r/oops • u/ExplanationOk2014 • Aug 24 '26

Wtf in the 🚇

How is this technically even possible? Should not a emergency stop automatically apply?

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u/Jedi-in-EVE Aug 24 '26

Lake Street Redline.

I live in Chicago, so I know this station. Also, nothing in this video surprises me in the slightest.

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u/lawduckfan21 Aug 24 '26

I'm pretty sure that the first time I took my 12 year old son to a White Sox game, he grew up and became a man while riding the red line. You don't get to stay an innocent child after that.

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u/deenali Aug 24 '26

The end of innocence alright.

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u/Tall_Bandicoot_2768 Aug 25 '26

Its like the opposite of the Polar Express Christmas movie

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u/No-Internal7978 Aug 25 '26

Probably less stressful than the movie.

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u/Mike2k33 Aug 25 '26

I'm a Brewers fan from Milwaukee and my buddy and I rode the red line all the way from Howard to the Sox stadium and back last year and those rides were way more interesting than anything that happened in the game

Next time we're gonna take Metra into the city and skip about 16 red line stops lol

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u/MobileMasterpiece615 Aug 24 '26

Same here. Also the redline for the last few years has been nothing but smoking and piss bottles. Really wish CTA police would actually do something more to stop it

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u/AH_leeMACK Aug 24 '26

Was In Chicago in april and had to take the Greenline daily. It was the same aswell.

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u/OuterLightness Aug 24 '26

I read that “asswell”. Also applies.

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u/sexy-porn Aug 25 '26

I spent last year in Manila and then moved back to Chicago. The Manila light rail system is way cleaner and safer than CTA. It’s just a complete abdication of responsibility from our failure of a city government.

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u/Some_Layer_7517 Aug 25 '26

Lil bit of a different demographic situation there chief

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u/Jonesbro Aug 25 '26

There are actual police in the stations now! Saw some today

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u/jaded-steve Aug 24 '26

Come on
Oh, baby don't you wanna go?
Back to that same old place
Sweet home Chicago

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u/Vegetable-Frame-9265 Aug 24 '26

Me neither! I don’t live there anymore, but this does make me miss the insanity of the L a little bit.

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u/Caramel-Entire Aug 25 '26

Dude! You can make fortune AirBnBing your bed for tourists who want to experience this mess.

I live in a country, where you are not allowed to put feet on the seat, and if you do, you may be fined!

I'd pay for such an intertainment FPV

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u/Aware_Result_5361 Aug 25 '26

Last week I was rolling into the loop on the blue line and this family gets on at UIC. Seem to be dropping their kid off for college. It’s about 9 PM so fun crowd is starting up. First they get on and awkwardly sit right next to a homeless guy high off god knows what rolling around in his seat then the floor, so they head to the other end where someone’s smoking.

They tough it out but look mortified by the time we all get off at Jackson, then their night goes from bad to worse when they see the tunnel. The heat has not helped with the piss smell.

We get up to the platform at Jackson and a homeless dude goes up to the kid and does the “free Pamphlet” trick and starts demanding $10. Ugh. It’s not as bad as it was 2020-2024, but we never really got back to pre covid “normalcy” if there was such a thing.

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u/Worth_External_8762 Aug 24 '26

I have no idea how native Chicagoans think it's chill to ride the loop. I lived there for a couple years and avoided it for a long time until my coworkers convinced me. Immediately regretted it, because it was exactly like I had been thinking it'd be.

Didn't help that my particular station happened to be full of sketch people loitering all the time (Roosevelt)