{"id":8141,"date":"2025-07-22T21:11:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/?p=8141"},"modified":"2025-07-22T23:32:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T04:32:14","slug":"public-transportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/07\/public-transportation\/","title":{"rendered":"The only L cherubs take is the train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During weekly field trips, cherubs from around the world flooded Chicago L trains into the city. Some found aspects of Chicago\u2019s public transit system superior to the more famous New York subway. For some, it was an aspect of their daily routine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kieran Blake, of Chicago takes the Red Line to his high school every day. He has witnessed delays due to doors malfunctioning and has seen \u201chuman feces\u201d on the floor. However, Blake remains grateful for the system.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI still appreciate the CTA because it gives me a way to get to and from any place in Chicago without having to drive,\u201d Blake said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fiona Kiely of New York takes New York\u2019s M86 bus to school every day and the 6 train to downtown New York regularly. She said she wishes New York would adopt the efficiency of tapping instead of swiping a card to enter the station.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI really enjoyed the way of getting into the station,\u201d Kiely said. \u201cThe tapping worked very nicely. Whereas in New York, we have a tapping system now, but the main system is the Metro card, which I think Chicago\u2019s completely fazed out.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the train, Kai Shah of Burlingame, California, makes connections with commuters. During his second L train trip, Shah approached a man in a Vanderbilt sweatshirt and talked to him about college sports.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cPeople let out their thoughts by talking,\u201d Shah said. \u201cYou never know if someone&#8217;s having a crappy day, you just talk to them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cherubs experience the Chicago L train together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":8372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,341,18],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[504],"class_list":["post-8141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city","category-front-page-city","category-going-to-chicago"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":504,"user_id":230,"is_guest":0,"slug":"carahuang","display_name":"Cara Huang","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/12287590112e32511d0445edd7a2c09df399ae8be3827636dc9cea8024fba41f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Huang","first_name":"Cara","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8141"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10198,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141\/revisions\/10198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8141"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=8141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}