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Slippery When Wet

Written by Peter Schuh   
Thursday, 11 September 2008 23:46

Just one day after I wrote my first post on the CTA here in Chicago I was exiting one of the shiny new stations that the CTA has been blowing my hard-earned dollars on. Apparently, the station is too shiny. It was a rainy day and I was descending from the train platform. As soon as I hit the bottom of the steps I saw they guy right in front of me nearly do a face-plant on the flashy marbled floor.

More than one hundred years in the mass transit business and the CTA cannot even select the right flooring. Concrete may not be all that pretty but at least it’s not a lawsuit magnet.

The coup de grâce came as I was exiting the station. The attendant began shouting over the public address system: “Passengers enterring the station be careful. The floors are slippery when wet.”

Slippery When Wet

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