CTA Financial Woes Hinder Construction Projects
The Chicago Transit Authority's pitch for its newest big project sounds like a slam dunk. The proposal is still taking shape, but its goal is to recon...
The Chicago Transit Authority's pitch for its newest big project sounds like a slam dunk. The proposal is still taking shape, but its goal is to recon...
chicagocurrent.com | Posted 12.09.2009 | Chicago
The Chicago Transit Board will vote today on whether or not to lay off more employees next year. ...
chicagocurrent.com | Posted 12.07.2009 | Chicago
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 A.V. Club Chicago | Andrew Reilly | Posted 12.04.2009 | Chicago
Holiday season in Chicago means many things to many people, but nothing more strongly symbolizes December in the city than the annual threats issued b...
Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 11.19.2009 | Chicago
The CTA should bring back conductors on Red Line trains as a safety measure or remove all trains from service for inspections until the problem of ope...
Chicago Sun-Times | MARY WISNIEWSKI | Posted 11.17.2009 | Chicago
Passengers on a crowded northbound Red Line train say they got an unwanted thrill ride early Sunday morning -- a door was stuck open from Addison to S...
Chicago Tribune | Stacy St. Clair | Posted 11.05.2009 | Chicago
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 11.18.2009 | 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 ...
chicagocurrent.com | Posted 12.14.2009 | Chicago