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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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Bob Roberts Reporting
CHICAGO (WBBM) — As disgruntled riders paraded outside the CTA’s West Loop headquarters with picket signs, the agency’s board approved a 2010 budget that holds the line on fares but threatens service cuts Feb. 7.
“I think they would prefer to go with stability over the next two years,” said CTA [...]
Filed under: CTA, Chicagoland, Public Transportation, RTA, Trains, Transit Justice, bus, paratransit, seniors by king1028skwirl
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
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 in transit operations funding [...]
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
By: Ashmar Mandou
More than just a mode of transportation, buses and trains serve as the link between cultures and communities. Residents as well as tourists experience the cultural amenities Chicago has to offer by traveling to neighborhoods such as, Wicker Park, Pilsen, Greektown, and Humboldt Park, to name a few. And while these neighborhoods [...]
Filed under: 31st Street Bus, CTA, Chicagoland, Letters to the CTA, New Ideas, Public Transportation, Transit Justice, bus by Transit Justice
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
We will make art and promote the
31st STREET BUS
Monday, June 15
4pm to 7pm
Location: LVEJO, 2856 S Millard, Basement
CTA: #82 Kimball/Homan,
#60 Blue Island/26th Street
Hop on the Bus!
The Public Transit Campaign Leaders and Volunteers celebrate the release to CTA of the $1 [...]
Filed under: 31st Street Bus, CTA, Chicagoland, Environmental Justice, Public Transportation, Transit Justice, bus by Transit Justice
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
March 06, 2009
Ms. Michael Pitula
2856 S Millard Ave
Chicago, IL 60623
Dear Ms. Pitula:
Thank you for contacting me in support of transportation and infrastructure funding in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (H.R. 1). I appreciate hearing from you and share your support for this important priority.
The United States is facing its deepest economic [...]
Filed under: Public Transportation by Transit Justice
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