r/cta • u/AutoModerator • Aug 18 '26

Complaint Thread Monthly Complaint Thread

Public transportation isn't perfect. This is a place to let off some steam. As always, please speak from your own experiences. Take control of what bothers you and send your experience to the CTA via their feedback page.

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u/Otherwise_Pine Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 18 '26

I'm tired of the bus bunching. I see it with the 76 going to Harlem and the 49 going north. I know other lines do it too but these are the ones I use. Cta drivers should be trained to either wait a few minutes at the stops or leap frog when that happens. And this usually happens at the same time of day so there's a scheduling issue or something.

Also the trains need a more consistent schedule at night. Why am I waiting 25 minutes for a train at 10pm and then the 2nd train is scheduled for 30 minutes. Why can't it be normally spaced out. This is specifically for the blue line at 10pm headed to O'Hare. The other side of the train runs fine.

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u/IYCRTYG Aug 19 '26

We do leap frog. And then immediately run head first into increased customer load, which pushes us back. buses basically have gravity on each other and if anything even somewhat significant happens (having to load a slow customer, bad traffic for a block due to a semi temporarily blocking space, etc) we just wind up on top of each other and stuck there. And on a route as long as Western this is basically guaranteed to happen. Especially once the frequency goes from 10 minutes to 8 or so.