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For the first time, the Chicago Transit Authority is providing data about which buses have been canceled each day so they don ...
The day Ava Michal Hudson got her new Chicago Transit Authority work ID in January 2024, she showed it right off. In the 1980s, when the government and much of society turned its back on Chicagoans ...
A city analysis warned the bill “would increase the city’s pension liabilities by more than $11 billion” in the two funds ...
The RTA can't order the individual transit agencies to raise fares, but it can reject their budgets. To address the looming ...
Austin Transit Partnership (ATP) releases a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the final design and construction of the Austin ...
Builders putting residences near a CTA train or bus line will soon no longer need special approval to completely forgo ...
Philadelphia is facing a massive transit deficit caused in large part, like Chicago’s, by the expiration of federal pandemic ...
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said Tuesday that he is hopeful lawmakers in Springfield will reach a transit deal before the Chicago Transit Authority hits a fiscal cliff. Jun 3 00:49 ...
CHICAGO—Building on the Chicago Transit Authority’s (CTA’s) existing measures to keep bus and train service timely, efficient and safe, City Tech Collaborative (City Tech), Genetec, Intel and ...
The deterioration has been especially pronounced on the Chicago Transit Authority’s el lines. As Crain’s Greg Hinz put it in a March 2021 column, CTA rapid transit operations “are a big ...
The city ranks third in economic output in the country. Chicago is home to one of the best and largest public transit systems, second only to New York City’s. Before the coronavirus pandemic, the ...
October 17, 1943 - The State Street Subway opens. October 1, 1947 - CTA begins operating, taking over routes formerly serviced by the Chicago Rapid Transit Company and the Chicago Surface Lines.