CTA Union Chief On Alleged Train Stroller Dragging: 'Something Is Not Adding Up Here'
A stroller believed to have been involved in an incident on the CTA Red Line on Monday evening could play a key role in determining whether a train op...
A stroller believed to have been involved in an incident on the CTA Red Line on Monday evening could play a key role in determining whether a train op...
Chicago Breaking News | Posted 11.03.2009 | Chicago
Screaming "the train took my baby,'' a mother watched in horror as a CTA train pulled away from a North Side station with her baby and stroller stuck ...
Chicago Tribune | William Lee and Andrew Wang | Posted 10.28.2009 | Chicago
Chicago police this afternoon said a report by a female Northwestern University student claiming that she was forced off a Chicago Transit Authority t...
Chicago Sun-Times | KARA SPAK AND FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.20.2009 | Chicago
Layoff notices have been sent to nearly 2,000 CTA bus drivers and other unionized employees, warning that their jobs could be eliminated in the next t...
Aaron Renn | Posted 10.16.2009 | Chicago
The CTA doomsday budget, even if it doesn't come to pass, has done a great service by showing the city the inevitable future. Service has been trending downward for decades.
Chicago Public Radio | Tony Arnold | Posted 10.13.2009 | Chicago
The head of the union representing many Chicago Transit Authority workers says his members are bracing for layoffs....
Chicago Tribune | Posted 10.12.2009 | Chicago
The Chicago Transit Authority is proposing to increase bus and train fares under its 2010 budget that will be unveiled today to help close a projected...
Mike Doyle | Posted 10.07.2009 | Chicago
For all the recent crowing from Metra about the transit agency's nifty new homepage, the site's online contact form limits written complaints to 500 characters. Not words. Characters.
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 10.05.2009 | Chicago
Soon-to-be CTA Board Chairman Terry Peterson said today he "can't take anything off the table" -- including the possibility of fare hikes, service cut...
STNG | Posted 09.18.2009 | Chicago
A CTA bus fatally struck a 51-year-old man Thursday night on the South Side....
Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 11.09.2009 | Chicago
The CTA moved today to equip all 144 rail stations with security cameras....
The Urbanophile | Aaron M. Renn | Posted 09.23.2009 | Chicago
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...
Huffington Post | Posted 09.18.2009 | Chicago
Jazz is coming to el, though it won't be cheap. Beginning this weekend, the CTA will start running a car featuring live Jazz musicians on a Purple Li...
Chicago Sun-Times | MARY WISNIEWSKI | Posted 09.12.2009 | Chicago
The Chicago Transit Authority board voted today to accept proposals to extend the Red, Yellow and Orange lines on the L system. ...
AP | Posted 09.05.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Under a new policy, Chicago Transit Authority bus drivers and train operators can be fired after the first time they're caught using a...
AP | Rupa Shenoy | Posted 09.03.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- A man accused of transmitting on Chicago Transit Authority frequencies more than 300 times could have endangered thousands of lives, f...
Mike Doyle | Posted 08.22.2009 | Chicago
The CTA president is leasing a car from the CTA to make sure he doesn't have to ride to work on his own agency's buses and trains. Are you kidding me?
Chicago Sun-Times | MARY WISNIEWSKI | Posted 08.20.2009 | Chicago
Looking to cut costs at a time the mass-transit agency is strapped for cash, CTA President Richard Rodriguez says he'll take away employees' free take...
Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 08.20.2009 | Chicago
Last year, after then-CTA President Ron Huberman introduced with great fanfare the cars with 12 or 14 fewer seats and announced plans to expand Maxis ...
Mike Doyle | Posted 08.03.2009 | Chicago
Maybe CTA President Richard Rodriguez should spend less time driving to work and more time attending to the system that 1.5 million riders a day depend on to get around Chicago.
Huffington Post | Posted 07.26.2009 | Chicago
The Chicago Transit Authority will have to make do with $35 million less this year after the Regional Transportation Authority board cut the operating...
The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 07.18.2009 | Business
We recently came across two criminally overlooked stories from Bloomberg that cover some very impressive ground. In a report from March, Bloomberg t...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 06.13.2009 | Chicago
The CTA will defer a huge chunk of preventive maintenance work on buses and trains and make other painful cuts to erase a projected $155 million short...
Chicago Sun-Times | MARY WISNIEWSKI | Posted 05.30.2009 | Chicago
More area residents used public transit, and there was more public transit to use between 2003 and 2007, according to a Regional Transportation Author...
Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2009 | Chicago
Robbery has soared 77 percent on CTA trains, buses and platforms in the last three years, the Sun-Times reports. According the the Chicago Police Dep...
Chicago Tribune | Stacy St. Clair | Posted 11.05.2009 | Chicago