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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
Streetsblog Chicago

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
Chicago Policy

The dogs used for CTA’s $31M K-9 unit contract are basically very expensive decoys

February 3, 2023
Chicago Policy

The Jackson 5: Spending five hours at the Jackson ‘L’ stops, a CTA trouble spot

June 1, 2022
Bus Transit

Homeless coalition hopes CTA security plan won’t “criminalize” unhoused people on the ‘L’

March 14, 2022
Bus Transit

Number of unarmed guards on CTA doubling to over 200 to address crime, rule-breaking

March 9, 2022
Funding & Finance

Black Residents: Private Guards Would Make Ukrainian Village Less Safe for Walking

January 18, 2018