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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Samantha Callender | WBEZ

CTA’s grime-fighting campaign is overdue, riders say

A train arrives at the CTA Blue Line Clark and Lake Staton in the Loop on Sunday. The CTA has launched a “Goodbye, Grime” campaign to highlight $6.5 million in repairs and improvements to its rail stations. The agency is cleaning trains, buses and stations in an effort to boost ridership. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

In its new campaign aimed at busting grime, the Chicago Transit Authority hopes to reach riders like Adèle-Marie Buis.

Buis regularly rides the L. To her, the Brown Line appears consistently clean and its train cars clean, while the Red Line seems perpetually unmaintained.

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