CTA Moves Ahead With Plan For New 'L' Cars
Nearly a year has passed since the Chicago Transit Authority began testing the prototypes for its newest 'L' cars in everyday service.
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Nearly a year has passed since the Chicago Transit Authority began testing the prototypes for its newest 'L' cars in everyday service.
A 17-year-old boy was shot in the back by three males soon after the trio had gotten off a CTA bus on the South Side Sunday afternoon.
The transit agency is paying big bucks for red-light tickets, but CTA officials say bus drivers can be fired for too many violations.
Many of us are sweating a bit about the spiking cost of fuel -- but not the CTA. The transit agency has locked in lower fuel prices for 2011.
A construction worker was injured early Tuesday while working on the CTA Yellow Line in Skokie, reportedly after a steel beam fell on the worker's leg.
Late night Blue Line riders should allow extra travel time this week as overnight construction is expected to cause minor delays.
The CTA Blue Line cleared out on the Northwest Side early Friday, after a report of smoke in a subway tunnel.
A teen was stabbed in the leg during a fight near a North Side CTA station.
Power was cut briefly to the CTA Yellow Line in north suburban Skokie this morning after a car struck a train and kept going.
A west suburban woman had a blood alcohol level of .188 when she crashed a Jeep into a median early Friday, sending the vehicle flying over freight tracks onto the CTA Blue Line tracks in west suburban Oak Park.
Icy, slippery conditions shut down caused numerous problems on the roads, and also the CTA Green Line on the South Side this morning.
Overnight Blue Line riders should allow extra travel time this week as track construction is expected to cause minor delays.
Parts of the CTA Blue Line were shut down early Friday, after a car flipped off an overpass onto the tracks.
Blue Line trains in both directions will operate on the same track between the Grand and LaSalle stations from 11 p.m. until 4 a.m As a result, passengers must board and exit all trains on the O'Hare-bound side of the platform.
A sexual assault suspect was killed Saturday night when he reportedly jumped in front of a CTA train on the South Side.
Senior citizens continue to flood the RTA, CTA, Metra and Pace asking if their free ride cards are still good, in the wake of Gov. Pat Quinn's decision Monday to sign legislation limiting the program to low-income seniors.
Police are looking for a 16-year-old girl who spoke to her mother Monday while heading to work on a CTA bus and hasn't been seen or heard from since.
A man who robbed an Evanston cell phone store tried to make his getaway on the nearby CTA Red Line, but police caught up to him after just one stop on the "L" on Tuesday.
The gunfire erupted Monday afternoon near South Shore High School, where the male victims are students.
The newest rapid transit cars on the CTA are heading back to the transit agency's most heavily-used route.
Overnight Blue Line riders should allow extra travel time this week as track construction is expected to cause minor delays.
The CTA will operate special shuttle buses for people attending the 2011 Chicago Auto Show, and will provide service during all show hours on three regular bus routes.
A stalled Red Line train forced the CTA to reroute northbound subway trains to the elevated tracks during rush hour Friday evening.
A security guard contracted by the CTA handcuffed and sexually abused a teenage boy who jumped a turnstile on the Orange Line over the weekend, Cook County prosecutors said Thursday.
Two teenage boys were arrested early this morning and charged as juveniles, after allegedly assaulting one man and robbing another on a Red Line train in the Loop.
