I went to uchicago and I am absolutely _loving_ all the Hyde Park representation in this video!! I used the 2 and 192 a few times as different ways to get downtown, they're certainly weird! part of the issue is that the main services to Hyde Park (the CTA 6 and Metra Electric) all bring you to Grant Park with no great way of going west, so having alternative services that get you further than Michigan are actually super helpful (not to mention other factors like the 192's ridership source of university hospital staff commuters!)
From what I’m told from supervisors who sit at the UPS terminals, It serves the routing it does to connect with the neighborhood. CTA didn’t exactly design the routing when it was first introduced as a pilot route. When UPS first pitched the idea to CTA, the employees & supervision at UPS came up with two different routings, then voted on it. Today’s 169 routing simply made more sense because the people who rode the route, they came from separate areas around the south side. Not to mention, the 69th Street Terminal has more connections after ending its trip at 69th. The bus also has to layover, in case it gets there early. It’s much easier to do so at 69th than 79th.
That is quite interesting not gonna lie. But it definitely does make sense for that route to start/end their trips at 69th CTA Red Line Station since the station has a bus station as mentioned above. Plus you can pretty travel at any direction with multiple routes serving that station as well, assuming that's where the general ridership comes from.
Question about this comment: if you were to work for the CTA and had the idea to bring back these routes mentioned, what would you want to the schedules to be like and what would the destinations be to and from in your opinion?
Pace route 385 is one of the weirdest routes I know of. It's a very weird and pretty inefficient route considering it runs east and west along 87th st, 111th st, 127th st I would imagine that once the Red Line extension opens for revenue service many routes like 103 and 106, (111, 111A, 112) etc would be consolidated
Definitely agree that Pace Bus route 385 is one of Pace's weirdest routes. As mentioned, it operates on 3 streets and it pretty much connects to Rt 383 3 times as the route intersects Cicero Ave 3 times. Including connecting to other Pace Bus routes that start and end their trips at Midway CTA Orange Line Station at least 2 times. A few years ago, before we have the current route 315 today, that route used to have a weird routing. The original Rt 315 operated to/from Austin CTA Green Line Station and near Ridgeland CTA Green Line Station. It's basically routes 314 & 315 combined in one route and this was before we have route 314.
I'm surprised Rt 54A North Cicero/Skokie Blvd isn't mentioned. I honestly find that route weird since it operates only during the weekday rush hour. The weirdest part about it is that fact that when when that route isn't operating, passengers needs to suburbs like Skokie, IL to take a long detour just to access portions of the route like Dempster-Skokie & Oakton-Skokie Yellow Line Stations and Old Orchard Mall as perfect examples.
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This was very interesting. I knew about some of these but not all of these.
I went to uchicago and I am absolutely _loving_ all the Hyde Park representation in this video!! I used the 2 and 192 a few times as different ways to get downtown, they're certainly weird! part of the issue is that the main services to Hyde Park (the CTA 6 and Metra Electric) all bring you to Grant Park with no great way of going west, so having alternative services that get you further than Michigan are actually super helpful (not to mention other factors like the 192's ridership source of university hospital staff commuters!)
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I'm not surprised that CTA has weird routes lol
From what I’m told from supervisors who sit at the UPS terminals, It serves the routing it does to connect with the neighborhood. CTA didn’t exactly design the routing when it was first introduced as a pilot route. When UPS first pitched the idea to CTA, the employees & supervision at UPS came up with two different routings, then voted on it. Today’s 169 routing simply made more sense because the people who rode the route, they came from separate areas around the south side. Not to mention, the 69th Street Terminal has more connections after ending its trip at 69th. The bus also has to layover, in case it gets there early. It’s much easier to do so at 69th than 79th.
That is quite interesting not gonna lie. But it definitely does make sense for that route to start/end their trips at 69th CTA Red Line Station since the station has a bus station as mentioned above. Plus you can pretty travel at any direction with multiple routes serving that station as well, assuming that's where the general ridership comes from.
@@dangelohartley5977 Exactly.
Yesss your back. Love the video
i feel like they should bring back the 33 and 173 and 144 145 122 123
Question about this comment: if you were to work for the CTA and had the idea to bring back these routes mentioned, what would you want to the schedules to be like and what would the destinations be to and from in your opinion?
Pace route 385 is one of the weirdest routes I know of. It's a very weird and pretty inefficient route considering it runs east and west along 87th st, 111th st, 127th st
I would imagine that once the Red Line extension opens for revenue service many routes like 103 and 106, (111, 111A, 112) etc would be consolidated
Definitely agree that Pace Bus route 385 is one of Pace's weirdest routes. As mentioned, it operates on 3 streets and it pretty much connects to Rt 383 3 times as the route intersects Cicero Ave 3 times. Including connecting to other Pace Bus routes that start and end their trips at Midway CTA Orange Line Station at least 2 times.
A few years ago, before we have the current route 315 today, that route used to have a weird routing. The original Rt 315 operated to/from Austin CTA Green Line Station and near Ridgeland CTA Green Line Station. It's basically routes 314 & 315 combined in one route and this was before we have route 314.
I am not surprised ☹ that there was A cta bus route named 33
I'm surprised Rt 54A North Cicero/Skokie Blvd isn't mentioned. I honestly find that route weird since it operates only during the weekday rush hour. The weirdest part about it is that fact that when when that route isn't operating, passengers needs to suburbs like Skokie, IL to take a long detour just to access portions of the route like Dempster-Skokie & Oakton-Skokie Yellow Line Stations and Old Orchard Mall as perfect examples.
The 54A is pretty weird, but beyond the horrendous schedule it don't see it as super unique. I probably would've put it in 11th or 12th place.
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