Another New Strategy
This might be the most brilliant crime fighting plan ever conceived by the Chicago political structure:
South Side riders of the CTA’s Red Line L are in for a commuting nightmare a year from now, when the CTA plans to shut down the south leg of the line for five months.
Starting next May, the agency will completely rebuild the Red Line from Cermak Road to 95th Street, a deteriorating, 10-mile stretch of L tracks built in 1969.
Officials hope to alleviate the $425 million reconstruction headache for commuters with shuttle buses that will take riders from major stations along the route to the alternative Green Line.
“This will obviously create significant impacts for commuters,” CTA spokesman Brian Steele said Monday.
The impact on the iPhone robberies alone is estimated to be a drop of at least 54%.
Wildings? An astonishing 63% reduction over the course of the summer of 2013.
If the City manages to shut down the Green Line, we could be talking about drops of 92% or better.
Wildings? An astonishing 63% reduction over the course of the summer of 2013.
If the City manages to shut down the Green Line, we could be talking about drops of 92% or better.
Labels: sarcasm AND silliness
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
41 Comments:
SCC, why is the first deputy restricting time due from 14Jun till 18Jun?
Another "emergency"??
shut down the green line and red line and make the taste of chicago a pay festival.. wow people might want to come downtown again.
sorry... the blue line is still up and running and dropping the animal off right in the heart of downtown...
Boy, the more I read SCC the more I feel like I'm reading that embarrassingly racist OTHER blog. Lots of law abiding, tax paying black folks are also going to experience major transportation headaches trying to get to their downtown and northside jobs too.
I know you labeled this sarcasm and silliness, but this is not a joke. I work in 018 and I can assure you that crime will be down immensely during this time. And if they were to stop running the green line also, downtown would be the way it should be.
I wonder what the crime statistics were when the Green Line was shut down for reconstruction back in the early-mid 90s?
I wonder what the crime statistics were when the Green Line was shut down for reconstruction back in the early-mid 90s?
One needs to look at the most important percentage to be gleaned from this equation:
How will this effect the number of officers assigned to Special Enjoyment?
Knowing how the department backdoors us at every opportunity, don't be surprised when the announcement is made that "effective immediately, the number of officer's assigned to Mass Transit will be reduced to ____".
There's already been rumors circling of the demise of CTA Special - might this be the unofficial declaration?
Silver lining? In theory, that manpower can be utilized at the respective district level, resulting in more people able to use elective time off. That is, of course, the HomeyCide numbers don't go north of 500. Ain't that right, McScramblingForIdeas?
hahahahaha
You don't know what you are talking about. The estimates are in the 100% range.
The Man is taking back the City. It's a conspiracy. It's bogus. It's racist. Where is Jeesie and Al Sharpton?
SCC, that is not a silly idea at all. And whoever is the McStupe during that time will claim the latest, newest, bestest, bells/whistles crime fighting strategy is pure genius.
The city wouldn't want to hurt the apple harvesting industry, there will be free buses from the Red Line stations to nearby Green Line stations.
Whe you read the papers and watch the news, their is a very consistant "DEMOGRAPHIC" that is always doing the shooting, robbing, and various other shenanigans. THEY...will complain but we will see a drop in crime simply based on the lack of getaway options...I mean transportation back home for them.
Boy, the more I read SCC the more I feel like I'm reading that embarrassingly racist OTHER blog. Lots of law abiding, tax paying black folks are also going to experience major transportation headaches trying to get to their downtown and northside jobs too.
6/05/2012 12:19:00 AM
Once again, the reading disabled rear their heads from the laps of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and phather Phleger.
Could you point out any single reference to minority folks? Maybe the word "black," or "brown" or something similar?
Go back and read it again dumbshit. It seems the only one attributing race to the entire post, half of which is from the Sun Times, is you. You are making an assumption as to the race of the criminals we are making fun of. Dare we say that makes you the only racist in the room?
As an aside, and since Eric Holder has declared Americans are cowards when it comes to having honest discussions about race, perhaps you'd like to justify casting around accusations of racism where there is none, thereby contribution to the lack of honest discourse. In an effort to correct that "problem," please address the almost near unanimity of crime on the Red Line by minority youth against primarily minority victims in something resembling a mature and logical explanation.
Asshat.
This is the first thing I thought of when I heard that story...All hail Rahm the Wise One!
2013 thunderdome comes to the southside
Anonymous said...
SCC, why is the first deputy restricting time due from 14Jun till 18Jun?
Another "emergency"??
6/05/2012 12:04:00 AM
Yeah ... it's called "Puerto Rican Fest."
Anonymous said...
SCC, why is the first deputy restricting time due from 14Jun till 18Jun?
Another "emergency"??
6/05/2012 12:04:00 AM
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Humboldt Park Fest, President Obama coming to town 16-18 Jun, Red Sox vs Cubs at Wrigley, then Cubs vs White Sox at US Cellular.
