Pace 2021 budget reflects the pandemic’s new normal
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If there are three words that can best sum up Pace’s plans for the upcoming year, they are “pandemic status quo.”
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Crystal Lake, RTA seek community feedback for transit-orientated development plan
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Crystal Lake is working with the Regional Transportation Authority to create a Strategic Action Plan, which would guide community development and transportation planning around the suburb's two Metra stations.
South Siders sound off on transportation during COVID-19
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The Active Transportation Alliance recently released the first of a series of findings from a listening tour conducted with South Side elected officials and community leaders
Uncharted territory: RTA leaders discuss how Chicago transit will survive COVID-19
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How with the CTA, Pace, and Metra transport more people to work when the state reopens, while maintaining social distance, with a lot less money? That remains to be seen.
Facing falling ridership, Pace suspends 15 bus routes, modifies service on another 21
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Today Pace announced that it is temporarily cutting 15 bus lines, as well as modifying another 12 routes, in order to cut costs, as well as providing other pandemic-related updates.
Pace’s latest pandemic strategy: waiving bus fares, MacGyvering protective shields for drivers
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Since some Pace buses don't have rear doors, Pace won't be installing rear fare card readers, so some riders will continue to board through the front door. As such, Pace is making shields to protect drivers.
An update from Pace on its COVID-19 Response
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The agency is deploying more buses on high-ridership routes to prevent dangerous crowding, and providing thermometers to bus drivers so they can take their temperatures before shifts.
With ridership steeply dropping, Metra, Pace, and South Shore have pared down schedules
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Times are tough for local transit systems but their doing their best to cope.
Transit ridership is plummeting, the systems need a bailout, and transit workers need protection
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It's going to stand with Active Trans in the fight to win emergency funding for transit and protect workers during the pandemic.
Chicago transit ridership is dropping, but that’s actually a good thing
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If you don't need to ride transit, then please walk, bike or, if necessary, drive where you need to go to help out those who must use the CTA, Pace, or Metra.
At Pace hearing in Wilmette, concerns about impact of route changes on students, workers
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This was the last of a series of public meetings on a set of proposed changes in the north suburbs as part the second phase of the North Shore Coordination Plan.
Proposed North Shore bus changes raise concerns from Glenview parents, students
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Workers and healthcare providers also said the changes would disrupt transportation access.