Ask CTA - “How frequently do you clean buses?”

Buses leave their garages every day cleaned and ready for service-but often they’re not coming back that way. So what happens and what does CTA do about it? This week’s “Ask CTA” gives a behind-the-garage-doors look at how we get our entire fleet of buses ready for service.

[@janeentumbao8690]

The reason that busses get messy is because people are messing them up.
Every spilled coffee. Every candy wrapper. Every chip. Every pile of sunflower seed shells. Every cigarette butt and piece of tobacco. Every beer or wine bottle. Every pee and poo stain. Every diaper...
Passengers leave behind.
CTA cleans it up.
If passengers didn't create the mess, busses would be cleaner.
End of story. 😂
Thanks to each and every one of y'all that bust your butts to make this all happen!🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉

[@Me-eb3wv]

Pee and poo stain on buses?!!!! How common is that?

[@janeentumbao8690]

@@Me-eb3wv More common than I wanna know.
I've seen poop piles at bus stops. Like on the bench.
I've seen women piss in the Howard transit station.
People even piss in the elevators at the Davis purple line.

[@Busandrailfan]

I say this all the time. When the buses leave the garage, it’s clean. When people board then bus, that’s when it starts becoming dirty and the part that I thought would help to keep the buses a little clean throughout the day would have the operator pick up the trash at the end of the line because most have trash cans available. Get gloves and throw it out. But most operators feel it’s above their pay grade to do it so the buses stay nastier and come back to the garages with sticky floors because of beer or soda cans rolling across the floors and trash piled up.

[@abran794]

#chicagotransitauthority ❤❤Thanks for such hard work, I use'm early morning and yes, those seats are frequently cleaned. It takes my attention that issues such as eating, drinking, listening to loud music, talking loudly at the cellphones, not packages, or other items on the seats are enforced, by the evening is really awful to use the cta service and see all of these.😢😢😢😢

[@anabellemolina7621]

Incredible 👏👏👏

[@antoinettahill5340]

Can't be because I ride cta 4 5 and 6 o'clock hours in the am for work and the bus have trash on it

[@markl7473]

But you don't have the Second Chance Program no more . So how you gonna keep up?

[@chrisyates1356]

We do. That never went away.

[@cmdelestine]

It’s not just with busses. It’s with the train stations and trains. The subways are dark, dingy, smell and are dirty.
People need to be more respectful and keep their trash for the garbage cans not the floors and ground.

[@talibmeansseeker4606]

I commend CTA. Wish it was made MANDATORY for ALL Transit Authorities. Here at KCTA they never care. They would be ashamed if they did a video of how it’s done here. New management comes in and it’s a topic for a season but it always goes back to the norm. FILTHY.

[@talibmeansseeker4606]

What are the 35 services mentioned?

[@user-my3vt6rr7x]

😅

[@ivanboggs6331]

Cta brought in 705.66 billion last year alone yet all the public gets is a once a day cleaning? Yeah I see why riding the bus feels like being a passenger in a mobile landfill

[@NAV1989]

It's y'all. Y'all are dirty!