Will the freelance preachers, panhandlers, sock and rap cd salesmen, kids selling candy for their "teams," etc. all ride the shuttle buses between the stations and the Green Line? Those guys gotta make a living somehow. The west side of the intersection of 87th and the Dan Ryan is like freakin' Maxwell Street already.
Anonymous said...
Boy, the more I read SCC the more I feel like I'm reading that embarrassingly racist OTHER blog. Lots of law abiding, tax paying black folks are also going to experience major transportation headaches trying to get to their downtown and northside jobs too.
6/05/2012 12:19:00 AM
You know, I honestly feel bad for you. I'm sure it's a pain in the ass to be lumped in with the shit, but deep inside, you know that SCC is right. I am sorry that it will makes lives harder on the working people, but make no mistake, even YOU know that it will abandon certain bad elements, who CHOOSE to be assholes, not because of the color of their skin, but just because they can be.
How are the flash mob kids supposed to get to the taste now?
No one seems to have reported the massive railroad bridge replacement project going on on the former Chicago and North Western "North Line," the one from downtown to Kenosha.
Ravenswood runs alongside the rail embankment.
Montrose/Ravenswood was completely blocked this weekend; there are four tracks, I think, and two "plate girder" bridges per overpass; they are working like mad nights and weekends to completely replace the bridges and abutments, doing it one side at a time. Ten-story-high crane there, backhoes, big projects.
I have seen the CTA do other jobs like this, again working like hell under lights at night, lowering materials down off the overpasses on the Kennedy, trying to get a certain length of track done before morning.
The Red Line job is so big that you'd have disruptions for years, not months, if it were tackled like this. Oh -- they are saying $425 million, and that is before overruns...
Me, I just don't understand where the bottomless money well is located. City's still putting in sidewalks and bumps and buildouts and drivearounds and parks and banners and grilles and trees and lights like crazy.
Those reddish-colored "handicapped texture" things on every street corner, the bump-panels inset into the sidewalks, are disintegrating rapidly now -- be careful of the reinforcing wire in them snaring your foot, you'll break an ankle. They are just some really thin, cheap cement cast in a mold, and all the crazy car drivers, halfwits wheeling buses, and 55' trucks dragging their dual-rears diagonally across the street corners are destroying them. Another Vanecko street fixture, another hazard, another endless maintenance job.
Oh -- I was born here, and I never heard of "North Center" until about a year or so ago, after Emanuel became Mayor. Now the city put up a big "North Center" monument-thing on a street corner there. The trendies needed a name for their neighborhood association, I guess.
I am waiting to see -- is there or is there not a limit on the number of snotty, bored, green-haired postmoderns and affluent gay couples taking over one neighborhood after another? It's been mind-boggling for a long time now. Seriously -- are their numbers actually increasing, or is it merely the same people sweeping across the city, "rehabbing," driving up the price of everything, and then "discovering" another neighborhood?
There is another annoying "gateway" thing across Devon Avenue just east of Ridge, "Gateway to Rogers Park/Edgewater."
Freaking banners. "THIS IS A CITY STREET!"
There is so much wonderfulness it's going to kill us all from tripping over it, let alone paying for it.
something we can actually agree on. can't shut the mofo down fast enough! now just re-route the state st buses and whoala
Anonymous said...
Boy, the more I read SCC the more I feel like I'm reading that embarrassingly racist OTHER blog. Lots of law abiding, tax paying black folks are also going to experience major transportation headaches trying to get to their downtown and northside jobs too.
6/05/2012 12:19:00 AM
what an idiot you are black man! no one said anything remotely racist. what a big surprise you angle it that way, ha. scc is a factual blog with an extremely large following. there is such a large following because scc does not lie or embellish just to get attention. if the truth hurts so much then go back to your fantasy land where up is down, right is left and black is white.
Anonymous said...
SCC, why is the first deputy restricting time due from 14Jun till 18Jun?
Another "emergency"??
6/05/2012 12:04:00 AM
PR Fest in Humboldt Park....
"...perhaps you'd like to justify casting around accusations of racism where there is none, thereby contribution to the lack of honest discourse. In an effort to correct that "problem," please address the almost near unanimity of crime on the Red Line by minority youth against primarily minority victims in something resembling a mature and logical explanation."
What a lot of people fail to realize is, the problem isn't race per se, it's culture.
Just as Chicago/Cook County/Illinois government has bred a culture of criminality and corruption, a culture of criminality exists within many minority neighborhoods.
That's not to say that everyone within that culture is bad, but you cannot ignore the numbers.
The issue isn't even if they are all bad anyway, the issue is what to do about it; both in the minority neighborhoods and the corrupt government that we here in Chicago experience daily.
rb
Oh look!
The March Food Stamp Caseload Report just rolled in.
http://frac.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/snapdata2012_march.pdf
The number of people on food stamp subsidies in Illinois rose from 1,831,898 in Feb to 1,856,202 in March. A 1.3% increase or roughly 25,000 more people.
