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The budget aims to further elevate the transit experience by prioritizing investments that address what’s most important to our riders, including system security, accessibility, reliability, and safety.
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The news delivers on CTA President Dorval R. Carter Jr.’s commitment to provide pre-pandemic levels of rail service by end of year. With this new schedule, CTA is adding over 1,200 weekly rail trips when compared to the Spring 2024 schedule.
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The proposed spending budget reflects an 8.1% increase (or $161.1 million) over the previous year’s budget and supports CTA’s ongoing workforce initiatives for hiring, training, and retaining key operations personnel to provide service levels that exceed 2019/pre-pandemic levels.
Read More →Launched earlier this year, Innovation Studio was designed to allow CTA to pilot solutions and new technologies for some of CTA’s biggest challenges. This year, three problem statements were released to solicit proposals from the private sector.
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The research, led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s ANL, found a robust investment in transit service would result in a 53% increase in transit boardings in the region, with a 9% travel time savings and 11% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
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The technology has already been implemented in a variety of settings including other major transit agencies, schools, and more, and is also currently in use at Chicago’s Navy Pier.
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Nearly a dozen bus routes are receiving additional service, as the CTA continues to add more bus operators into service — the result of the agency’s aggressive recruitment and hiring efforts.
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The Chicago Transit Board approved the award of a $2.9 billion contract to Walsh-VINCI Transit Community Partners following a comprehensive, two-year procurement process.
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The state-of-the-art station addresses a longstanding need for improved transit options on the Near West Side that benefits residents, supports local growth and job creation in the Kinzie Industrial Corridor, and accommodates large crowds attending events at the nearby United Center.
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The comprehensive plan was first unveiled in 2018 and is an evolving document that will be updated over time to reflect the ongoing planning, modernization, and construction work as envisioned by CTA’s capital program.
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