CTA

The CTA Yellow Line, aka the Skokie Swift, which runs between Skokie and Rogers Park, has remained out of commission for nearly a month since November 16, when a run crashed into a snow removal machine at Howard Street station. Slowing the train down is the first step to bringing it back.

The agency credited a series of Taylor Swift shows at Soldier Field, plus popular concerts and festivals in various neighborhoods, for lifting the number of passengers in early June.

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This week’s Chicago Reader “First Tuesdays with Maya [Dukmasova] & Ben [Joravsky]” at Nighthawk on the topic of “Public Transit Crisis” lived up to the theme. The conversation with state representative Kam Buckner and activist (and former Streetsblog reporter) Lynda Lopez touched on familiar CTA woes: the ongoing triple-whammy of sub-par cleanliness, safety, and reliability; […]

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Is the Windy City on the brink of getting the federal funding it needs to extend one of its most crucial transit lines?