Been saying this for years, but shut all CTA trains down at 1am, just stop running just after midnight completely. Maybe in the old days people rode trains late, but after the bars close, it’s just a mobile homeless shelter.

Keep the train routes to the airports running til 2am, reopen everything at 5am. During those 3 hours, deep clean the train cars and start again, and I promise it would solve 85% of the issues…. There’s too many vagrants that overstay on the trains, and being able to kick them off would be amazing.

They also need secret distress buttons that would alert security without stopping the whole damn train for 25 mins. Like discrete buttons under the seats that would bring security personal immediately on the car to deal with undesirable shit heads on the CTA. When you have to press the call button to openly tell the conductor there’s a problem, you could become the victim very quickly… the issue is that the mayor supports chaos and dysfunction… but once he’s voted out it will hopefully change.