{"id":659720,"date":"2010-02-09T22:07:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T03:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=17277"},"modified":"2010-02-09T22:07:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T03:07:23","slug":"now-cta-riders-have-two-reasons-to-allow-extra-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/659720","title":{"rendered":"Now, CTA riders have two reasons to allow extra time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-17310\" title=\"cta-buses-in-chicago-snow\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chicagopressrelease.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/cta-buses-in-chicago-snow-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>CHICAGO &#8212; The CTA says commuters should allow for extra time, for two reasons: CTA cutbacks mean fewer buses are on the streets. And the buses that are on the streets will have to deal with the snow.<\/p>\n<p>CTA doomsday &#8211; meet Chicago snow day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The snow is going to make it a little bit more difficult,&#8221; said CTA President Richard Rodriguez. <span id=\"more-17277\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The rail side is typically not impacted as much by the snow.\u00a0 But the buses are because of the streets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez says, allow a minimum of 30 to 45 minutes extra commuting time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The goal is to try to get people to and from work as efficiently as they had been previously.\u00a0 Individuals may not be sitting anymore on a bus, but the goal is to try to get them on a bus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, commuters told stories of being bypassed by buses too full to take on even one more passenger.<\/p>\n<p>By Steve Miller<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article from <a title=\"Now, CTA riders have 2 reasons to allow extra time\" href=\"http:\/\/wbbm780.com\/content_page.php?contentType=4&amp;contentId=5553761\"  rel='nofollow'>WBBM News Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KYQ1CZHYwildgvrHluLKYzFwaD4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KYQ1CZHYwildgvrHluLKYzFwaD4\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KYQ1CZHYwildgvrHluLKYzFwaD4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KYQ1CZHYwildgvrHluLKYzFwaD4\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=SYHu8rWTov0:Z6e6TDUDQqQ:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=SYHu8rWTov0:Z6e6TDUDQqQ:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=SYHu8rWTov0:Z6e6TDUDQqQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=SYHu8rWTov0:Z6e6TDUDQqQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/SYHu8rWTov0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO &#8212; The CTA says commuters should allow for extra time, for two reasons: CTA cutbacks mean fewer buses are on the streets. 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CTA doomsday &#8211; meet Chicago snow day. &#8220;The snow is going to make it a little bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2LCE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}