31st Street Bus receives 3rd most comments at RTA Hearings

Bus service for 31st Street is Priority #3 for the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) , officials said Thursday at the October RTA Board meeting.

RTA’s Sr. Deputy Executive Director, Leanne Redden outlined RTA’s priorities as Chicago’s transit system faces massive budget shortfalls.

The first priority is to [...]

Got off a streetcar and killed by a motor car.  A metaphor for our age.

110 years ago today, Henry Hale Bliss (June 13, 1830 – September 14, 1899) was the first person killed in a motor vehicle accident in the Western Hemisphere. On September 13, 1899 he was disembarking from a streetcar at West [...]

Title: Transit Riders for Public Transportation – DC Advocacy Day
Location: Washington, DC
Link out: Click here
Description: Call your Congresspeople.
Tell them to support operations funding for mass transit and civil rights guarantees.
Date: 2009-09-10

Transit Riders for Public Transportation

CALL-IN DAY – THURSDAY, SEPT 10

LVEJO goes to Washington, DC to meet with Congresspeople about the crisis [...]

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WHAT:        Transit Riders National Day of Action
WHEN:         Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 10:00 am
WHERE:      Congressman Daniel Lipinski’s Office,
6245 S. Archer Avenue

Cities across the US are facing transit cuts.  Federal operations funding can help close budget gaps.

Additional funding would also mean starting new projects such as the 31st Street Bus [...]

LVEJO goes to DC, Tuesday, June 9, 2009.
We are going with Transit Riders for Public Transportation (TRPT).

Click the Title for more details!

Check out these pics from our Earth Day Press Conference: Public Transit for a Green Chicago.  We spoke to the media at LVLHS, the only CPS high school with no regular CTA bus route!

Basta de excusas! Queremos autobuses!

Kimberly Wasserman Nieto explains the benefit of federal funding to operate 31st Street Buses and other [...]