Mercy, CTA. Uncle. Whatever you want. We give up. You're eliminating every bus we ever take, charging us more for every packed, smelly ride, and now, you're stealing our identities, too. CTA customer service rep Miranda Smith was arrested last week and charged with official misconduct, one count of aggravated identity theft, and three counts of identity theft. (Aggravated identity theft means the victim is over 60 or disabled, or that the crime occurred "in... more ›

It's all in the timing. Chicagoist stayed a little later at work yesterday to get some exercise time in (believe it!), so we ended up taking the Purple Line home at around 6:45 p.m. As we traveled through the Loop, the conductor informed us that we wouldn't be stopping at Adams & Wabash. When we got there, it was easy to see why. Fire trucks galore were piled up back to the Art Institute. A CTA operative on the platform was quite insistent that the station was closed "by order of the fire department." Intrigue, she wrote! We hoped this didn't mean the station itself was on fire, or that it would be closed for a long amount of time. Per usual, information on the scene was very scanty. more ›

One of the first things our drivers' ed teacher told us was that if we ever had to park on a hill, we had to turn the wheels so that the car wouldn't roll away if the brakes gave out. We used to think this was just the kind of paranoid tales that cranky old guys wearing short-sleeved dress shirts with ties like to tell to scare kids, but now we've seen it happen. more ›

A CTA bus driver may need to have his mouth washed out with soap after launching into an expletive-laced tirade at an elderly woman on his bus. The woman boarded the 157 Streeterville bus around 5 p.m. on Monday. It’s not clear what the woman did as she boarded, but she sat right behind the driver and he then yelled for her to “get back up there,” according to Naperville resident Gwen Sylvain. The elderly... more ›

A CTA driver was stabbed in the empty bus he was driving and a car got in an accident and landed on the Red Line tracks. Not your normal, more ›

Greg Hinz reports today in Crain's that tomorrow the CTA will formally solicit business plans from bidders on how to create, pay for and operate an express service to O'Hare and Midway from downtown. Estimates say the fare will be around $15 (will people pay that?) for the 20 to 25 minute ride to O'Hare. more ›

Looks like we're going to need those Dunkies on the L�you can get a ticket for falling asleep on the train. Guarav Bhatia was handed a $50 ticket for dozing off on the Orange Line on his way to Midway, but it's not totally clear exactly why. A CTA spokeswoman told everyone's favorite liberal propagandist John Kass that more ›