![]() Most of those trips are on-time and uneventful-but with a system this large, complex and busy, problems can occur and a delay at just the wrong time can affect the commute of thousands of people at once. Suffice it to say, we run a lot of service. Together, o ur vehicles, on an average weekday, travel the distance of almost a full trip to the moon and back! □□□ To provide this many rides, we need to provide a lot of service: ‘L’ trains travel about 233,906 miles on a typical weekday (about seven times the circumference of the Earth at the equator!). Our more than 1,800 buses travel over 161,192 miles on a typical weekday (almost another six times around the Earth). If that were a city population, it'd be in the seventh-largest city in the United States (or, in other words, that’s more rides than if the entire population of San Antonio took a ride on one of our buses or trains in a single day). ![]() ![]() On an average weekday, the CTA provides over 1.5 million rides on its buses and trains. The majority of CTA rides are on-time and uneventful, but sometimes service can be disrupted. ![]()
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