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Written By: Transit Justice on March 10, 2010 No Comment

Chicago, Jan. 20, 2010

Chicago Transit Authority union members and CTA transit users protested in front of the CTA headquarters on Wednesday, January 20.

The ongoing and future threatened cuts by the CTA management will double wait times for bus riders, cut service to low income/minority areas, overcrowd buses and trains, to [...]

Written By: king1028skwirl on January 18, 2010 No Comment

Chicago, Jan. 18, 2010

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A coalition of public workers targeted several locations in Chicago’s Loop to dramatize the areas of the public sector that are being dismantled by corporation-controlled government.

To commemorate Martin Luther King day, on Jan. 18, 2010, Public Workers Unite began at Chicago Transit Authority headquarters, then marched [...]

Written By: king1028skwirl on October 17, 2009 No Comment

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 [...]

Written By: king1028skwirl on October 17, 2009 No Comment

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 [...]

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