For Immediate Release
Attention: News Assignment
PRESS RELEASE
Contacts:
Michael Pitula
Community Organizer
Little Village Environmental Justice Organization
773-762-6991
publictransit[AT]lvejo[dot]org
CTA IGNORES 31ST STREET
Bus riders experience 13 year wait for bus to arrive.
WHAT/WHEN: Wed, Aug 10th, 2011
10:00 am public comment at CTA Board Meeting, 2nd Floor
Press conference immediately following Board Meeting, outside on sidewalk.
WHERE: CTA, 567 [...]
Transit Meeting
Saturday May 7th at 10am
El Pollo Real
3823 W 31st Street
Agenda Items
Proposed 31st Street Bus Service
IWW Bus Coop
DC Visit
Freedom Riders
National Train Day
The Transportation Situation #1
Little Village - This week I spoke to a couple bus riders who have been having problems with bus service in Little Village.
A student travelling north from Marquette Park to Little Village complained of a 25 minute wait Monday afternoon for a 20 minute bus ride. When they got off the bus, they [...]
CHICAGO – Thursday, February 17, 2010, labor and community groups united in a downtown demonstration for transit – for jobs, service and clean air. The demonstration was part of a series of national actions coordinated by Transit Riders for Public Transportation – a national civil rights and environmental justice campaign to shape federal transportation policy.
Little [...]
My Radio Arte – First Voice piece regarding the 31st Street Cooperative featuring interviews with Chicago IWW Branch & Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) activist Mike Pitula & residents of Little Village.
Pplinterviews31st by metro3pesos
December 12th, 2010
Welcome to First Voice on Radio Arte, broadcasting live every Tuesday from the heart of [...]
Alderman Munoz pushing for community hospital
It’s election time and Ald Ricardo Munoz has big plans. Moving St. Anthony’s Hospital to 31st Street would mean a boost in ridership for the proposed 31st Street Bus.
The Chicago IWW and LVEJO have been looking into what it would take to form a worker self-managed, community-controlled transit cooperative to run bus service along the 31st St. corridor. We are exploring the possibility of a better service, owned by those who operate it, with union-scale wages and benefits, for less [...]
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