The first two of 11 Redbox kiosks have been installed at the Wellington Brown Line station and the Blue Line UIC-Halsted Station. more ›

CTA has a do-it-yourself transit info display that "makes it easy for anyone with some computer savvy" to put together a slideshow of bus and train route arrival times so that folks reliant on public transportation don't, for example, freeze their little piggies waiting for a caravan of Clark Street buses. more ›

Folks using the Stevenson Expressway to travel to and from the city take note: Pace's pilot program where buses will ride on the shoulder of the expressway begins today. more ›

Metra's Board of Directors is set to vote today on fare increases an average of 25 percent they say are necessary to close a budget gap of $53.6 million. more ›

Jacob Van Order believes so, which is why he created QuickTrain, an iPhone app that allows users to quickly tap into the Train Tracker data stream in order to find out when the next train is approaching the station closest to their current location, and bookmark those stations they use most. more ›

Free rides on CTA, Metra and Pace for all but the poorest of seniors ends today. more ›

If anything, Claypool sounded as though a fare hike may be in the cards for next year. more ›

RTA warns of service cuts if they don't receive the $400 million owed them by Springfield by next month. That's news to Metra and CTA. more ›

According to information acquired by the Chicago Tribune, 51 CTA bus and rail employees have been investigated over the past year for using "personal cell phones and other electronic devices" like iPods while on duty, which has led to 11 firings. There were 27 incidents that were dismissed due to lack of evidence, and 13 bus drivers are still suspended without pay while investigations continue. more ›

Not happy with the CTA's plans for cutbacks and layoffs, one CTA Union is preparing to dig in its heels. At a news conference yesterday, Robert Kelly, head of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 308 (representing rail workers) said, "Public transit is not going away in a city this size. We need to fund it, and doing this year after year and now saying we need working people to take the cuts is not the way to do it." He also criticized the CTA for not trimming enough management fat, and for spending $654,000 on financial consultants over the last year. more ›