15k sign on bonus for conductors on the UP lines. You MUST have a license already cta.cadienttalent.com/index.jsp?ap...

i HIGHLY recommend listening to jim derwinski's ramblings in the very last citizen's advisory board meeting starting at just past 1h06m. good shit

huh TIL the metra CAB was disbanded by the NITA bill apparently

YOU BETTER GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE RIGHT NOW YOUNG MAN

Its a bit funky seeing them use these pics of Demarco as marketing materials cuz the guy went back to UP and died like a month later from a medical incident.

Yeah tracker is fully down, oops...

uh oh the rapture happened

Mayor of fake city that exists to be a glorified strip mall and airport parking lot with little regulation is mad when the minimally regulated free market does its thing.

I feel bad criticizing them because they are in fact the basis for like half the stats in urban stats but like please take ACS estimates with a grain of salt

how the hell does zwon keep doing it?

by technicality metra has the 2nd highest commuter rail weekday ridership right now how? - LIRR strike - NJT doesn't publish weekday stats

I posted this on reddit and so many people are assuming im talking about the loading zone...which I am very much not because that is not where the arrow is pointing. Also, a lot of people think a plain tow zone with 0 exceptions is fine to stand in? Dude.

Anyone saying the REM was value engineered to shit should be required to watch the entirety of this video. Based on my napkin math, o-train line 2 has a lower top speed than the forst park branch ((12mi/55min)*60 = 13.1mph vs (8.67mi/32min)*60 = 16.3mph) www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNe0...

No Pendry Hotel, I don't think that's how that works...

It really is crazy how which driver/operator you have on transit makes a massive difference in your commute time. I've left for work at the same time the past few days and my arrivals have varied by about 20 minutes

aannndddd again just south of belmont

decided to take the red line instead of the bus because the 146 dropped a trip and we just had an emergency braking application just before north/clybourn. On the bright side the operator has been incredibly communicative about it

I think a major reason I'm such a big fan of the fire stadium is that it reminds me of the lakeside McCormick place building, which is probably my favorite large-but-not-tall buildings out there. Very supervillain vibes but in a good way

I had a weird thing happen very early this morning where my coolify instance went down and just completely stopped responding to any network traffic. After restarting the server, I disabled my custom bluesky feed (ALPeter) which resulted in both much lower CPU and network ingress.

This is what the metra CNW heritage unit shoulda looked like. Even if it wasnt an f40, the paint scheme on metx 90 is just bad

i think the CTA fucked up their december stats. how does the yellow line get 1107 average weekday but if you divide the year total by 365 (so average day) its 1212???

Lake Shore/Stratford has been gone for almost a month now and you wouldn't know it if you rode the bus. The GTFS, bus tracker, and bus announcements still treat it like its there.

who the hell are these people wgn finds for their cooking segment? i just watched this lady combine hummus, canned tuna, capers, and spaghetti in a pan and called it "creamy pasta"

I can never leave my barber in lincoln square because why are there barbers in boystown charging THIRTY FIVE DOLLARS for a BUZZ CUT

Its crazy how undeveloped Beverly Hills (the original one, not the FAKE copy in california) was into the 1960s

Ya know, for a movie not really based in chicago, there really are quite a few shots taken here, and likely more I didn't even detect. In order, CBOT, shedd, o'hare

Where the fuck is this and why are there cabs facing away from the city? Also if this is supposedly a global shutdown why is metra running lol

I'm watching Contagion again because its 2020 again and yeesh...

Just like the CD-MP3 format, I wish a DVD-MP4 sorta format (unofficial, but widely supported) had taken off. A DVD can hold 4.7GB at a minimum, most HD movies can fit within that with some compression! Id love to have a player that can take a dvd with a 1080p mp4 on it and...play it...

Something I came across today is that Metra has an annual procuement plan with various contracts and their estimated posting time on the website. What REALLY drew my attention is "Battery Electric Switching" and "All Electric Switcher" being listed separately. assets.metra.com/s3fs-public/...

Ive been using a custom instance if maplibre native to render the open graph images used by Amtraker and recently ive been wondering if its worth it to use something like cloudflare workers + maplibre gl js instead. amtraker.com/stations/SEA

Assuming this is true, every single educational institution I've ever attended, from elementary through the bit of college I did, has been hacked. Im unsure how much of my data still exists at these places, but unless all of them pay up i may be cooked

hello

I feel like I see big bus supervisors more than I see CTA supervisors, and that says something about CTA middle management

The key to eating downtown is finding office buildings that open their cafeteria to the public.

A futures market that relies entirely on headlines and doesnt read articles until afterwards it seems

I tend to use the same few passwords for accounts I dont care about but it turns out that when someone in nyc logs into your subway account they can order a sandwich from a location in brooklyn and both subway and my credit card company didnt bat an eye. I tried calling the store to cancel the...

going on linkedin can be fun because your recommended connections are 50% "ok cool they're moving up in the world" and 50% "what the FUUUUUUCK happened to SULLIVAN"

Genuinely why hasnt the CTA redone the Gtfs for reroutes on buses affected by state/lake? Any detour longer than a week really should be scheduled in

Real foamers know this shoulda been 10 or 11

I hate that theres a chicago "urbanist" growing in popularity that argues turning 2-flats into single family homes *increases* density.

NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION (AMTRAK) UNIVERSAL SINGLE-LEVEL FLEET REPLACEMENT foia.piemadd.com/amtrak/26-FO...

Checking the RTAMS site for updates on the new Metra rolling stock is like waiting for a ship at the airport

aaaannnnndddd they actually went even higher

It really is a shame this showed up in my spam, despite SPM, DKIM, and DMARC all passing. Good effort by ventra tho!

Funny that Indiana eliminated their state gas tax and then when prices started increasing again, stations just increased the prices to what they'd be with the tax, leading to 0 savings for Hoosiers and shooting a hole in the state budget. cc @starlinechicago.bsky.social whose been talking about this

the thing is I like all this stuff. I like the hot honey and ricotta slices. I like the turmeric brussels sprouts. I like the corporate slop bowls. it's either my least or most pretentious opinion that most of this food is actually pretty good.

IDK what the hell is going on at google's HQ but why the hell is THIS page using FOUR GIGABYTES of ram

is it just coincidence that traffic is way lighter today, or are higher crude and gas prices playing a part here?