What the author of this tweet doesn’t mention is the reliability of the blue line between downtown Chicago and ORD is absolute garbage. You can routinely be stuck on a train for 45-60 minutes at a time because of technical difficulties.<p><a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/why-are-cta-trains-stopped-495110281.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/why-are-cta-trains...</a><p>> Responding to an open records request, the CTA said between January of 2017 to May 2018, there were 471 disruptions of 10 minutes or longer. Of those 469 breakdowns, 162 were on the Blue Line. The Red Line was second with 94, followed by the Green with 55.<p>> We are running, right now, as many trains as possible, on the O’Hare branch of the Blue Line during the am/pm rush,” he says. “We are running as many trains as possible, and we are running them as closely together, as we can.”<p>If Boring Co can offer consistently reliable 12 minute trips that parallel the Blue Line for $20, sign me up. Cheaper than a Lyft, but more reliable than what the CTA can deliver.<p>TLDR Edgy Chicago journalist uses baseless complaints to push mediocre podcast on Twitter and sidestep that Chicago politics and no will to fix systemic city level financial issues are the core issue.