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E-buses are great, but Climate Reality Project should also push for effective bus lanes
Climate Reality Project’s desire to see more electric buses is understandable, but could the group do more good by lobbying for bus lanes and legalizing camera enforcement of those lanes?
August 3, 2022
Upgrades to These Six Bus Routes Would Improve Transit Citywide
The Active Transportation Alliance proposed infrastructure upgrades for six specific routes across Chicago.
November 17, 2017
Eyes on the Street: Prepaid Bus Boarding Pilots at Belmont/LSD and 69th Street Red Line
The Chicago Transit Authority is testing a prepaid boarding system during weekday rush hours at a few of its busiest stops along major routes to see if it will improve travel times.
July 12, 2017
Why the Belmont Blue Rehab Includes a Futuristic Canopy but No Elevators
Early this month the city announced upgrades the Blue Line’s Belmont stop that will cost up to $15 million. The improvements to the station, which opened in 1970 and was originally designed by Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill, include several cosmetic changes, including a space-age-looking weather canopy. However, many residents are scratching their heads about why the rehab won’t include the addition of elevators to make the stations compliant with the Americans With Disabilities act.
October 27, 2016
Eyes on the Street: CTA Tests Prepaid Boarding on the Loop Link BRT System
Besides being the day Chicago was ranked the top biking city by bicycling magazine, September 19, 2016, may also go down in history as the day the Loop Link bus rapid transit system started getting faster. While the corridor, which debuted last December, seems to have been resulting in modest timesaving gains for bus riders, it’s been missing a key element of robust BRT: prepaid boarding. Today the CTA launched a test of this feature at the Madison/Dearborn station, the busiest of the Loop Link stops, and it appears to be working well.
September 19, 2016
The Wait Is Almost Over: The Loop Link Prepaid Boarding Pilot Starts Monday
Since it launched last December, the Loop Link bus rapid transit system’s timesaving benefits have been modest, but they’re about to improve. The CTA just announced that this Monday, September 19, it's starting a three-month test of prepaid boarding -- in which customers pay their fare before the bus arrives -- at the BRT system's Madison/Dearborn station.
September 14, 2016
Prepaid Boarding Debuts on Belmont, But Why Doesn’t Loop Link Have It Yet?
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June 14, 2016