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The Red Line is a rapid transit line in Chicago, run by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) as part of the Chicago "L" system. It is the busiest line on the "L" system, with an average of 108,303 passengers boarding each weekday in 2023 [1] The route is 21.8 miles (35.1 km) long with a total of 33 stations.
This is a route-map template for the Red Line (CTA), a Chicago elevated railway.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The system expanded outward from this with new branches or line extensions until 1930. Due to the ruined financial state of the privately owned Chicago Rapid Transit Company and the Chicago Surface Lines , a public agency (the CTA) was created in 1947 to take over and save the rapid transit and streetcar systems. [ 6 ]
An idea first floated more than 50 years ago to extend the Chicago Transit Authority's Red Line to the Far South Side is closer to becoming a reality with nearly $2B in federal funding now secured.
In 2023, the CTA bus system had a ridership of 161,699,200, or about 577,600 per weekday as of the third quarter of 2024. Routes running 24 hours a day, seven days a week are: The N4 (between 63rd/Cottage Grove and Washington/State only), N9 (between 95th/Dan Ryan (Red) and North/Clark only), N20 (between Washington/State and Austin),
After World War II, the CTA built three new branches of the "L" through the medians of freeways. The first was the Congress Branch, which opened on June 22, 1958. On July 30, 1958, proposals for a line in the median of the Dan Ryan Expressway and a line in the median of the Kennedy Expressway were among a series of projects proposed by the CTA. [2]
During the 1950s, the CTA implemented skip-stop service throughout the 'L' system. Under this service pattern, Chicago was designated as AB along with all other downtown stations (on the Red Line, those stops south of Clark/Division and north of Cermak–Chinatown were given AB designations). [5] As a result, all trains stopped at these stations.
The Arts in Transit Program is funded by the Federal Transit Administration, and created opportunities to develop original artwork for station reconstruction projects along the CTA Red and Brown Lines. Artists were selected for each of the stations included in the Brown Line Capacity Expansion Project and select renovated Red Line stations.