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 [...]

Doomsday 2010 – Day 3

Graffitti near the Kostner station, 2006

Chicago, Jan. 18, 2010

http://publicworkersunite.org/

A coalition of public workers targeted several locations in Chicago’s Loop to dramatize the areas of the public sector that are being dismantled by corporation-controlled government.

To commemorate Martin Luther King day, on Jan. 18, 2010, Public Workers Unite began at Chicago Transit Authority headquarters, then marched [...]

CLICK HERE TO SEE A LABOR BEAT VIDEO ON THE CTA CUTS!

Chicago public transit riders and workers have become fed up with the perennial funding crises that always translate into service cuts and attacks on working conditions and jobs. There needs to be a positive social solution with adequate funding, and transit riders and [...]