Most Retarded Bus Stop Ever
By Candice at 01:37:23 on Jan 23, 2009 in CTA, This is unacceptable...
This is not a retarded bus stop. This is a perfectly normal bus stop. The 135, 145 or 148 let me off here on the SE corner of N Clarendon Ave and W Montrose Ave (circled — don’t know why Google didn’t add an icon there…):
Compare that to this bus stop (circled):
That’s at the intersection of N Marine Dr, N Lakeshore Dr, and W Montrose Ave. Routes 136, 144 and 146 stop here. In case you can’t tell, the ones labelled N Marine Dr and W Montrose Ave are N Marine Dr and W Montrose Ave, which are both two-way streets. The thin yellow line is the Montrose exit to the southbound lanes of N Lakeshore Drive (cars on the road head only south (that’s down, for those of you who aren’t used to our Northern Hemispherically Biased mapping system)). If you’re not figuring this out for yourself, that circle is a median in the middle of a busy intersection where cars can be heading in any one of 20-something different directions (I’m not sure which turns are forbidden here, not having a car and all).
This is a picture of a bastard NB 146 CTA bus stopping to let people on and off to or from a median into the middle of what (‘s not seen here, but often is) heavy traffic:
And here’s a nice shot of the bus stop itself:
This is the SW corner of N Marine Dr and W Montrose Ave:
You should notice that there is a fence curving all the way around that corner, so that you can’t get to the sidewalk if you are walking towards it from the east. Not unless you walk around the fence to the left (and climb up fairly steep, frequently muddy, presently snowbank-covered hill) or to the right, on the busy street.
Couldn’t the bus just stop at the NE SE corner of N Marine Dr and W Montrose Ave instead? Where there’s a sidewalk and a crosswalk? Would that muck up traffic too much? Because we all know that not mucking up traffic is far more important than the potentiality of having me, myself or I (or any other passengers of CTA bus routes 136, 144 and 146 who happen to live near this intersection) maimed and/or killed by large, fast-moving objects.
Pfft.
Sick of having my feet get wet in the snow every time the first bus that happens along is one that stops here.