Wednesday, February 11, 2004
The slogan emblazeoned on the CTA's new Chicago Card Plus and in-car advertisements is rather presumptuous: "On-Time. Clean. Safe. Friendly." The CTA is exactly none of those things. (Well, it's usually safe during daylight.) Why overextend? Why not just say: "Gets you where you need to go" and leave it at that?
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