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...
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 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....
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...
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...
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...
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 11.22.2009 | 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...
Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 08.15.2009 | Chicago
The possibility of CTA service cuts has been taken off the table for this year, transit officials said Wednesday. ...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.26.2009 | Chicago
The Chicago Transit Authority will have to make do with $35 million less this year after the Regional Transportation Authority board cut the operating...
Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 07.24.2009 | Chicago
The Regional Transportation Authority board will be asked on Thursday to approve a new round of cuts totaling $61 million at the CTA, Metra and Pace t...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 06.13.2009 | Chicago
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 Public Radio | Mike Rhee | Posted 05.10.2009 | Chicago
Fare hikes on the Chicago Transit Authority appear even less likely after some comments made by Mayor Richard Daley Thursday....
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. ...
Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz | Posted 04.26.2009 | Chicago
The Chicago Transit Authority is floating a plan to close a $155-million budget hole without raising fares, cutting service or boosting the size of it...
Crain's Chicago Business | Meghan Streit | Posted 04.11.2009 | Chicago
The Chicago Transit Authority on Wednesday floated budget cuts and fare hikes, among other cost-saving measures, in an attempt to close the agency's $...
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 $...
Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 04.02.2009 | Chicago
For commuters looking to buy a home or start a business near a transit line, the Chicago Transit Authority may have just the deal. The CTA is openin...
Associated Press | Posted 03.30.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- The Illinois Legislature is considering putting restrictions on the free rides on public transportation now being offered seniors. A ...
Chicago Sun-Times | MARY WISNIEWSKI | Posted 03.21.2009 | Chicago
The CTA says it's facing another possible doomsday. Officials said today they are looking at a likely $87 million budget shortfall this year and $155...
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 ...
Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 03.19.2009 | Chicago
The sinking economy is driving Chicago-area mass-transit agencies into the ground, according to new data marking a quick return to budget crises. The...
AP | Posted 12.19.2008 | Chicago
The Chicago Transit Authority along with leaders from 10 other transit agencies pleaded with Congress for help Tuesday as long-term financing deals wi...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 11.11.2009 | Chicago