Transit Group Applauds Shake-UP of Service Boards
Citizens Taking Action, an organization comprised of transit dependent riders, applauds the recent introduction of measures in the Illinois State Legislature calling for replacement of all the current mass-transit board members. The initiatives would eliminate salaries, health care and pensions for board members at the Regional Transportation Authority, the [...]
Bus, rail unions rally for more U.S. transit funding
March 29, 2010 – SUN-TIMES STAFF
Transit unions representing bus and rail workers are organizing rallies around the country in the next few weeks to
push for more federal funding for public transit.
Operation PUSH hosted a rally for more than [...]
RALLY / TRANSIT SUMMIT FOR FUNDING!!
Funding is the only SOLUTION!
lnternational President Warren George.
ATU Local 308 President Robert Kelly and ATU Local 241 P resident Darrell Jefferson and others will be in attendance
ATU Representatives will be there from around the country
When: March 27th
Where: Rainbow Push Goalition Headquarters
930 E. 50th Street [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
LVEJO opposes eliminating Senior Free Rides. We have many low income seniors in Little Village who need the support of having free rides on CTA, Pace, and Metra.
LVEJO opposes limiting Senior Free Rides to low income seniors.
Undocumented immigrants pay taxes to fund this program, but cannot qualify for Circuit Breaker, the low income program of [...]
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