Many CTA and Metra parking in the city and suburbs have been blocked by the usual number of cars today, officials said.
This is an indication that commuters who are not involved in the day had decided to use public transportation instead of driving the entire trip.
And it is a sign that commuters, railway stations today, gone tomorrow planned in advance at home earlier and get their cars from piles of snow tonight.
The beginning and the evening peak will be strengthened, amid heavy snow and strong winds, is a particularly difficult challenge, transit officials say.
Metra plans for additional service in the early afternoon from its terminal downtown offers on several of its lines to accommodate people. But this means that some of his regular evening traffic were canceled. Click for details.Metra warned against "delays or interruptions of service" because of the storm.
South Shore has its twelve o'clock train cars leave Chicago today. Affected are the Middle-Train 9 trains departing Chicago at 12:38 clock, starting at 02.35 clock train 109 and 209 trains departing from 15.15 clock
The CTA is running longer trains to accommodate drivers leaving work early. Normally, after rush hour, CTA has reduced the number of cars in each train.
Meanwhile plow truck CTA bus garages were used to keep channels open to the street, officials said.
Some buses that are stored outdoors, will run all night to ensure they are ready for service in the morning rush hour Wednesday.
Global Positioning System technology to facilitate the fleets of bus and train.
The CTA Control Center, 120 N. Racine Ave. Dispatchers to monitor all trains on the eight CTA rail lines and GPS to 2,000 of the agency bus lane.
Keeping track of a campaign around the clock is free of snow and ice.
There are several scenarios to avoid worst-case transit officials hope. These include broken rails or damaged, the loss of electricity for the trains, tracks and car breakdowns.
CTA officials say they remain potential problems by concentrating limited funds for capital improvements in recent years for critical components.
Many areas have been rejected by the slow replacement of old rails and sleepers.
The 2600 series trucks, is one of the oldest in the fleet CTA underwent a major overhaul and are more reliable than in past winters, "said spokeswoman Noelle Gaffney CTA.
The trains are equipped with scrapers and de-icing sprayers worked all night, officials said.
All CTA trains are equipped with snow plow blades, snow off the tracks clear. The Agency will also run eight-car trains during the storm on track to be as clear as possible, officials said.
On railway lines equipped that do not work 24 hours, trains combat ice through nozzles spray de-icing work at night to prevent snow from building on the slopes and avoid the electrified third rail icing.
CTA crews to clear the service of railroad tracks, switches clear of snow and ice structure, and the positions of emergency access. Rail Switch heater on, to reduce ice formation.
CTA also has a diesel snow fighters in its arsenal. The locomotive has a snow brush at one end and a fan, on the other. It is widely used in railway tracks, but can be sent on the road, if necessary, officials said.
Meanwhile, wrap it in two Chicago airports is extremely limited operations this afternoon after more than a thousand flights were canceled. Airlines on Monday began canceling hundreds of flights in the coming days to a timely response to initial forecasts of a snowstorm.
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