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Deal In The Works To Avoid CTA Fare Hike

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...

CTA Bus Crashes Into House (VIDEO)

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. ...

New CTA Ads Aimed At Stopping Sexual Harassment

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...

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

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...

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

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....

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

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 ...

Person Struck, Killed By Blue Line Train At Monroe Station

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...

Back to Business as Usual

Michael Moreci | Posted 10.27.2009 | Chicago


Michael Moreci

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.

This CTA Station Brought To You By Apple?

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....

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


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...

Chicago Transit at a Crossroads

Aaron Renn | Posted 10.16.2009 | Chicago


Aaron Renn

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.

Quinn Open To Ending Automatic Free Rides For Seniors

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...

RTA: End Free Rides For All Seniors

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....

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

David Ormsby | Posted 10.15.2009 | Chicago


David Ormsby

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.

Savoring the End of the World As We Know It!

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 10.15.2009 | Chicago


Esther J. Cepeda

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.

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

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...

CTA Fare Hike Won't End Free Rides For Seniors

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...

CTA Union Prepares For Layoffs

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....

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

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...

How Metra Lost a New Rider

Mike Doyle | Posted 10.07.2009 | Chicago


Mike Doyle

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.

New CTA Chairman: Fare Hikes, Service Cuts Possible

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...

After Olympics Bust, What Will Come Of Chicago's Public Projects?

Crain's Chicago Business | Lorene Yue | Posted 10.04.2009 | Chicago


Civic leaders are hoping transportation, community development and urban planning improvements will stay on track now that Chicago is not hosting the ...

Olympics Loss Puts Daley On Defensive And Chicago Plans In Limbo

AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 10.03.2009 | Chicago


CHICAGO — Chicago's dream of an Olympics-sized stimulus was dashed when the 2016 Summer Games were awarded to Rio de Janeiro, and the loss amoun...

Terry Peterson, Former Housing Authority Chief, To Become CTA Board Chair

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 09.29.2009 | Chicago


Former Chicago Housing Authority chief Terry Peterson, who has emerged as one of Mayor Daley's closest political confidantes, is the mayor's choice to...

CTA Shakeup: Board Chair Carole Brown, Vice Chair Susan Leonis Resign

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 09.22.2009 | Chicago


CTA Board Chairwoman Carole Brown and her co-hort, Vice Chair Susan Leonis, resigned today, creating a leadership vacuum at the chronically-troubled m...