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Article: Riders find the going slow on Skokie Swift substitutes
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 9, 1991
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Some Skokie Swift riders were not happy with having to take the
bus Monday after the CTA shut down the rapid transit line to complete
track replacement work this summer.
"This isn't so good. It's taking more than 10 minutes longer,"
said Mary Herndon of Chicago.
She was among the commuters who had to switch to a shuttle bus
to get from Howard Street to the Skokie Swift station on Dempster
Street in Skokie.
The Skokie trains normally make the five-mile trip in eight
minutes. It took 20 minutes for express shuttle buses to travel a
six-mile route.
"It probably was worse this morning," Herndon said. "I live on
the South Side and was a little confused going through the Loop
because they ...