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 [...]

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 [...]

Transit is a sleeper issue in race for Chicago mayor – chicagotribune.com.

Chicago taxi co. to use natural-gas powered cabs | Transportation | Crain’s Chicago Business

Natural gas burns much cleaner in the city and reduces air pollution. That is a good thing.

But it should be noted that natural gas is a fossil fuel. It still has environmental impacts where it is mined.

Burning it [...]

CTA wins grant for bus rapid transit experiment – chicagotribune.com.

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.

International President Larry Hanley convened representatives of all of the major transit and labor groups working to address the mass transit crisis in the United States.

Reformer Elected to Head ATU Transit Union | Labor Notes.