Friday, December 11th, 2009
We are living in a time of great crisis, but also great opportunity. It can be hard to wrap your head around the twin crises of the economy and the environment. Especially if your job is at stake, the bills are mounting, and it is just harder getting by. However, there is opportunity if we [...]
Filed under: CTA, Environmental Justice, Trains, Transit Justice, bus by Transit Justice
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
Residents across the seven-county region helped to “Invent the Future” from May to September 2009 via public outreach by the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP), which is developing GO TO 2040, the official comprehensive plan to guide development and infrastructure.
Click here to read a CMAP news release summarizing this phase of public input. [...]
Filed under: Chicagoland, Public Transportation by Transit Justice
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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
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 [...]
Filed under: CTA, Chicagoland, Public Transportation, Trains, Transit Justice, bus, seniors by king1028skwirl
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
CTA Circle Line Plan Makes Rounds
Some residents fear losing homes to construction
By Sue-Lyn Erbeck, Special to the Tribune
Friday, October 9, 2009
Plans for the long-awaited Circle Line, which would link CTA and Metra rail lines in Chicago’s growing central area, are a step closer to being realized after the Chicago Transit Authority completed its analysis of [...]
Filed under: CTA, Environmental Justice, New Ideas, Public Transportation, Trains, Transit Justice by Alfie Martin
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Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Cop Beats Bus Driver Unconscious
Five days after a Latino bus driver was beaten, the many video cameras on board this #62 Archer bus remain unreleased to the public. The attacker remains uncharged of a crime.
The police officers on the bus failed to prevent this attack. They failed to prevent the assailant from reboarding the bus [...]
Filed under: CTA, Daley, Environmental Justice, Public Transportation, Transit Justice, bus by Erek Slater
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