Fabio Göttlicher

On Halloween, a Crain's editorial did a fine job of summing up the stressful, but ultimately successful, legislative process that led to the Illinois General Assembly passing a robust transit reform/funding bill earlier that morning. "A long night yields long-overdue action on transit" is definitely the best op-ed I've seen on the topic in the mainstream press since last Friday.

Note: In what's sure to be a refreshing change of pace for Streetsblog Chicago readers, I have committed to not making any '80s pop music references in this article about a CTA service announcement.

Commuters Take Action says they're "wary" of the CTA's claims that previous schedule service will be restored by mid-November.

Records show Carter has barely ridden the CTA in the past two years, when conditions have declined. Should he keep his job?

Thanks to Streetsblog's Steven Vance for editing help with this piece.

While the CTA put out a press release about additional “short-turned” trips between O'Hare and UIC, they barely publicized scheduled service cuts to other lines at all.

Unless the CTA can get its workforce back up to full strength, and return its scheduled and delivered service to pre-pandemic levels, this upward trend may not last.

The war of words between Commuters Take Action CTA rider advocacy group and CTA President Dorval Carter Jr. continued at the yesterday’s Chicago Transit Board meeting.

After the CTA announced cuts to scheduled rail service last September in an effort to make the schedule better reflect available labor, earlier this month the agency quietly reduced the number of scheduled Blue Line runs even further.