[il-talk] Paratransit messed up again

[Leslie Hamric]

Kelly, I'm glad you are able to live near public transportation. That's great. I however, am not in a position to move at this time.eslie

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> On Jun 2, 2016, at 6:22 AM, Kelly Pierce via il-talk <il-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
>> 
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