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Alderpersons turn up the heat on CTA to explain how the agency will fix service gaps
Service gaps were understandable during the depths of the pandemic, but that's no longer an acceptable excuse, so it's good to see alders lighting a fire under the agency to address the problem.
June 22, 2022
Unfortunately, most bus lanes have been removed from Pace South Halsted Pulse plan
While it's unfortunate that the Pulse Halsted plan no longer includes significant stretches of bus lanes, hopefully the other time-saving features will help shorten trips for South Side and Southland commuters.
May 26, 2022
Here’s the CTA’s explanation for the infuriating “ghost” bus and train problem
Everyone hates the now-common situation where train or bus runs appear the Train Tracker and Bus Tracker, but then disappear before they ever arrive.
May 26, 2022
Is this the beginning of prioritizing buses on Chicago’s streets?
Better Streets for Buses meetings have started, and ELPC calls for five bus rapid transit routes in five years.
May 19, 2022
Pace field-tests leased e-bus, will probably cancel redundant Pace/Metra PlusBus Pass
The suburban bus system is already using a leased electric bus to do some field-testing. It also plans to eliminate the now-superfluous PlusBus Pass, which allows Metra monthly pass holders to ride Pace buses for an extra $30 a month.
May 15, 2022
95th Station shooting by CTA employee shouldn’t lead to more armed security
A violent incident involving a CTA employee should not be used as justification for more armed security on the CTA.
March 28, 2022
The great motor divide: How our obsession with cars has driven us apart
Transportation by private car fails the city socially, while transit’s built-in opportunities for contact and cooperation are tools we desperately need to leverage in order to learn how to live together again.
March 22, 2022
Homeless coalition hopes CTA security plan won’t “criminalize” unhoused people on the ‘L’
"I don't think there's really going to be a decrease in people sleeping on the trains until we have a more systemic solution in place.”
March 14, 2022
Nice: CTA gets $118M in operations funds, opportunity to apply for electrification cash
The operations funds will help address service gaps due to labor shortages. Plus federal grant programs were announced that the CTA can apply for to fund plans to electrify its bus fleet by 2040.
March 8, 2022
Can we humanely improve conditions on the ‘L’? Here’s what’s happening in SF, NYC
Now is not the time for the nation’s second-largest public transit system to go backwards, with conditions that scare people away people from using buses and trains.
February 25, 2022
