Are we supposed to slip onto the tracks and just grab onto the train? Is it safe for us to ride to work clutching the windshield wipers? How much does salt cost? What’s Dorval Carter’s salary again? Will dignity ever return to the CTA? Should we use one of the hollowed-out insane screaming passengers as a sled? Who has salt? When does accountability happen?
After a few deaths, they will form a committee to go through a lengthy process to evaluate that they have done nothing wrong, and some politician will try to convince you salt should be privately provided by your employer. Then they will spend another couple years drafting SALT - Solidarity Agreement for Lazy Travelers, where companies will be subsidized to provide you salt at an outrageous markup, and result in a complicated legal scheme for employees looking to get to work safely.
They call this the American Dream.
I lived in Uptown when the CTA owned the wilson yards. They never shoved the sidewalk so all their customers had to struggle through mounds of icy snow in order to get to the train but… at least the platform was shoveled.
Every day the CTA finds a new low to sink to.