Even though I know the CTA doesn’t like this, it would be fun to videotape each of the lines from end to end. e.g. Get on the red line howard, press up a video camera against a window, and shoot from Howard all the way down to 95th.

Sound boring? Yeah, kinda. But it would be neat to have a record of this. We all assume there there is plenty of archival record of the CTA, but I don’t think there really is. It’s all over the place shot by different people. The CTA should record this once a year, just for historical purposes.

I’ve been doing a little recording with my super tiny, discreet $20 Vistaquest VZ1005. It’s kinda neat to watch the ride from a crappy little camera. It’s rather entrancing, actually. (Check out “CTA Train Reflection“).

The thing is that this camera only shoots like 25 seconds at a time. I’m about to pull the trigger on another camera that shoots longer video. Will I actually be brave enough to videotape a ride down to 95th? Perhaps.