CTA board reflects on the highs and lows of 2024, goals for 2025, at final meeting of the year
At this week's final CTA board meeting of 2024, the directors approved several ordinances. Most notably, the CTA and DePaul University’s Driehaus College of Business agreed to launch a pair of pilot programs to help small minority-owned small businesses win contracts with the transit agency.
December 13, 2024
Approved 2025 CTA budget shifts $3.3 million from security funds to develop public safety pilot programs
Plus transit board members pushed President Dorval Carter on more accountability for current security, and the CTA announced a redesign of the Clark/Lake station.
November 14, 2024
At public meeting on the CTA’s proposed 2025 budget, residents voice concerns about security and reliability
Commenters also discussed agency consolidation, bus bunching, the CTA chatbot, and fleet electrification.
November 8, 2024
Everybody’s working for the weekend: Pace’s ReVision network restructuring project could lead to more Saturday / Sunday service
ReVision, Pace Suburban Bus’ long-discussed post-pandemic systemwide route revamp, is starting to take shape.
November 4, 2024
Proposed 2025 CTA budget emphasizes accessibility improvements, service tweaks
The CTA released its proposed 2025 CTA budget last Friday, October 11. The document hints at some potential service increases, touts several station improvements that have been discussed for years, and even dares to hope that 2025 will be the year construction finally starts on the long-awaited Red Line extension.
October 18, 2024
Metra’s last pre-fiscal-cliff budget proposal includes station, service improvements
Changes to North Central Service, Milwaukee West schedules are coming.
October 15, 2024
At board meeting: CTA is piloting digital bus stop signs at 20 stops, and are unarmed security guards effective?
Transit agency to pilot new pole-mounted digital bus stop signs
October 12, 2024
Pace budget preview hints at service increases, talks hydrogen bus pilot
Pace riders may get more evening and weekend service in 2025 – but it will be another month before they’ll see any details on what that might look like.
September 28, 2024
So good to see you: Getting stoked for passenger rail service to Rockford at one of 4 public meetings this week
A series of four community meetings the Illinois Department of Transportation is hosting this week keeps the flame alive that Governor JB Pritzker's promise of Metra service between Chicago and Rockford was not just a cheap trick.
September 20, 2024
CTA board meeting focuses on improving bus service equity, and public safety in the wake of the Blue Line murders
Two major themes dominated September meeting of the CTA's transit board, held on Wednesday, September 11.
September 12, 2024
