CDOT, working with Metra and Amtrak, worked from the bottom up on this study, incorporating ideas suggested in previous studies, modifying others, and coming up with new ideas to anticipate continued growth in Amtrak ridership and commuter rail and the hopeful advent of high-speed rail. more ›

The station had been closed for years when CTA tore the station down in the 60s and the route became an express shuttle between Dempster and Howard. Skokie residents have lobbied hard for the Oakton station's return for more than a decade. more ›

Authorities haven't said if Mckee urinated on the electrified rail, but that hasn't stopped CBS Chicago or WLS-AM from speculating about that in their headlines to the story. more ›

The new rail cars by Bombardier Transit Corp. were pulled from tracks last December after flaws were discovered in Chinese-manufactured parts in the cars' rail truck assemblies. more ›

CTA announced they'll be upgrading train track along the Wells and Van Buren L tracks. It's a 16-week project that will shut down Wells Street to traffic from Madison to Van Buren beginning April 20. Some of the track scheduled for upgrading are over 100 years old. more ›

The ads still will not be allowed on buses, but haven't alcohol ads always been on bus shelters? Weren't we all punished enough by those Kim Kardashian Midori ads? more ›

CTA today announced it provided 531,960,253 rides in 2011. more ›

A Chicago Transit Authority inspection of the new 5000 series "New York Style" train cars purchased by Bombardier Transit Corp. contained parts from China that could break and lead to a derailment. more ›

The Chicago Transit Authority is auctioning off unused supplies to raise cash. more ›

Tribune transportation reporter John Hilkevitch reports this morning on a survey from the Chicago Transit Authority asking for customer opinions on "hypothetical fare scenarios" such as a $3.50 bus ride or a $150 30-day pass. more ›

How did the Chicago History Museum get the city's first elevated train car in the museum? Very carefully, as you'll see in this video. more ›

Three Purdue researchers theorized that transit systems across the country could learn a lot from negative tweets and set out to chart the levels of positive and negative tweets about CTA. more ›

An 18-year-old man was arrested for standing completely naked on the Howard red line el platform in Rogers Park on Wednesday evening. more ›

Taking a page from train robbers like Jesse James, four teenagers disabled a CTA bus, boarded it, beat the driver and robbed its passengers. How could that happen, and will it happen again? more ›

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

The CTA's Holiday train has a few runs left, so we decided to put together a gallery of some of our favorite photographs of the train from the CTA's Flickr pool for your viewing. Until the train runs next year, enjoy. more ›

CTA was awarded a TIGER grant to repair the 3.5 mile slow zone stretch of Blue Line tracks between Damen and Belmont. 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 ›

The Chicago Transit Authority debuted the first of 706 new rail cars earlier this month, the first new modernization of the agency's rail line since 1992. more ›

If approved, the plan would be implemented in a couple of years and could serve as a model for a universal fare card for CTA, Metra and Pace. more ›

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is unhappy with the city of Chicago and the CTA, so she is taking matters into her own hands. more ›

This woman decided if she couldn't ride the bus south on Broadway, then nobody can. more ›

The Chicago Transit Authority announced the 2011 holiday train schedule. 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 ›

'Tis the season to huddle around the glowing lights of the heat lamps on CTA platforms, one of those little things that make us love Chicago. more ›

Christopher Buchanan and Derrell Hughes were riding a southbound 146 bus holding hands and kissing when, according to Buchanan, a white woman approached the driver as the bus reached downtown to complain. more ›

The funds are from the state, which brings the total dollar allotment for project at $1 billion. more ›

If the front page to their feed means anything, CTA will probably tweet in groups of 3-5 tweets over a 20-minute period, then you won't see anything for another hour. more ›

Claypool held the line at not raising fares or cutting services in the $1.24 billion budget if - and this is one hell of an "if" - unions agree to work rule changes and deep cuts in management more ›

The new security cameras will round out the promised 1,500 extra security cameras at various train stations around the city. more ›