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CTA Financial Woes Hinder Construction Projects

chicagocurrent.com | Posted 12.14.2009 | Chicago

Read More: CTA Construction, Chicago Transit Authority, Public Transportation, Chicago, Cta, CTA Projects, Chicago Transportation, CTA Development, Chicago News

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...

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CTA Layoffs Expected For Early 2010, Says Union

chicagocurrent.com | Posted 12.07.2009 | Chicago

Read More: CTA Budget, Chicago Transit Authority, CTA Budget Shortfall, Public Transportation, Chicago, CTA Layoffs Expected, Cta, Chicago Public Transportation, CTA Layoffs 2010, CTA Layoffs, Chicago News

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...

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Five CTA Stations The City Could Do Without

The A.V. Club Chicago | Andrew Reilly | Posted 12.04.2009 | Chicago

Read More: CTA Budget, Cta, Chicago Transit Authority, CTA Budget Woes, CTA Budget Shortfall, Chicago News

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...

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CTA Union Leader Calls For Return Of Train Conductors: 'We've Dodged A Bullet'

Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 11.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Cta, CTA Conductors, Chicago Transit Authority, CTA Red Line, CTA Safety, Chicago News

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...

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Doors On CTA Red Line Train Didn't Close: Passengers

Chicago Sun-Times | MARY WISNIEWSKI | Posted 11.17.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Cta, Chicago Transit Authority, Cta Doors, CTA Red Line, Cta Red Line Doors, Chicago News

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...

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CTA Agrees To Hold Off Fare Hikes, But Cuts Still Likely

Chicago Tribune | Posted 11.11.2009 | Chicago

Read More: CTA Budget, CTA Fare Increase, Cta, Pat Quinn, CTA Fare Hike, Regional Transportation Authority, Chicago News

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...

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Deal In The Works To Avoid CTA Fare Hike

Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz | Posted 11.11.2009 | Chicago

Read More: CTA Funding, CTA Fare Increase, Cta, Pat Quinn, CTA Fare Hike, Regional Transportation Authority, Chicago News

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...

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CTA Bus Crashes Into House (VIDEO)

ABC 7 | Posted 11.10.2009 | Chicago

Read More: CTA Bus Slams Into Home, CTA Bus Crash, Cta, CTA Accident, Chicago News

Four people were injured when a Chicago Transit Authority bus apparently lost control Tuesday morning, ending up in a Far South Side home. ...

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New CTA Ads Aimed At Stopping Sexual Harassment

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 11.09.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Rogers Park Young Women's Action Team, Cta, Cta Sexual Harassment, Sexual Harassment, Chicago News

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...

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CTA Union Chief On Alleged Train Stroller Dragging: 'Something Is Not Adding Up Here'

Chicago Tribune | Stacy St. Clair | Posted 11.05.2009 | Chicago

Read More: CTA Accident, Cta, Chicago Transit Authority, Cta Stroller Accident, Cta Stroller, Ebere Ozonwu, Morse Station Stroller, Chicago News

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...

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T-Mobile Service Coming To CTA Red, Blue Line Tunnels

Chicago Tribune | Wailin Wong | Posted 11.03.2009 | Chicago

Read More: T-Mobile, Cta, Cta Cellphone Service, CTA Wireless, CTA T-Mobile, CTA Cell Service, Chicago News

The Chicago Transit Authority has added T-Mobile to a growing list of wireless companies offering underground service....

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Infant Survives After Being Caught In CTA Train Doors, Thrown On Tracks

Chicago Breaking News | Posted 11.03.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Cta, Chicago Transit Authority, Red Line, Morse Station Stroller, Chicago News

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 ...

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Person Struck, Killed By Blue Line Train At Monroe Station

Huffington Post | Posted 10.28.2009 | Chicago

Read More: CTA Accident, Cta, CTA Blue Line, Blue Line, Chicago News

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...

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Back to Business as Usual

Michael Moreci | Posted 10.27.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Olympics, Economic Crisis, Chicago, Cta, Chicago Public Transportation, Chicago Election, Chicago Mayoral Race, Chicago Deficit, Mayor Daley, Chicago News

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.

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This CTA Station Brought To You By Apple?

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 10.26.2009 | Chicago

Read More: CTA Sponsorships, Apple CTA, Cta, Apple, Cta Revenue, CTA North and Clybourn, Chicago News

Long recognized as one of America's savviest -- and most splashy -- advertisers, Apple Inc. is looking to seal another flashy pact with the CTA....

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CTA Layoffs: 2,000 Bus Drivers, CTA Workers Get Pink Slip Warnings

Chicago Sun-Times | KARA SPAK AND FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: CTA Budget Shortfall, CTA Budget, CTA Layoffs, Cta, Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago News

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...

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Chicago Transit at a Crossroads

Aaron Renn | Posted 10.16.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Transit Authority, Public Transportation, Pace, Metra, Midway Airport, Urban Planning, Cta-Orange-Line, City Planning, Illinois Budget, Cta, Indianapolis, Rod Blagojevich, Mayor Daley, Global Cities, Rta, CTA Bus Tracker, El, Chicago News

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.

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Quinn Open To Ending Automatic Free Rides For Seniors

Chicago Tribune | Rick Pearson | Posted 10.16.2009 | Chicago

Read More: CTA Free Rides for Seniors, Cta, Pat Quinn, Rta, CTA Free Rides, Chicago News

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...

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RTA: End Free Rides For All Seniors

Chicago Breaking News | Posted 10.15.2009 | Chicago

Read More: CTA Budget, CTA Free Rides for Seniors, Cta, Rta, Regional Transportation Authority, Chicago News

The Regional Transportation Authority today called for state lawmakers to repeal free rides for seniors in light of a serious budget crunch....

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Dan Hynes' Tax Plan Would Shield Illinois Legislature, Governor From Tax Hike and Other Campaign News

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.

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Savoring the End of the World As We Know It!

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 10.15.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Barack Obama Nobel Prize, Illinois Senate 2010, Zombieland, Kennedy Expressway, Cta, Great Recession, Thompson Center, Chicago News

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.

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Daley: Scrap Free CTA Rides For Seniors To Aid Budget Crunch

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.13.2009 | Chicago

Read More: CTA Free Rides for Seniors, CTA Budget, CTA Funding, Cta, CTA Fare Hike, Mayor Daley, Chicago News

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...

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CTA Fare Hike Won't End Free Rides For Seniors

CBS 2 | Kristyn Hartman | Posted 10.13.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Cta, CTA Budget, CTA Fare Hike, CTA Free Rides for Seniors, CTA Senior Citizens, Chicago News

Senior citizens are still riding the CTA for free. This, despite more than one thousand threatened CTA lay-offs, service reductions, and dramatic fare...

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CTA Union Prepares For Layoffs

Chicago Public Radio | Tony Arnold | Posted 10.13.2009 | Chicago

Read More: CTA Layoffs, Cta, CTA Budget, Richard Rodriguez, Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago News

The head of the union representing many Chicago Transit Authority workers says his members are bracing for layoffs....

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CTA Fare Hike: Trains To Be $3 Per Ride, Buses Up 25 Cents

Chicago Tribune | Posted 10.12.2009 | Chicago

Read More: CTA Budget, CTA Fare Increase, Cta, Chicago Transit Authority, CTA Fare Hike, CTA Fares, Chicago News

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...

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