[il-talk] Paratransit messed up again

[Robert Hansen]

I remember back in the day, I lived in Lincoln Nebraska. Their Transit System Grand 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. once an hour, and it hardly ever went anywhere. Now I live in Chicago for almost 25 years, and I live on reliable bus service and I live within at least the proximity of one mile from a train. I understand that not everyone lives in the city for a variety of reasons, but it certainly has helped me a lot in the past several years to live with public transportation. Yes I can pay a little more housing cost, but it's worth it to me. I have that piece of mind and that freedom to go where I want and how I want.

sincerely,

Robert A Hansen

www.wzrdchicago.org
WZRD 88.3 FM CHICAGO

Sent on my Virgin Mobile Phone.

On Jun 2, 2016 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 
> > 
> > Sent from my iPhone 
> > 
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