Some of my friends that started with CTA as rookies did rookie time at North Park although I know one who was able to get in at Forest Glen. I also don't know if rookies have much choice where they work. Mr CTA can attest to what a driver thinks about when bidding. Straight runs in the morning will tend to go first.
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I believe the main thing for senior drivers is weekend and holidays off. Usually if a rookie ends up with a split shift run or runs, either a veteran driver has called off for the day or is on vacation or leave. While longer and more rigorous training may help, it won't do see away with rookie drivers getting difficult runs. Considering that FG and NP are both north of Foster, there are sure plenty more NP routes that do. I thought the definition was that they entered the central business district.
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Plus as you say all the rookies can't go on 11 or 96 in NP's case. But getting back to the central topic, they do need to do a better job at stringent training if they are going to have the rookies and other less senior operators on the hardest routes and can't get the union to budge much on getting a more even balance between seniority and experience against route difficulty. Kedzie has most of the truly downtown routes in the strictest sense. Similar argument for 77th and 103rd from the opposite end. From CTA's point of view when it comes to the NP example for instance, they would probably easily say those routes in question are more north side routes than they are downtown since those routes going running downtown don't generally stay within the boundaries of downtown. Valid point on the difficulty of routes and the correlation of the seniority on the pick system, but we also have to remember CTA routes generally don't operate in a bubble. FG has some of these (56, 77, 81), but also a lot of light ones. NP is mostly downtown, even though it isn't, same for 77th and 103rd), or are heavy for other reasons (9 and 49 out of 74th, 66 and 74 out of C). I don't know about what choice anyone has on a system pick, but basically only FG has a number of routes that are not difficult the other garages either have routes that run downtown (i.e.
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