Transit system is Daley's first stop in Beijing

Tory II wrote:

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Tell us what your property taxes are. We already know your sales taxes (the highest in the US).

Snaggle Tooth wrote:

The London Tube better? Sure, that's because those Limeys funneled all of their money out of the dental industry into transportation.
There's always a trade-off.

aba wrote:

<quoted text>Significantly lower than yours....Chicago has relatively low property taxes especially compared to it suburban brethren...try again

DCL wrote:

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You are correct. But Chicago tradition (and, CTA protocol--look it up) calls it "L."

Spector wrote:

I could care two sh-ts what

aba wrote:

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Yeah....on my home yesterday I had to dodge machine gun fired from boarded up & smoking store fronts, I fought off at least 2 dozen knife and axe wielding attackers w/ my copy of the NY times, I crawled on my belly down the block on which I live because the sniper fire was so intense, I almost was taken out as knives and molatov cocktails wizzed over my head willy-nilly......
Wait...that's not right. I stroll home from the L stop or metra stop everyday enjoying the diversity of the small mom& pop stores that are flourishing in this city. I meander down streets with tidy SFH's and well-kept multi-unit flats, all the time smiling as I realize my commute is about 25 minutes and I have to charge my car with a battery charger as I do not drive it enought to keep the charge up.......
Yeah....Chicago....such a hell-hole. Beautiful architecture, fantastic diversity, great & diverse restaurants often with in several feet of each other, an exceptional waterfront within walking distance, a wonderful sense of community, but enough anonymity to be left alone if you like. Have fun on I-90

Spector wrote:

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I could care two sh-ts what the CTA calls anything. They actually call bus drivers "bus operators," and seem to have simply renamed the historic Skokie Swift simply and only the "Yellow Line," amongst other silly euphamisms for things. Sorry but if some mojo at CTA headquarters one day in 1989 or whatever mistyped it as "L" and it stuck, that just doesn't make it accurate. I'll never, ever forget how in the '90s when I was at DePaul they once put out an ad apologizing for a an A/C fire on the "HOWARD/Dan RYAN LINE" line (lol) as attributable to a A/C air filter that had "evaporated with a great deal of heat and smoke." Apparently those creative folks at the CTA who like calling bus drivers "operators" and the like, also think its fine to explain the word "FIRE" as "rapid evaporation with a great deal of heat and smoke." Maybe they could even try "rapid, uncontrolled oxidation" the next time they want to BS the public about train fires. A "crash" could be even called "rapid deacceleration"!