![]() ![]() ![]() They wanted the 85 to possibly run all the way down to Roosevelt instead of ending at Harrison. As I recall at the time, the residents there were asking for a reverse of what the CTA has now provided. Which is why I think more people were asking for a more direct connection to the 85 over the 91 even at least from far back as 1990 when my family was living in the Austin neighborhood during the early '90s. It would seem that the connection to the 85 instead of 91 would be simple to explain, since 85 operates longer than 91 does and would probably make for a better chance of someone getting from south to north and vice versa. UPDATE: I corrected my post here to state that the original plan was to change the west terminal to Roosevelt/Austin via Austin, Fillmore, Mason not Mayfield as I originally typed. About the only thing that was correct those first days of the change was the new schedule reflecting the Central/Harrison terminal. The website also had a corrected notice posted by the second week after the official change. Interestingly enough, the announcement system that first week was programmed to say 'Route 12 Roosevelt to Austin.' This was corrected by the second week. I thought it was just a change for certain rush hour trips at first, but I noticed that all WB buses had this destination beyond rush hour. I myself didn't notice it until that Monday afternoon when I boarded a WB bus and the sign said '12 TO CENTRAL/HARRISON'. There was just an abrupt change and to a different terminal than the site mentioned. There also were no passenger notices on the bus stop signs that the terminal was changing. This wasn't corrected until that Wednesday (10/1). Bustracker had the route mapped as ending at Roosevelt/Mason. This brought up a discussion between Busjack and I in the Bustracker thread that the final and current form of the terminal change was last minute. 28 and the site was saying, during the first week of the change that the buses would no longer pull into the terminal and continue on to Roosevelt/Austin ending via a loop on Roosevelt, Austin, Fillmore, and Mason (their original plan apparently). I do wonder how I missed seeing anything about the route change on CTA's site.Īlso as for the route change notice on the CTA site, CTA itself caused a bit of confusion because the route change went through on Sept.
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