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Written By: Alfie Martin on February 24, 2011 No Comment
Me and Charley at Nicholas Senn High School

Back on Tuesday, January 25th during the evening at 7pm, I got off the Red Line train at Bryn Mawr. I walked westbound on Ridge Ave and I made it to the historic Nicholas Senn High School for the CTA meeting, Red and Purple Line Modernization. Red and Purple Line stations will [...]

Written By: Transit Organizer on July 24, 2010 No Comment
Who is Oscar Grant?

Do you know who Oscar Grant is? Do you know what happened to him on the train platfrom in Oakland? Have you seen this on TV, in the newspaper, on the radio?

Check out Youth Radio’s Grant Station: A Killing and the Aftermath.

Written By: alinares on July 9, 2010 One Comment
Transit Action Meeting-Blogging

July 9, 2010 meeting. LVEJO Transit organizer, Mike Pitula,  assisted 3 people set up a blog. ^ people were able to attend the meeting.

The LVEJO transit meeting overviewed:

-LVEJO’s participation in the US Social Forum

-Saw the article on the rally for next week (July 14, 2010 at 10:00am at CTA Headquarters Building 567 W. Lake.

For more info [...]

Written By: king1028skwirl on March 24, 2010 No Comment

A rally against mass transit service cuts in Chicago took place on Dec. 9, 2009. Carlos Acevedo, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 241, told a large protest crowd in front of CTA headquarters: “It seems the riding public gets numb to it because it seems not to happen, they get bailed [...]

Written By: Transit Organizer on March 14, 2010 No Comment
Labor Beat:  Rally for Mass Transit

A two-part show

On CAN TV Chicago cable tv Channel 19:

Thurs.,  Feb. 18, 9:30 pm
Fri., Feb. 19, 4:30 pm
Thurs., Feb. 25, 9:30 pm
Fri., Feb. 26, 4:30 pm

On Evanston Cable Channel 6:

Mon., March 1, 5:30 pm
Wed., March 3, 9:00 pm
Sat., March 6, 12:30 am
Mon., March 8, 5:30 pm
Wed. March 10, 9:00 pm
Sat., March 13, 12:30 am

1. Rally [...]

Written By: Transit Organizer on February 25, 2010 No Comment

We’ve had a couple updates from riders on how the Doomsday is affecting them.  So far here is what we’ve heard:

One rider from the Art Institute to Little Village told us a one train, one bus trip that normally takes 40 minutes took an hour.  There was a longer wait on both [...]

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Written By: Transit Organizer on February 11, 2010 No Comment
Doomsday 2010 – Day 3

Doomsday 2010 – Day 3

Graffitti near the Kostner station, 2006

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