Orange Line, Red Line Environmental Impact Meetings.
One of our members attended CTA’s latest meetings Orange and Red Line Extension Meetings. Here are a few notes.
These meetings gave a chance for community input on environmental impacts.
Everyone’s comments were generally positive for both lines.
Orange Line
CTA is only planning to build 2 stations on the extension at Marquette [...]
Title: ADA Paratransit HearingLocation: Arturo Velasquez Institute (Westside Technical Inst.)Description: Attention Passengers
Public Hearing Notice! Public hearings will be held to discuss:
ADA Paratransit Fare Increase
Discontinuation of ADA Paratransit Chicago Monthly Pass
Discontinuation of Free ADA Paratransit Transfers from City to Suburb
Reduction of Reservation Hours
Any persons wishing to comment on the above topics may present views orally [...]
Cop Beats Bus Driver Unconscious
Five days after a Latino bus driver was beaten, the many video cameras on board this #62 Archer bus remain unreleased to the public. The attacker remains uncharged of a crime.
The police officers on the bus failed to prevent this attack. They failed to prevent the assailant from reboarding the bus [...]
Olympic CTA Bus Ads Anger Citizens
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Got off a streetcar and killed by a motor car. A metaphor for our age.
110 years ago today, Henry Hale Bliss (June 13, 1830 – September 14, 1899) was the first person killed in a motor vehicle accident in the Western Hemisphere. On September 13, 1899 he was disembarking from a streetcar at West 74th [...]
Title: Transit Riders for Public Transportation – DC Advocacy Day
Location: Washington, DC
Link out: Click here
Description: Call your Congresspeople.
Tell them to support operations funding for mass transit and civil rights guarantees.
Date: 2009-09-10
Transit Riders for Public Transportation
CALL-IN DAY – THURSDAY, SEPT 10
LVEJO goes to Washington, DC to meet with Congresspeople about the crisis in transit operations funding [...]
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