CTA, Pace and Metra
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The Bus Priority Corridor Study will explore ways to make bus travel faster, more convenient, and more comfortable on five specific routes, the CTA said.
Stiff opposition to a tax package floated this week by Illinois House Democrats seemed to leave a transit deal in jeopardy as the CTA, Metra and Pace stare down a fiscal crisis.
Chicago-area residents and visitors will have to find alternative modes of transportation in the Loop, as most CTA trains will not be operating in the downtown area.
Regional transit agencies have seen their budget gap decrease from $771 million to $202 million. But if that budget hole is not plugged, major service cuts could be in order, advocates warned.
The CTA, or any successor transit authority, must assume responsibility for emergency and safety services at its facilities, writes the mayor of Forest Park.
The CTA warned that riders should plan ahead and allow for extra trave time, as "rail service outside the Loop may also be delayed."
As Chicagoans sound the alarm over potentially crippling cuts to the CTA, suburban counties are hitting the gas on their own transit solution.
Chicago police on Sunday morning were looking for multiple people who beat up a man on a Chicago Transit Authority Red Line train the night before.
The 26-year-old man was found unresponsive Monday on the street in the 3400 block of North Ashland Avenue, Chicago police said.
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