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Posted by WillD on Sat Sep 1 02:00:04 2012, in response to Eeek! Riders React to CTA 5000 Series, posted by SLRT on Mon Aug 27 11:37:37 2012. I finally had the opportunity to grab a quick ride around the loop on a Pink line 5000 series car today and I have to say I was kind of disappointed. They are wonderfully quiet, and the interior LED displays are large and easy to read. The color LED displays make an enormous difference in the ability to discern a Pink line train from a Green Line train (especially since the Pink line trains all seem to be older, monochromatic LED display trains while the Green is a mix). But after spending the week on Purple line trains with Red line strip maps, and even the odd Brown line train with a Green Line strip map I was kind of hoping the CTA would have sprung for something like FIND, or at least a more flexible strip map system like WMATA's old arrangement. The lack of something akin to FIND, particularly when a train signed as a Red Line train will not list all Purple line stops south of Belmont, is a major and IMHO unnecessary inconvenience to passengers.Like Mr Follett I didn't find much fault with the seating arrangement. I am not much of a fan of the all-transverse seating of the other CTA stock as it makes anything more than eight standees per car a nightmare for ingress/egress, but I do wish they'd left some transverse seating between the doors and car ends. |
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