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For decades, Americans all over the country have taken rides in trains pulled by a legend and perhaps didn’t even know it.
This weekend’s Main Street Fair promises a day of art, community, food and, of course, music. Festivalgoers can also breathe a sigh of relief with milder ...
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Without urgent state funding, Chicago’s transit system faces deep cuts—putting the future of the Loop and the city’s economy at risk.
The Metra’s current 91 trains each weekday could be cut in half if a solution isn’t reached. Cuts to the Metra could take five or more years to undo because it shares track with freight trains and ...
If new funds do not come in, the agencies are predicting not only a drastic reduction in service, but also the cutting of thousands of jobs.
More than half of Chicago’s bus routes could be eliminated, at least parts of four “L” lines could shut down and Metra weekday service would be slashed to once an hour under a transit ...
MADISON - More coal trains would make it harder to extend Chicago's Metra service to proposed stops in Racine, Caledonia, Oak Creek and Milwaukee, an expert testified Wednesday.
The headline from a discussion last week of the prospects for Metra in the coming years was certainly attention-getting: “Metra could drop 40% of trains in 2027.” The potential for a reduction ...
An impending fiscal cliff has led to calls from some lawmakers and transit advocates for reform — perhaps as drastic as merging CTA, Metra, Pace, and RTA into a new regional agency. That’s an idea the ...