Chicago Transit Authority

The Chicago Transit Authority is seeking increased funding for day-to-day transit operations throughout the region, not a "bailout" or a "money grab" from Metra. It is instructive to look to...

This is in response to "Free rides" (Voice of the people, July 6). The letter writer highlighted incidents where she observed some Chicago Transit Authority bus operators allowing customers to...

The Chicago Transit Authority has appreciated the Tribune's prompt and fair responses when factual errors have been brought to its attention. Unfortunately an exception seems to be made when columnist...

In response to growing ridership and changing travel patterns, the Chicago Transit Authority recently introduced an ambitious plan to enhance bus service along both North and South Lake Shore Drive....

Tribune writer Jon Hilkevitch wrote about a recent class project undertaken by students at Columbia College which concluded that there is a high level of noise produced by the CTA's...

Last week's state budget story "Ryan pork unites candidates" (Metro, Jan. 14) should set off alarms for area commuters and everyone who is concerned about the health of Illinois' infrastructure,...

Your Dec. 13 editorial "The third rail of financing" was aptly titled. The third rail is what energizes and powers the Chicago Transit Authority rail system. Likewise the bond issuance...

The extension of the Lake Street "L" from Market Street (now Wacker Drive) to Wabash brought riders to the heart of downtown for the first time. It also led the...

Although I greatly appreciate the pro-Chicago Transit Authority sentiments expressed in the Nov. 6 letter from Aldermen Leslie Hairston (5th), Freddrenna Lyle (6th), Ted Thomas (15th) and Ricardo Munoz (22nd),...