Comments on: Most Retarded Bus Stop Ever

By: Candice

Candice — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:11:50 +0000

At least they shovel the stop. Well, at least the first few feet. If you get out the back door, you’re in a snowbank.

By: george.w

george.w — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:22:26 +0000

“OK, I’m just going to let all these people off in the middle of a busy street, pretty much…”

Probably the same strategists who do quality control for Campbell’s Select Harvest Soup.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:21:27 +0000

I'm pretty sure all turns are legal at that intersection as long as you have a green. Folks going North on Marine have to be able to do a "uturn" to get onto LSD south. Really it would have made more sense to put the stop on the north east corner of the intersection, but I'm sure those folks in the highrise on the south middle corner complained about the extra walk it would cause them.

By: jhimm

jhimm — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:55:46 +0000

makes much more sense. and yes, that would be the much smarter location for that stop.

By: Candice

Candice — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:40:19 +0000

I meant NE. I went to bed 35 seconds after posting this. Soooo tired!

By: jhimm

jhimm — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:23:15 +0000

buses in Chicago SERIOUSLY muck up traffic. i seriously doubt that’s a deciding factor, here. it certainly isn’t anywhere else.

but i have to ask. if the bus is pointed north on Marine to get to the stop in the median, how could it -possibly- then get to the southwest corner of Marine and Montrose? it would have to be going the other way? if it turns west onto Montrose it could stop at the northwest corner (where, according to your map, there is another bus stop), but would be facing the wrong way on the wrong side of the street to stop on the southwest corner. did you mean the southeast corner, beneath the overpass? or does the bus keep going straight north up Marine, in which case you meant the northeast corner?

By: Zap!

Zap! — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:42:37 +0000

I totally was looking at the wrong bus stop…