CTA: give us the letter!

CTA needed to send a letter to FTA – the Federal Transit Administration – asking to protect funds for the 31st Street Bus Route. They needed to send it before Sept 30, 2011.  CTA officials claim the letter was sent but have not provided the Campaign with a copy [...]

Chicago – After 2 months of public comment and letters falling on deaf ears, a group of young women from Little Village broke through to CTA about the need for a 31st Street Bus. Organizers with the  Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) and Young Activists Organizing as Today’s [...]

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

2 LVEJO organizers wrote for this issue. Please come out and celebrate with us.

Busy Building Buslines
LVEJO’s efforts to improve public transit
The Infrastructure of Survival

Who Owns Chicago’s Water System?

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On October 1, 2010, AREA Chicago is releasing its tenth issue: Institutions & Infrastructures at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E [...]

Alfie Martin got some shots of Soldier Field.  This should give folks a sense of what they can connect to with the proposed new 31st Street Bus Route

Getting ready for the 31st Street bus to go pass the Soldier Field to see Chicago Bears!!!!!!!!!

Stay tuned for updates on the Chicago Clean Air and Water Show. It was a hit. We had 30 riders on the 31st Street Bus Route to the beach.