of the collapsed bridge in Minneapolis.

How long will it be before a similar infrastructure problems strikes Chicago? Just days ago, a large steam pipe under the streets of New York City blew, injuring some people; one man died of a fear-induced heart attack.

Here in Rogers Park, Chicago, the local "leaders" care more about putting a pretty facade on rotting infrastructure than they do about fixing it. Actually, they don't even care much about that. The Daley administration is certainly to blame as well, for the problem is citywide. Last Saturday, Joe Moore congratulated himself and his buddies at DevCorp North and the Special Service Area #24 commissioners for putting up an $11,000 mural on the Morse Avenue CTA overpass. The overpass, and other CTA viaducts, are literally and badly crumbling.

The photos here were taken within the past month. They show not just an inattention to paint. Rather, they show a terrible neglect of the very structure itself. As you look at these photos, ask yourself this: Would you drive over a bridge in your car every day if the bridge looked like this?
Carl Lingenfelter, CTA Chairman Carol Brown’s chief of staff, lives in the neighborhood. Joe Moore thanked him for letting his buddies use the CTA walls for their vanity painting projects.

QUESTION: Does Carl Lingenfelter give a rat's ass about the condition of the structure itself, and if so, why is he not doing something about it?

QUESTION: Does Carl Lingenfelter care that YOU must smell the urine of drunkards and crack addicts in the stairways of the Morse and Jarvis stations, or that you take a chance of a pigeon crapping on you every time you enter or exit one of those stations?

QUESTION: Does Carl Lingenfelter use the CTA stations in Rogers Park? If so, is he (a) blind, (b) without a sense of smell, or (c) without compassion for CTA customers here?

The CTA has been working overtime recently on track repairs in Rogers Park. We'll give them that. But all that track repair will mean nothing if - or when - the damned tracks fall onto the street. Or on you.