[il-talk] Paratransit messed up again

[Kelly Pierce]

I resolved this problem by living near transit, specifically a train
station.  I pay higher housing costs and significantly more in taxes
but I have reliable L service that takes me to work on time.  No late
buses or faulty paratransit connections.

Kelly

On 6/1/16, Lin H. via il-talk <il-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Not the kind of story that I want to hear the day before I have to take the
>
> Paratransit!    Hope they will be on time!   Well, if there's  anyone that
> can get things going by telling a supervisor, it's you!  Good luck!
> Linda
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leslie Hamric via il-talk
> Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2016 9:25 PM
> To: Iltalk
> Cc: Leslie Hamric
> Subject: [il-talk] Paratransit messed up again
>
> Hi all. Just wanted to give everyone an update. My job is going well so far.
>
> Paratransit however, seems to go in spurts. They do well for a while and
> then, there's glitches. One time, I was tuna half hours late to work because
>
> of them. Listen to what they did today when they were supposed to pick me up
>
> from the palatine train station and take me home. To make a long story
> short, they never showed up, no call, no nothing. I waited till almost 6
> o'clock and then I finally called. You know what their excuse was? There
> excuse was that they had a new driver and the driver totally forgot to pick
>
> me up. And then, they told me I would've had to wait an hour and a half to
> two hours for them to get a bus to me. There was no way I was going to wait
>
> a minute longer.  So I called Andy and he and Michael came and got me. I
> didn't have to wait that long for them. Of course, if they were not
> available I would've taken Uber  but frankly, I didn't want to spend that
> kind of money tonight either. How many of you had this kind of experience
> what did you do to get it resolved? I will definitely be bringing this
> incident to supervisors attention tomorrow.
> Leslie
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
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