So I used to take the RTA to high school (SIHS) back in the day. My bus, the #9 ran downtown and was pretty frequent. There were a lot of shady people around Public Square and Euclid, but eh, I could live with it. The #22 was hell, even though I rode it only for about 10 minutes. CPS kids made that 10 minutes feel like an hour.
Now, I thought I would try taking it to work. I guess while I was gone someone took a huge axe to the system, because buses run incredibly infrequent. The #9 doesn't go downtown anymore, except for a small amount of rush hour trips (Which I don't understand, because that bus was always crowded to/from downtown). Using RTA is much more of a hassle than it used to be.
As someone who never really preferred driving places (after living in Chicago with most buses running every 10min or less during rush hour), riding the RTA recently made me rethink plans of using it again.