Transit 2020: An Immodest Proposal For The CTA
Outside of the persistent problem of slack capital spending, Chicago rapid transit currently suffers from two major physical problems. The El leaves a...
Outside of the persistent problem of slack capital spending, Chicago rapid transit currently suffers from two major physical problems. The El leaves a...
Posted 10.11.2011
A CTA fare hike will not factor into transit President Forrest Claypool’s strategy to balance the $102.7 million shortfall in state funding this yea...
Posted 08.28.2011
Forrest Claypool, the newly appointed president of the Chicago Transit Authority, isn't wasting much time in cutting costs at the cash-strapped agency...
Chicago Now- Going Public | Posted 05.25.2011
Track that train! CTA President Rich Rodriguez announced Thursday that a pilot version of the CTA Train Tracker will be launched in early January ...
Posted 05.25.2011
As the Chicago Transit Authority struggles to deal with shrinking revenues, executives are coming up with creative ways to make money--which is why ou...
Michael Moreci | Posted 05.25.2011
A month after the city was rebuffed in its Olympics bid, the financial hand wringing has returned. The smokescreen Daley spread over the city's economic disasters for the IOC has dissipated.
chicagocurrent.com | Posted 05.25.2011
The CTA has notified employees that it plans layoffs at the beginning of 2010, the train operators' union said. The agency issued notices under the fe...
The Urbanophile | Aaron M. Renn | Posted 05.25.2011
Both the current and former CTA presidents, Richard Rodriguez and Ron Huberman, said that Chicago has a good transit system (I agree) but deserves a g...
STNG/CBS 2 | Posted 05.25.2011
The CTA on Wednesday announced that 2008 combined bus and rail ridership increased by 26.8 million rides, a gain of 5.4 percent over 2007. The total o...
CTA Tattler | Posted 05.25.2011
CTA Tattler is holding its second "Coffee with Ron" this weekend, and again I'm soliciting your questions to ask him. The first coffee in March featu...
Chicago Sun-Times | MARY WISNIEWSKI | Posted 05.25.2011
Starting with this afternoon's rush hour, the CTA will begin testing reduced-seating rail cars on the Brown Line -- cars that are designed to squeeze ...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011
The CTA is running 377 days behind schedule on its project to modernize train signals in the Loop, Chris Bushell, CTA manager of power and way, told t...
Posted 05.25.2011
The CTA is holding four public meetings starting today to hear from riders about how it can better serve them. From the Tribune: The first meeting w...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 05.25.2011
If the CTA is forced to raise fares in 2009 for the first time in three years, blame Gov. Blagojevich. Mayor Daley didn't come right out and say that...
Chicago Sun-Times | MARY WISNIEWSKI | Posted 05.25.2011
The CTA is testing a new hybrid electric bus that can get seven to eight miles per gallon -- double the mpg of current CTA hybrids. The new hybrid en...
Gapers Block | Ramsin Canon | Posted 12.06.2011