Walter's Perspective: Allowing Guns On Public Transportation Is Madness
CBS 2's Walter Jacobson says lawmakers shouldn't cave to the demands of the NRA that Chicago commuters be allowed to carry concealed weapons.
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CBS 2's Walter Jacobson says lawmakers shouldn't cave to the demands of the NRA that Chicago commuters be allowed to carry concealed weapons.
If gun owners are allowed to ride the CTA armed, its union leaders want to arm transit personnel to the teeth, also, but the union says allowing commuters to carry guns on buses and trains would be "disastrous."
Faster bus service is coming to the heavily-traveled corridor linking Navy Pier and Michigan Avenue with the West Loop Metra terminals. Wednesday, CTA and the Chicago Dept. of Transportation unveiled plans for the service, which is expected to shave as much as nine minutes off the commuting time.
It's the dirty little hidden danger of riding public transportation.
Money Network, one of the company's behind the new Ventra transit and debit card, currently has an F rating with the Better Business Bureau. CBS 2's Dorothy Tucker reports.
The transit agency's board approved a switch from fluorescent to LED interior lighting Wednesday.
The Chicago Transit Authority is hoping to catch more crime on camera.
The Emanuel Administration has awarded an $8 million contract to a local company to supply the seats for at least 300 new CTA buses that will soon replace older vehicles on the streets.
Police say one of two robbers was accidentally stabbed by his partner as they tried to rob a man onboard a CTA Blue Line train early this morning.
Trains on the CTA's Blue Line are experiencing delays early Tuesday because of a "track condition" near the Harlem station.
Neighbors and businesses along the Red Line tracks south of Morse are bracing for a weekend of pile driving as the CTA puts in a new substation.
Ramona Rogers-Washington has a fractured wrist and a bullet in her chest, but nonetheless she said she's "very blessed" to be alive, after a shooting on a CTA bus on Thursday.
A 57-year-old woman was shot while riding a CTA bus Thursday night in the Hamilton Park neighborhood, authorities said.
L trains traveling to and from the Loop were experiencing "major" delays Wednesday morning due to signal problems, according to an alert from the Chicago Transit Authority.
Police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found on a set of subway tracks along the Blue Line near the LaSalle Street station overnight.
The Regional Transportation Authority is taking United Airlines to court.
A body was discovered on the L train tracks near the LaSalle Blue Line station early Monday, police said.
The price of a one-day pass will nearly double, from $5.75 to $10. A three-day pass that now costs $14 will cost $20. The seven-day pass will increase in price from $23 to $28 and the 30-day pass will increase in price from $86 to $100.
A man was arrested in the River North neighborhood this week, after threatening to blow up a CTA bus during the evening rush hour.
She remembered the drugs, but not the child. Police say when a South Side who left her 3-year-old granddaughter on a CTA bus in the South Loop was arrested Wednesday night, they found heroin in her pocket.
A passenger attacked the driver of a CTA bus, which then crashed into a parked car Monday in the North Side Albany Park neighborhood, police said.
Service on the CTA's Pink Line has been suspended between the 54th/Cermak and Polk stations because of the fire, which is near CTA property between California and Western avenues.
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