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The CTA has a four-pronged plan for rebuilding ridership
Chief Innovation Officer Molly Poppe said the agency intends to grow off-peak ridership; expand existing service; improve customer service; and increase advertising.
July 5, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Friday, July 5
• Block Club: Black drivers in Chicago subjected to more than half of police traffic stops, new report finds
July 5, 2024
There’s no shame in the Critical Mass “corking” game. But after violence two months in a row, let’s increase the peace
Enraged drivers assaulted CCM riders blocking intersections on the Near North Side and in Uptown, including shots fired. What's the right way forward?
July 3, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, July 3
• Dorval on defense: Embattled CTA chief tours system with members of City and State Black caucuses, Tiktoker Sherman "Dilla" Thomas (Tribune)
July 3, 2024
Chicago Union Station concourse overhaul will include expanded bike parking options
According a survey focused on bike parking, respondents overwhelmingly preferred the addition of secure, indoor bike storage at Union Station.
July 2, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, July 2
• Public hearings coming soon on plan to consolidate CTA, Metra, Pace, including 7/9, 10 AM at 160 N. La Salle, Chicago (Daily Herald, Ben Szalinski)
July 2, 2024
TransitCenter’s updated Transportation Equity Dashboard finds Chicago transit access is trailing peer cities
"[Chicago transit is] falling behind in a post-COVID world," the report's creators say.
July 1, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Monday, July 1
• CTA passenger in his late 20s shot to death, bus driver wounded in shoulder during altercation Monday around 12:14 AM on 3400 block of S. State (ABC)
July 1, 2024
Many sustainable transportation advocates showed up for the last meeting on the Church Street bikeway plan
An attendee credited previous Streetsblog coverage of the controversial project with helping to draw the big turnout.
June 29, 2024
Day trippers: My kid with special needs and I rode Metra to Geneva for a riverside bicycle adventure
The commuter rail system provides easy, generally ADA accessible, access to suburbs like Geneva that offer shopping, dining, and other activities within walking or rolling distance of the station.
June 28, 2024