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Documenting the disaster that is the Chicago Transit Authority. #CTAFail #CTAFails . Not affiliated with the CTA.

Chicago, IL
Joined December 2012
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
@CTAFails
CTA Fails
2 years
Too cold to fly. 🥶
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3 years
Dispose of a body, but make it casual.
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@CTAFails
CTA Fails
3 years
Good morning to this legend and no one else.
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3 years
Twizzed out.
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2 years
Nice.
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2 years
Cause of death: Waiting for the Blue Line.
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2 years
Tree’s big day in the city
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@CTAFails
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3 years
DON’T PLAY CHICKEN WITH THE BLUE LINE 📸 IG user ethrun
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2 years
[ SERVICE NOTICE ] We’re getting into the Halloween spirit, every train is a ghost train now.
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3 years
CTA win.
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3 years
Waiting for the train.
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2 years
HOT TRACK SUMMER
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CTA Fails
3 years
Is this just like free or what
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3 years
DON’T RUIN THE CHRISTMAS TRAIN FOR US, IT IS OUR ONE NICE THING. (Looking at you, suburbanites.)
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@CTAFails
CTA Fails
3 years
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ ⬜️⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️ ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Not Wordle, just you standing in a cloud of cigarette smoke on the blue line
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@CTAFails
CTA Fails
2 years
Y’all out there pointing out problems, while this one’s bringing SOLUTIONS.
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2 years
Two hands, two smokes. It’s called math.
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3 years
Well that’s gonna be a delay.
@faidabae
Fai🧚🏾‍♀️
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@CTAFails
CTA Fails
1 year
46 minutes between trains. Not bad, CTA!
@ronythebikeczar
R o n y
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"world class city"
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@CTAFails
CTA Fails
2 years
Alfred working overtime to get that goddamn Batwing fixed.
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3 years
That’s right, buckeyes, fuck around and find out!
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3 years
Well, we can’t all be Shakespeare. 🤷‍♂️
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3 years
Mistakes were made.
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2 years
Nice marmot.
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3 years
You guys you guys you guys stay off the tracks
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3 years
The angle of this tho 🤯
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2 years
Actual footage of a Brown Line train.
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3 years
Pizza is the mother of invention.
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2 years
The Red Line fucks.
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3 years
Nothing matters anymore.
@yaboidrakewood
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3 years
Since when did the @cta introduce a smoking car? Seriously what the actual fuck? This car is smoky as hell and more people keep boarding with lit cigs and shit… @CTAFails #cta (Green Line, Car 5116, westbound 1:00 am) (typo in prev. Tweet)
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@CTAFails
CTA Fails
2 years
All I want for Christmas is a train. Any train. Just one train. JUST ONE TRAIN, WHERE ARE THE TRAINS.
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3 years
Oh.
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3 years
Wait so is this not a road?
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2 years
Finally, someone’s trying to clean up the CTA.
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3 years
Can’t. Stop. Laughing.
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2 years
If you don’t have to switch cars three times to find a car where people aren’t smoking, is it even the Red Line?
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2 years
The CTA is for the birds.
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2 years
Look the Blue Line has to run somewhere, and it’s not going to be on the Blue Line.
@cantbeloco
cantbeloco
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@CTAFails when is my Red Blue line train coming ?
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3 years
Buffets. Are. Back.
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2 years
Transit turducken.
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3 years
“Fuck around and find out.” - pigeons
@tryingtotiedye
Courtney
3 years
This bird just flew right into the train and took my seat
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3 years
“Does this fungus look normal to you, complete stranger?”
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2 years
NOT A FAIL, JUST AN ABSOLUTE ICON 📸 @ayodannyboy
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@CTAFails
CTA Fails
4 years
Really digging the new collab between @cta and @shedd_aquarium . h/t @harvblain
@CHICAGOCREATUR1
CHICAGOCREATURES
4 years
Y’all still don’t wanna stay home? 👹
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2 years
Feel your feelings, friends 🥰
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2 years
It’s okay, he had a reservation. 🎥 @iwasntfamous
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4 years
Good morning to this bus driver and no one else.
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@CTAFails
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3 years
The Brown Line, but make it cancelled. 😵‍💫 The entire population of Chicago waiting for a shuttle bus due to a fire at Belmont. BUCKLE UP.
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3 years
The trains are hell.
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3 years
When you’re horny, but also a bat.
