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#1 CNJRoss

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Posted 21 February 2018 - 09:31 AM

WLS-TV Chicago, IL 2/20/18:

CTA color-coded lines celebrate 25 years

 

 

CHICAGO (WLS) --The Chicago L celebrates 25 years of color-coded rail lines Wednesday. In 1993, CTA debuted its red, blue, brown, purple, green and yellow lines to make life simpler.
 

"The color being the name could be carried... through visual motifs on the signs, on the trains, and in the stations," explained Graham Garfield, the CTA's General Manager of Customer Information and unofficial historian.

As vintage CTA maps will show, train lines "were either directional like north-south route," or referenced local neighborhoods, he added.

 

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Posted 21 February 2018 - 12:58 PM

A generation has passed, and by now the public is used to the color designations and the resulting routings that were changed 25 years ago to match the passenger demand on the outer segments of what are now the Red and Green Lines.   And the colors are there to stay.... unlike the much newer Los Angeles system where the color designations have outlived their usefulness.   A once proposed circumferential Circle Line would have violated the color theme, but I am sure that internally it would have had its own color.  And there was once talk of transitizing the Metra Electric system, giving it the Silver Line designation.



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