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 12.07.2009 | 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 | Posted 11.11.2009 | Chicago
Chicago Transit Authority officials agreed today to not raise fares for two years in return for limited state help that won't be enough to avoid servi...
Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz | Posted 11.11.2009 | Chicago
Transit officials and Gov. Pat Quinn have reached agreement on a deal that will avoid a threatened Chicago Transit Authority fare hike, both in 2010 a...
ABC 7 | Posted 11.10.2009 | Chicago
Four people were injured when a Chicago Transit Authority bus apparently lost control Tuesday morning, ending up in a Far South Side home. ...
Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 11.09.2009 | Chicago
The CTA has new anti-sexual harassment ads up in trains and buses, thanks to the efforts of a group of young Rogers Park women who have campaigned aga...
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 Tribune | Wailin Wong | Posted 11.03.2009 | Chicago
The Chicago Transit Authority has added T-Mobile to a growing list of wireless companies offering underground service....
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 ...
Huffington Post | Posted 10.28.2009 | Chicago
A person is dead after being struck by a CTA Blue Line train Wednesday. A CTA spokeswoman confirmed that a person was hit and killed shortly around 1...
Michael Moreci | Posted 10.27.2009 | Chicago
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.
Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 10.26.2009 | Chicago
Long recognized as one of America's savviest -- and most splashy -- advertisers, Apple Inc. is looking to seal another flashy pact with the CTA....
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 Tribune | Rick Pearson | Posted 10.16.2009 | Chicago
Gov. Pat Quinn indicated today he supports eliminating the blanket free-ride program for seniors on Chicago area mass transit in favor of a plan that...
Chicago Breaking News | Posted 10.15.2009 | Chicago
The Regional Transportation Authority today called for state lawmakers to repeal free rides for seniors in light of a serious budget crunch....
David Ormsby | Posted 10.15.2009 | Chicago
If Hynes ultimately were to become governor and enact his plan, the entire Illinois governing class would be exempt from an Illinois income tax increase. Oops.
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 10.15.2009 | Chicago
Give me the disappointment of a world without freshly-baked Twinkies in exchange for wondering how the State of Illinois will keep all the poor people in food stamps next year.
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.13.2009 | Chicago
The CTA's plan to cut service dramatically and raise fares as high as $3 for express bus and rapid transit service is "very, very ugly," but so is the...
CBS 2 | Kristyn Hartman | Posted 10.13.2009 | Chicago
Senior citizens are still riding the CTA for free. This, despite more than one thousand threatened CTA lay-offs, service reductions, and dramatic fare...
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...
chicagocurrent.com | Posted 12.14.2009 | Chicago