I feel negligent in not mentioning sooner that for those interested in transit funding (and that should be just about anyone interested in Carless in Chicago), Greg Hinz over at Crain’s has been doing a great job covering the latest developments down in Springfield. In his latest blog post, he mentions a topic that [...]
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This month, Governing magazine (which I used to read a lot more often when I knew their art director) runs an interesting profile of Richard Rodriguez, who currently serves as head of the CTA. I don’t know that much about Rodriguez, but I’m certainly familiar with his reputation as an agency fixer (which he [...] All guidebooks contain some out of date information by the time they get published, and Carless in Chicago is no exception. Unfortunately, the CTA ensured that I’d have a bumper crop of such information when they introduced service cuts earlier this when the book was already too far along in the production process to [...] Courtesy of today’s Getting Around column in the tribune, two updates of interest to CTA riders: The CTA has abandoned plans to convert more rail cars to the “Maxi” configuration with fewer seats and more room for standing passengers. (However, existing Maxi cars, which I believe all remain on the Brown Line, will not [...] The Sun Times published a nifty interactive graphic on its web site this week that gives approximate costs to the various kinds of regular capital expenditures made by the CTA. (I can’t quite determine what article it relates to, but this gives me an excuse to link to the Sun Times’ transportation blog, The [...] Gold Line Proposal It’s not really a new story, but today’s Tribune has a nice write up about the grassroots “Gold Line” proposal to bring better mass transit to parts of the city’s South Side. Much like the earlier “Gray Line” proposal (second item in link), a key component to the plan involves [...] In today’s Chicago Tribune, Jon Hilkevich wades into the CTA’s somewhat complicated fare structure, suggesting that because of recent changes, many riders might want to re-evaluate whether or not switching to a 30-day pass would save them money. Excellent advice, although I ‘d also add that if you regularly use mass transit you should [...] The Chicago Tribune has a brief but interesting story today giving it’s assessment of the best and worst El stations, along with a nice interactive graphic showing changes in ridership since 2000 by every station in the system. Quite interesting, although I’m not sure you can make a clear connection between the state of [...] |
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