He was a little concerned that I might be putting his photo in the paper. I said no, but after all, he was doing his work, wasn't he? He said "That's right. Send it to my boss."
Have I mentioned how much we love the results we get when we advertise on the CTA? Unsolicited commercial.
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Blue Line
Whatever it was, they finally gave up and we took the train on the other side of the platform. But the best part was when the guy with the clipboard got on his walkie-talkie and paged "Frank, Frank, where are you?" and the guy standing behind him in the watch cap tapped him on the shoulder and said "here."
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Operators from all the other lines are being rotated in to get qualified on the new trains. This one is Anna.
One more bit of information I hadn't heard about the new trains. When they're working right, the trains are supposed to level themselves off at the platform so people with wheelchairs won't have to wait while someone brings a gapfiller so they can get on or off the train.
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Father and daughter on the Green Line.
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