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@CTAFails
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2 years
Look, you can request a stop on the 22, but you’re gonna have to earn it.
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3 years
Just some casual full-volume keyboard practice on the brown line.
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4 years
Brown Line status.
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3 years
[Permanent Delays] The red line has died of dysentery.
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3 years
Why, where do you keep yours?
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2 years
Same, cup. Same.
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1 year
The CTA is no picnic. 📸 julz_bandanna on Instagram
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2 years
Perfect. No notes.
@tracyswartz
tracyswartz
2 years
I mean, it’s not even the Wilson stop
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3 years
Look, it’s March Madness, how else are you gonna watch on a bus, literally no other way, calm down.
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3 years
THE TYRANNY OF SHOES IS OVER.
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2 years
Tough hit on Cicero.
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I’m starting to think the CTA is….not good?
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2 years
“We should really do something about that massive pile of shit.”
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3 years
Just watched a man on a moving brown line train stand up, turn to the window, and piss right on the wall, if you’re wondering how @cta is doing.
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2 years
Caution.
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2 years
Respect, ghost train.
@DoctorSadieL
Sadie LaPonsie, MD
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5 years
A lot of dick customers these days. #CTAFail #CTAFails
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2 years
Meta af
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@CTAFails
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2 years
The Red Line is the Miller Lite of trains
@PalomaStarr
Paloma
2 years
See, the Red Line isn’t so bad! I just got handed a beer on it! 😅 I was going to tag @CTAFails but I think this is a win! Lol
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@CTAFails
CTA Fails
11 months
boy, lot to unpack here.
@ChicagoCritter
CHICAGO CRITTER
11 months
Buddy got his ass whopped on the train by a bunch of girls. #cta #chicagoscanner
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3 years
The Red Line fucks.
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3 years
In case you were wondering if @cta could go fuck itself any harder.
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Uhhhhhh.
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3 years
How do we make an appointment?
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Boy there’s a lot to unpack here
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3 years
“Thank you for riding the CTA, the Malort of transit.”
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2 years
Say cheese!
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1 year
Bus friends!
@CTomaszkiewicz
ctomaszkiewicz.bsky.social
1 year
I just literally saw three 3 buses right behind each other. @cta When we ask for more buses this is not what we mean. @ctaaction @CTAFails @ChicagosMayor
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1 year
Well, that’s not where that goes.
@ChiScammer
CHI Scammer
1 year
Orange Line Pulaski 📍 🤡 @cta @CTAFails
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@CTAFails
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4 years
And now, the @cta ‘L’ map, except all eight lines have decided to end their misery by just plunging strait into the lake.
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@CTAFails
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2 years
Train can’t be late if you don’t know when the train is due
@BenHenke1
Ben Henke
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CTA fixed the late train problem at the Chicago stop. @cta @CTAFails @LoriLightfoot
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3 years
Welcome home!
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PIPE DREAM.
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3 years
No, YOU’RE a safety hazard!
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3 years
Sooooo… dead body or….??
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3 years
Protecting the train from orcs. Thank you for your service.
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3 years
Conditions are so gross that the train itself is throwing up.
@mynaameiz
Nik
3 years
@cta @CTAFails great job at keeping the trains clean etc etc.... 🤨
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2 years
Normal stuff.
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2 years
Scheduled for every 7-10 minutes at that time of day. Don’t worry, everything is running normally.
@chicagobars
Chicago Bars
2 years
At 3:15pm in the Loop on a weekday. 🤦‍♂️
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3 years
Chicago is nature’s refrigerator.
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5 years
Current status:
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3 years
When suburbanites come to the city. 😏 📸 @merckatcentral
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4 years
Oh my god, WEAR A MASK.
@soChiNYgirl
Aamina 🩷
4 years
The CTA strikes again! How much you wanna bet it’s the redline?! 😂😂 @bookworme7787 @cta @CTAFails
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3 years
THEY GOT BARTMAN, NOOOOOOO!!! 😭
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3 years
Boy, these city horses have really gotten soft.
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@CTAFails
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2 years
What do you mean, doing nothing? They put up an orange sign.
@ASSanineFool
No Thanks
2 years
Just the @cta doing nothing about this flooding for the last two weeks, gets deeper & deeper causing serious problems for passengers @CTAFails #ctasucks
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@CTAFails
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Riding the CTA can be hell. So we fixed the rail map! Welcome to the HEL’L’ train.
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