# Fuck The Chicago Transit Authority In Their Stinky Assholes!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-chicago-transit-authority-in-their-stinky-assholes/299188>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 13, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-chicago-transit-authority-in-their-stinky-assholes/299188 "2005-04-13T21:08:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![jeevmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@jeevmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeevmon)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2005, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-chicago-transit-authority-in-their-stinky-assholes/299188/21 "2005-04-15T14:34:32Z")

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> [@photopat](#):
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> I can never understand the CTA’s logic. It seems to me they should be finding ways to increase service and improve the buses and trains so more people want to use them.

I suspect a reasonable chunk of the problem goes back to how the system was built in the first place - elevated trains and buildings right up against the tracks. It makes it hard to expand the system, since no one wants to approve new tracks in their backyard.

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**Author:** ![milroyj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@milroyj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milroyj)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-chicago-transit-authority-in-their-stinky-assholes/299188/22 "2005-04-16T04:27:14Z")

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> [@Kyla](#):
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> Disrupting the Chicago economy disrupts the entire state, including the hick towns downstate.

My, my, aren’t you quite the little princess. What, pray tell, do you consider a “hick town downstate”? Anything south of I-80? south of 87th St? or is it anything south of Wrigley Field? :dubious:

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