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...
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...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 02.09.2009 | Chicago
Mayor Daley said today he tried to salvage $153 million in federal funding awarded to Chicago to create 10.2 miles of "bus rapid transit" service, but...
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 Public Radio | Posted 10.26.2008 | Chicago
More than $37 million to help pay for free rides on Chicago area mass transit is hanging in political limbo. Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich cut the...
Greg Boose | Posted 10.18.2008 | Chicago
Daley and his team have been so excited regarding the praise of his ballyhooed one-worded comeback that they've taken similar approaches with other Chicago figures.
NBC 5 | Posted 10.11.2008 | Chicago
Gov. Rod Blagojevich slammed CTA leadership today, accusing the agency of being dishonest to the public, and "scaring" the General Assembly into pass...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 10.10.2008 | Chicago
If the CTA is forced to raise fares in 2009 for the first time in three years, blame Gov. Blagojevich. Mayor Daley didn't come right out and say that...
Posted 10.09.2008 | Chicago
In the face of a nearly $70 million budget shortfall, the Chicago Transit Authority is laying off 80 employees but not raising fares or reducing servi...
Chicago Sun-Times | Thomas Frisbie, Tim Novak, Mark J. Konkol and Natasha Korecki | Posted 09.14.2008 | Chicago
The CTA is facing a financial squeeze bad enough that agency president Ron Huberman has warned that fare hikes might need to be imposed next year. Bu...
Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz | Posted 11.11.2009 | Chicago