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  • Date: August 06, 2008
    Spies Like Us: South Sider Double-Oh-Fo'

    Posted Aug. 6, 2008 at 2 p.m.

    Thank you, you and especially you for your exuberant and impassioned reaction to the new CTA Spy program launched by yours truly.  This new public transit program -- think "The Wire" meets CTA's Secret Shopper program -- is aimed at uncovering all that is going on along the system.  Our first spy comes to us from the South Side and he is a regular and insightful blog contributor.

    Put your hands -- or typing fingers-- together for Agent Double-Oh-Fo'....who will bring us his observations and findings on a more permanent and prominent basis in this space.  Here's more about my first CTA spy:

    Bkray_5

    Name: B K Ray
    Code Name: Double-Oh-Fo (004)
    Age:49
    Neighborhood: Chatham
    Frequent Rider Of:79, 4,87,28,75,7,126, Red Line, 3, 151...
    What I Loathe about CTA:Missing a bus bunch... (If you see five buses coming when you only been waiting  two or three minutes, it is a wonderful thing, but if four buses just passed you, it is over.
    What I Love About CTA: The SuperTransfer (aka The Chicago Card Plus, monthly pass)

    Hey, don't be jealous. Just join us. Send me an e-mail with the same info as Agent Double-Oh-Fo' shared and a photo if you are so inclined.  Then, once you are sworn in, you can start sending me your CTA spy logs. 

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