CTA to replace O’Hare station escalator wiped out in train crash
Work will begin this spring to replace an escalator that was destroyed a year ago when a Blue Line train crashed into the CTA terminal at O'Hare International Airport, the...
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Ventra app presented at show-and-tell, expected to be rolled out soon
Transit officials on Friday demonstrated a test version of a new Ventra smartphone app that will enable mobile ticketing on the CTA, Metra and Pace. The app modernizes the antiquated...
Transit riders are warned to brace for possible service cuts, fare hikes
Transit officials Wednesday laid out a grim scenario of service cuts on buses and trains, fare increases, layoffs and commuters returning to their cars in droves as early as summer...
Federal traffic agency targets drowsy driving
Drowsy driving is an insidious threat to safety that anyone who ever stepped inside a vehicle likely has experienced or witnessed. The federal government on Monday announced new efforts to...
O’Hare taxi passengers, drivers often in holding pattern
The number of taxi trips from O'Hare International Airport to Chicago is setting records, according to the city, but a half-century-old system of staging and summoning cabs leaves passengers and...
South Shore Line express train service to start Monday morning
The South Shore Line will launch a faster morning express train starting Monday to cut the commute to less than two hours between South Bend, Ind., and downtown Chicago, officials...
Noise complaints at O’Hare soar in January
O'Hare jet noise complaints hit a new monthly record — 39,500 — in January, the Chicago Department of Aviation reported Friday. It was a more than six fold increase over...
Blue Line renovations on 5 Northwest Side stations to start this fall
Renovations will begin in the fall and take about a year to complete on the next five stations receiving upgrades on the O'Hare branch of the Blue Line, under a...
CTA chief: Rauner’s proposed cuts worse than first thought
The impact of Gov. Bruce Rauner's proposed budget cuts on the CTA is even worse than the $105 million hit that the transit agency originally projected, CTA President Forrest Claypool...
Amtrak renames operations center for Chicago rail official
Amtrak on Tuesday renamed its operations center in Chicago to honor Joseph Szabo, a fifth-generation railroader who headed the Federal Railroad Administration for 51/2 years of the Obama administration. Szabo,...