Awesome video as always!  Let's hope management realizes how packed the Pink Line gets nowadays so that they can run 6 car trains during rush hour.  It's always a pleasure making videos with you!

The student of the school that was granted the right to name the line said   "Everyone is interested when something is pink. You always want to check it out". I must admit this is right!

I work at cta, and the commonly cited reason for the short trains on the pink line is due to the high number of grade crossings. Since the pink line crosses so many streets, including cicero ave, which is a major N-S corridor, they want to minimize time spent holding up traffic. Since the line doesn't necessitate larger trains, they run short ones to limit crossing times.

Maybe I am feeling homesick, but these videos always make me so happy

Very nostalgic to see TRA content in Chicago again it's really good

i remember being on the red line late at night with only 2 cars. So crowded and people having to stand.  That was uncalled for.

They did a contest on naming the pink line back when it opened, I was one of the students in the contest

I brought the 4 car train issue up with CTA management when I was waiting on Morgan and was approached by one of the big wigs. I was told that this is not a goal due to ridership levels. Ridership would have to double in order for the Pink like to get 6 or 8 car trains all day. The only goal that CTA said was achievable was to have a pink line train average every 10 minutes 7 days a week, but the 4 car trains will remain for the foreseeable future. Per CTA it’s the 2nd least utilized line next to Yellow. Ridership on the short Evanston branch of the purple line averages more riders than the entire pink line outside the loop. This is per CTA management. I hate being packed like sardines on the Pink during the rush period and having to wait 10-15 minutes for the next packed train. Some days are better than others, but it’s something they need to look into.

They need 8 car trains for everyday usage. Rush hour is quite packed nowadays

Riding trains for the first time this year to see a bunch of college football/basketball stadiums around the country and discovering this channel was perfect. Love the depth of these videos. The depth in particular is what makes these so compelling to watch. These totally could've been 30-minute episodes on cable tv that I would've watched religiously growing up in the 2000s.

Alright: So what I’m getting from this video is that the Pink Line is basically the G Line in NYC but elevated for longer.

I think I’ve seen that video with the 8-car pink line trains. One time I’ve been on one with six cars after attending a march for our lives protest. It must have been one of the reasons they had that many train cars and it was on my mom’s birthday one year.

I live about 4 blocks down from 54th Cermak stop. Crazy how back then I used the train to go to unity back when I was still going to to school right next to the stop and now im using it to go to work in the loop. Man time flies but I love the good early travel of the cta

I remember it as the Douglas/Milwaukee "B" train. Also mostly 2 car trains except for peak periods.

Other pink-colored lines: While not called the Pink Line, the Disneyland Resort Line in Hong Kong is colored pink on maps! The Disneyland Resort Line opened in 2005 for the opening of HKDL and has two stations, Sunny Bay and Disneyland Resort. Sunny Bay has a futuristic gateway look while Disneyland Resort station has Victorian-style architecture. These two have very different designs because it was done to make passengers feel like they are travelling through time between the fantasy world of the Disneyland Resort and the city (the jingles you hear in the train's announcements reflect this too). The line was also the first on the MTR to be automated, the South Island Line would become the second line eleven years later! Bangkok MRT's Pink Line is a monorail that opened in 2023, it's designed to link the northern areas of Bangkok and Nonthaburi. Shanghai Metro's Line 13 is pink-colored on maps and initially opened between Madang Road and Shibo Avenue in 2010 for Expo 2010, and has expanded since then. Besides the World Expo Museum, it serves important stations like West Nanjing Road interchange, Jinshajiang Road interchange for East China Normal University and Global Harbor, Shanghai Natural History Museum, and Site of the First CPC National Congress · Xintiandi interchange.

On the Jaipur Metro in India, Jaipur has a Pink Line because Jaipur is known as the Pink City thanks to its architecture. Pink was once the color of hospitality, and when Queen Victoria's son Albert Edward (who would become King Edward VII) visited Jaipur in 1876, Maharaja Sawai Ram Singh II had the whole city painted pink to welcome the royals. In 1877, a law was passed stating any future buildings in Jaipur had to be painted the same color, and this law has remained! The Jaipur Metro's Pink Line opened in 2015 and connects Mansarovar with the Jaipur Junction railway station, Sindhi Camp interstate bus terminal, and Heritage Sites like Hawa Mahal, Jantar Mantar, and the City Palace.

Very nice! The next time I get an opportunity, I'll go and ride the Pink Line again. 😊

My dad worked for CTA at 54th shop when it was still the Blue Line.

Back in 2021, when Riotfest was being held, the Pink Line was heavenly bottled as CTA probably didn't expected the festival to have so much people that year at Douglass Park, they still only used 4 car trains for the Pink at that time and made getting people back to where they needed to go much slower, the year after they planned ahead and brought over 6-8 car trains to help with movement out of 2022 Riotfest when it was at Douglass Park.

Since Summer Smash and RiotFest were moved to Seatgeek Stadium in Bridgeview this year, the Pink line will sadly wont see much use to get poeple home, i will howveer be praying for the Orange line to see how they will do

15:56 Ah classic Chicago backround noises of the city 😂. Thanks for the great and informative video as always Thom! 👍

Very enjoyable. I might be from Boston, and hence a MBTA fan, but I always enjoy visiting Chicago for the CTA. The fact that there is a CTA Santa is just amazing.