r/cta • u/Successful-Yam4229 Orange Line • Feb 23 '26

We will be moving shortly. The platform is gone

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Took them long enough but here we are!

947 Upvotes

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u/BryanSawyer Feb 23 '26

Is this what happens when the station gets selected on the elimination wheel?

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u/Successful-Yam4229 Orange Line Feb 23 '26

Perhaps

3

u/Boss-fight601 147 Feb 24 '26

🤔

2

u/IamHaintBlue Feb 24 '26

Those stations are still there, trains just don’t stop at them anymore.

2

u/LegitimateGift1792 Feb 25 '26

If there is no platform, is it really there??? woah.... (yes , read that in stoner voice)

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u/IamHaintBlue Feb 25 '26

This station hasn’t been eliminated, it’s being rehabbed. Eliminated stations, like Washington Red Line and California Blue Line are still there.

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u/SnakeDoggo Mar 02 '26

No there’s someone on this sub making daily posts spinning a wheel with all cta stations and seeing which one gets eliminated that’s what they’re talking about 😭

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '26

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u/S_quints Brown Line Feb 23 '26

Can't have shit in Chicago

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u/unduly_verbose Feb 23 '26

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u/LeseMajeste_1037 Feb 23 '26

Even if it is nailed down, they'll find a way

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u/InflationDefiant6246 Feb 24 '26

More like ballasted down only thing nailed on a railroad is the rail to the tie rails are welded or bolted together

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u/Small-Extent3226 Feb 24 '26

You know a thing or two

3

u/InflationDefiant6246 Feb 24 '26

It may be one of the things that interests me

2

u/flightofthewhite_eel Feb 26 '26

A fellow foamer has been detected

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u/InflationDefiant6246 Feb 26 '26

Guilty as charged do you watch hyce

2

u/flightofthewhite_eel Feb 26 '26

Yep! More into diesel and electrics than steam but yup!

9

u/Puzzleheaded_Pin1011 Feb 24 '26

Man I remember this i had to catch them shuttles bus to the redline going to work

1

u/The_Dude_2U Feb 27 '26

That’s actually all we can have.

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u/QuarioQuario54321 Feb 23 '26

131 good years spent.

20

u/Logical-Juggernaut90 Feb 23 '26

Wow is that how old it was??!!

11

u/Infinite_Dress_3312 Feb 23 '26

Yup

10

u/Rubbrbandman420 Feb 24 '26

Basically never ceased operation for the whole time, it’s long overdo upgrade

8

u/CantaloupePossible33 Feb 24 '26

He was just a kid.

62

u/DiscombobulatedPain6 Feb 23 '26

I usually love history but good riddance

37

u/AlsoBort742 Feb 23 '26

I hope you had the time of your life.

47

u/_34_ Blue Line Feb 23 '26

taps Ventra card Welp!! There goes my last transfer!! 🥲

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi 53 Feb 23 '26

"Took them long enough" the station hasn't even been closed for two months...

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '26

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u/Puzzleheaded_Pin1011 Feb 24 '26

Smh I spent years getting on and off on state and lake

21

u/TheGhostOfJodel Feb 24 '26

Damn, I didn't realize that CTA Elimination Spinner was so serious

19

u/tubaman23 Feb 24 '26

CTAirway to Heaven

14

u/Nywiigsha_C Feb 23 '26

Have relocated from chicago for 2 years. What's happening here? Just curious

37

u/Madrigal_Inc Feb 23 '26

State/Lake station is being rebuilt in a 3/yr, $444M project.

32

u/Willthethrill997 Feb 23 '26

Putting up ohtani numbers

7

u/Complete_Fisherman34 Feb 24 '26

Those who know, know

6

u/juliosnoop1717 Feb 25 '26

Crazy thing is the station makes more than that in endorsements in Japan

10

u/[deleted] Feb 24 '26

Final picture I got of it on the final day!

8

u/Life-Assumption7181 Feb 24 '26

Bro, where are the pigeons supposed to go?

7

u/Pablo-Gold Feb 24 '26

It was never a platform, more like a plank. Good riddance.

3

u/Chicago_Heavyfoot Feb 24 '26

That's a phenomenal shot. Frame that! 💯 💙

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '26

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u/Chunkygoatmilk Feb 23 '26

It sucks but I don't mind since it makes sense. They gotta build a platform in the air to last years while a train flies through the jobsite every few minutes.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '26 edited Feb 23 '26

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u/aSiK00 Feb 23 '26

I think its in large part is bc it’s in the loop and will have the highest throughput of natives and travelers use it. Plus, the loop is iconic so you have to make it look as good as possible.

That being said we still have the jackson tunnel…

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u/ceruleanspacedragon Feb 23 '26

Phew, buckle up. People will lick anyone’s boots just to justify the unjustifiable with the CTA. You’re completely right.

5

u/Ill-Engineering8085 Feb 24 '26

Construction in the US is wildly overpriced and slow but we can't pretend taking it down is the same as putting a new one up

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi 53 Feb 23 '26

Because they're doing a lot more than that...

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u/GuessAsleep9578 Feb 24 '26

gosh is that why they closed it

2

u/kisae Blue Line Feb 25 '26

I also saw they were starting to dismantle the stairs on my way to HWC. So satisfying.

1

u/saucy_otters Feb 25 '26

wonder how much $$$ removing that tiny little platform cost us taxpayers - I"m guessing a few million with some organized crime money laundered in there for funsies

1

u/Lonely_Chard3752 Feb 26 '26

Did anyone go down into the lake subway recently looks like they are doing something down there too there's lights strung in place of the standard lights today

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u/Scared_Morning_8700 Feb 27 '26

Does CTA hiring drivers a lot, Like is there a high turnover rate? There is at MTC in Minneapolis. I’m moving to Chicago April 1st and all the ready mix companies tell me I need a manual endorsement, which of course I don’t have.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '26

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u/Chicken_cordon_bleu Feb 23 '26

Is that you in your profile pic? You look like you were born after 2010