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...
AP | Posted 05.24.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- The Chicago Transit Authority has permanently parked 225 accordion-style buses after finding cracks and structural defects it says cal...
Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 05.08.2009 | Chicago
Injections of federal and state funding have helped brighten the Chicago Transit Authority's gloomy budget outlook, transit officials said today. ...
Chicago Sun-Times | MARY WISNIEWSKI | Posted 04.09.2009 | Chicago
The CTA took a big bet on fuel prices this year, and so far is losing big. The transit agency, facing a budget shortfall of $242 million, is paying $...
Chi-Town Daily News | ADRIAN G. URIBARRI | Posted 03.20.2009 | Chicago
CTA employees could lose their jobs if the agency's board approves an ordinance Wednesday authorizing workforce reductions. The ordinance is intended ...
Mike Doyle | Posted 03.13.2009 | Chicago
The recommissioned Polk Street entrance is a wonderful new convenience for South Loop transit riders. Too bad the CTA doesn't feel like telling them about it.
Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz | Posted 03.07.2009 | Chicago
Inside sources report that Chicago Aviation Commissioner Richard Rodriguez has emerged as the leading candidate to succeed Ron Huberman as president o...
Mike Doyle | Posted 02.28.2009 | Chicago
Chicagoans, especially those growing numbers who ride the CTA to work and to school every day, recognize how rotten this decision is.
Mike Doyle | Posted 02.27.2009 | Chicago
It may be the biggest heist in Chicago history, folks, and it's right under our noses. Or our feet, anyway.
Chicago Tribune | John McCarron | Posted 02.12.2009 | Chicago
[T]he Illinois congressional delegation is pulling together a wish list of public works projects to be part of the $800 billion stimulus package sough...
Chicago Public Radio | Mike Rhee | Posted 02.09.2009 | Chicago
Riders on the Chicago Transit Authority might have a better idea of when trains are going to arrive. That's because of new digital displays the agency...
Chicago Public Radio | Sam Hudzik | Posted 01.30.2009 | Chicago
Fares on Chicago Transit Authority buses and trains are going up on January first. So are fees on routes operated by Pace suburban bus system. ...
Chi-Town Daily News | Megan Cottrell | Posted 01.22.2009 | Chicago
It's the CTA Holiday train, the tremendously decorated, music playing beacon of holiday spirit that rides the rails this time of year. The train isn'...
Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 01.22.2009 | Chicago
There should be no feeling of deja vu the next time the Chicago Transit Authority is forced to evacuate train riders from subways, transit officials ...
Chi-Town Daily News | Peter Sachs | Posted 01.15.2009 | Chicago
The Regional Transportation Authority is hoping to get as much as $675 million from the Obama Administration early next year for a variety of capital ...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 01.11.2009 | Chicago
High gas prices and free rides offered to senior citizens propelled CTA ridership so far in 2008 to its highest level in 16 years, officials said toda...
Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 01.08.2009 | Chicago
CTA trains are chugging along at up to 55 m.p.h. on long segments of the rail lines for the first time in years thanks to slow-zone repairs that will ...
Mike Doyle | Posted 01.05.2009 | Chicago
The CTA remains adamant that its continuous-rider policy is not aimed at homeless people. But the hypocrisy behind the agency's policy is brutally evident.
Chicago Sun-Times | Mary Wisniewski | Posted 01.04.2009 | Chicago
The CTA has cut 29 percent of its mechanics in the last 13 years, and the union claims those cuts means unsafe buses are on the roads. "There's not e...
Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 01.03.2009 | Chicago
The CTA unveiled new hybrid buses today that plug into an electrical outlet at night and run on battery power for most of the day. The transit agenc...
STNG | Posted 01.03.2009 | Chicago
A little more than a year after it closed for renovation as part of the CTA's rehabbing of the Brown Line, the Irving Park Brown Line station will reo...
CBS 2 | Posted 01.02.2009 | Chicago
Advertisements in bus shelters are usually only a visual experience, but now, CTA commuters will have the ads to thank for free heat too. Stove Top S...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 12.27.2008 | Chicago
In preparation for Thursday's 75th annual Thanksgiving Day Parade, the Chicago Transit Authority will make temporary changes to some of its bus routes...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 06.13.2009 | Chicago