Extend the Red and Orange Lines!

October 27, 2009

Jeffrey Busby

General Manager, Strategic Planning

Chicago Transit Authority

P.O. Box 7602

Chicago, Illinois 60680-7602

Cc:  Richard L. Rodriguez, CTA President; Terry Peterson, CTA Board Chairman; Stephen Schlickman, RTA Executive Director;  Peter M. Rogoff, FTA Administrator;  John Paul Jones, Developing Communities Project.

RE: CTA Alternatives Analysis Projects: Red Line Extension, Orange Line Extension, Yellow [...]

By Kristen Schorsch
October 16, 2009

Seniors accustomed to boarding public transit in Chicago and surrounding suburbs without paying a cent might have to forgo that luxury.

Talk has returned among mass-transit officials in the area to discontinue a program that gives people 65 and older free rides on the CTA, Pace and Metra as the [...]

More hoops to jump through to get the free rides.

For immediate release
DATE: March 13, 2009
CONTACT: Diane Palmer, RTA Communications Director
Office: 312-913-3282 Cell: 312-907-6902

Seniors with reduced fare cards will be charged a reduced rate after April 1, 2009

CHICAGO – The Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) is reminding seniors who have not changed their senor reduced fare cards [...]

LVEJO opposes eliminating Senior Free Rides. We have many low income seniors in Little Village who need the support of having free rides on CTA, Pace, and Metra.

LVEJO opposes limiting Senior Free Rides to low income seniors.

Undocumented immigrants pay taxes to fund this program, but cannot qualify for Circuit Breaker, the low income program of [...]