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In 2004, the CTA, projecting a $55 million funding shortfall in its 2005 budget, called for a "long term funding solution," involving a change to the sales tax distribution formula in the RTA Act. [20] In response, the Illinois General Assembly appropriated $54 million to cover the cost of CTA's paratransit service for 2005. [21]
One year after unveiling a broad plan to address CTA service and safety challenges, President Dorval Carter touted decreases in crime on the transit system and service that runs more closely to ...
The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) is the operator of mass transit in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and some of its suburbs, including the trains of the Chicago "L" and CTA bus service. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 279,146,200, or about 993,700 per weekday as of the third quarter of 2024.
The CTA developed nine different proposed routes, one of which includes routing the Red Line down the median of the Bishop Ford Freeway and another in the median of Interstate 57. During an alternatives analysis meeting on April 11, 2007, CTA narrowed further study down to five possible routes, two for bus rapid transit and three for heavy rail ...
A new day pass could soon allow CTA, Metra and Pace users to pay for rides across all three systems’ buses and trains, a step toward long-awaited complete integration of fares among the region ...
Dorval Ronald Carter Jr. is an American businessman and executive who served as the President Board of the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) from 2015 until resigning in January 2025. [1] [2] He has previously worked in transportation-related organizations including the Federal Transit Administration and the United States Department of ...
Drivers stuck on the Eisenhower Expressway and CTA Red Line riders looking to travel south of the 95th Street terminus, in particular, hope to find solutions to their problems in the $1.2 ...
Each net addition to the Elevated system has added to the transportation accessibility of the Loop. The first formal transit plan in Chicago was the Burnham Plan of 1909, which described an extensive rapid transit and streetcar subway system in, and connected to, the central area. Many elements (some transposed with bus service in place of ...