Metra Plans Online Auction Of Surplus Cars, Trucks
The Metra commuter rail agency serving the Chicago area is holding an online auction of surplus sedans, pick-ups and utility trucks.
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The Metra commuter rail agency serving the Chicago area is holding an online auction of surplus sedans, pick-ups and utility trucks.
Metra hit its monthly on-time performance goal with record numbers for October.
Metra's board of directors is expected to approve a fare increase Friday.
A Metra Union Pacific-Northwest train struck a pedestrian Saturday afternoon in northwest suburban Palatine.
Jaws dropped as fans and regular Friday commuters arrived at Union Station between 2:30 and 4 p.m., cascading like a sea of blue down the main staircase into the Great Hall with virtually no place to go.
Chicago Cubs fans started packing rail lines before the crack of dawn as they make their way downtown for the team's World Series parade and rally Friday morning.
A Park Forest man was arrested Tuesday for breaking into a commuter's vehicle at the Calumet Metra Station in south suburban East Hazel Crest.
A man and woman in their 70s were hurt Tuesday when their vehicle was struck by a Metra train in the South Shore neighborhood.
Metra has completed a rehabilitation of the 111th Street/Pullman Station on the Electric line in the Far South Side Pullman neighborhood.
Multiple trains on Metra's Union Pacific Northwest Line are operating up to 45 minutes behind schedule Tuesday morning after a vehicle got stuck on the tracks in northwest suburban Arlington Heights.
The Ventra app has been downloaded more than one million times in less than a year since its debut.
The commuter rail agency on Friday approved a preliminary "average" fare increase of nearly 6 percent that would take effect in February.
A person was fatally struck by a Metra train Monday night on the South Side.
The National Transportation Safety Board continues to investigate what caused Thursday's deadly commuter train crash in New Jersey. The accident is prompting questions about train safety here in Chicago. Could something called "positive train control" have prevented this?
A 75-year-old man who was struck by a train Sunday afternoon in west suburban Berkeley committed suicide, an autopsy Monday revealed.
The CTA and Metra will provide additional bus and rail service to accommodate customers going to Riot Fest, the Chicago Bears game and the Northwestern University football game this weekend.
Two days after a woman was hit in the head by falling debris at Union Station, Metra officials said the Madison Street entrance to the station has been closed until further notice.
A woman was struck and killed Thursday by an Amtrak Hiawatha Service train in Northbrook.
South Shore Line and Metra District trains were moving again Tuesday morning, after a power failure near Millennium Station downtown caused delays during the morning rush.
A pedestrian was fatally struck by a Metra train on the SouthWest Service line Thursday evening near southwest suburban Oak Lawn, according to the transit agency.
Tuesday morning's storms caused hundreds of Metra passengers to be late, after lightning apparently struck a Union Pacific-North Line train.
Roseanna Slawson was struck by an inbound Milwaukee District North train about 11:30 p.m. near the Forest Glen station, 5310 N. Forest Glen Ave., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office and a Metra spokeswoman. She was pronounced dead at 4:33 a.m.
A southwest suburban woman is credited with talking a grieving teen out of jumping in front of a train Friday evening.
Commuters on Metra's Electric Line should prepare for 10-minute delays and altered schedules as major work begins Monday on the line that runs from the city to the south suburbs.
A body of a man discovered near Metra tracks on Tuesday near the Bloomingdale Trail on the Northwest side was struck by a train, according to authorities.