Must be all those living wage jobs Chicago is creating huh?
"The impact on the iPhone robberies alone is estimated to be a drop of at least 54%.
Wildings? An astonishing 63% reduction over the course of the summer of 2013.
If the City manages to shut down the Green Line, we could be talking about drops of 92% or better."
You owe me a keyboard...I snorted scotch out on it.
Is there a thread about this new "SAT" team yet.How many PO's will be in it? Im not interested in it just wondering.....
99% of all robberies committed on the CTA are committed by..........
Tell me I'm wrong 6/05/2012 12:19:00 AM! Tell me I'm wrong.
The Irish, Jews, Polish, Italian, Chinese, Vietnamese and countless other people came to America and assimilated into useful, productive members of society. That's all we want. One Nation.
@Anonymous, for what it's worth, North Center was an official community area name designated in the 1920s. See:
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1760.html
"North Center" - what a bunch of crap. The Heart of Chicago motel is classic, even though Rogers Park (a little further north) is a real dump now.
BTW, the Amish youth/Apple pickers can't take the Red or Green lines if they're closed.
"Nobody" complained about the Green Line's two year (1994-1996) rehab, with only the X23 Washington Express and X38 Indiana Express as "substitute" routes.
Hey 6/05/2012 02:06:00 AM, apparently you are a do-nothing. Look it up, it's not a rumor. Most of CTA Special evaporated this month. They must have known something.
-"animals" ridding the Blue Line?
-shutting down the Red Line and Green Line, we could get downtown back to the way it should be?
Stop hiding behind vague remarks and state what you really mean.
People have no perspective on history. The very people who point out and judge others, are the very people whose parents and parents parents were judged and lived in less desirable areas of Chicago less than 100 years ago.
From the 1890s through 1968, south side travel consisted of bus routes and/or the Englewood or Jackson Park 'L' rapid transit lines, which terminated at 63rd St.
At the various 63rd St. stops, one connected to various Chicago Surface Lines (CSL) [succeeded by CTA], South Suburban Safeway Lines (SSL)or (southwest) Suburban Transit buses.
In 1969, the above mentioned commutes changed, with the debut of the Dan Ryan 'L' terminating at 95th St. Thus, 32 blocks (or 4 miles) were shaved off the bus commute.
If the 1890s-1968 commuters could travel long routes, then surely the 5 month 2013 commuters can do the same via CTA and Pace.
"Obama coming to town 16-18 Jun"
He's coming back AGAIN??
Wasn't he just here?
SCC, why is the first deputy restricting time due from 14Jun till 18Jun?
Another "emergency"??
6/05/2012 12:04:00 AM
Yeah ... it's called "Puerto Rican Fest."
When is "Guam Fest", "Virgin Islands Fest" or fests for any of the other U.S. Possessions?
I mean, we own them. Shouldn't there be a party?
Hey 6/5 at 10:18, are you a cop? Answer me this: What is the deal with those candy-selling kids? I always figured there were no "teams" involved but never looked into it or saw anyone else look into it. How do you know this for sure is a scam and do the kids just pocket the money or is there some crooked idiot behind it, pimping the kids out and supplying them with the candy?
-"animals" ridding the Blue Line?
"Stop hiding behind vague remarks and state what you really mean."
--6/05/2012 10:21:00 PM
You know EXACTLY what the poster "really means."
"Animals" hardly qualifies as a "vague remark."
"People have no perspective on history. The very people who point out and judge others, are the very people whose parents and parents parents were judged and lived in less desirable areas of Chicago less than 100 years ago."
The ancient, pathetic "Just As Bad As" defense.
No. Sorry. I do not, and my parents and grandparents did not, travel downtown to steal from stores in huge screaming, cursing packs and attack passers-by and kill elderly people by pushing them down a flight of concrete stairs while escaping with some snatched object.
Reset.
Try again.
...and be careful tossing those centuries around. Someone might, say, compare the Englewood of 100 years ago with what it is today.
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"From the 1890s through 1968, south side travel consisted of bus routes and/or the Englewood or Jackson Park 'L' rapid transit lines, which terminated at 63rd St."
--6/06/2012 05:14:00 AM
Boy, I know. Just remembering a LONG time back, as a kid living north/working south or vice versa, IC, Jackson Park line, No. 5 Jeffery Express...some of them trips seemed to TAKE from 1890 to 1968! >grin< Get preached at mightily in the morning, shell game going in the rear seat, get rocked coming back in the afternoon. I don't know how that safety glass held. It was the old stuff with the heavy flexible plastic sandwiched in the middle. War zones.
There is no question that this will be a five-month royal pain in the butt for working people, and they have my sympathy. Once they get it done, they say it may shave 20 minutes off ride time, get rid of all the "slow orders" put on rough track.
SCC's "silliness and sarcasm" has a great deal of truth in it; the "poor impulse control" crowd is unlikely to have the perseverance to ride all kinds of detours, transfers, etc. and may find something else to tear up for a while.
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