Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Rail Transit

The South Shore Line's Ogden Dunes station. Photo: Igor Studenkov

Transit Development Districts will help fund TOD along the South Shore Line

By Igor Studenkov | Jan 4, 2021 | No Comments

These zones will collect property and income tax revenue to help subsidize infrastructure and development around stations, capitalizing on planned service upgrades.

Preckwinkle discussing the Fair Transit South Cook pilot at an Active Transportation Alliance annual meeting last year. Photo: ATA

On eve of South Side Metra pilot, Preckwinkle thanks advocates for “banging this drum”

By John Greenfield | Dec 23, 2020 | No Comments

"If you're going to look at things through an equity lens, you do the best to address inequities and past failures on the part of government."

Rendering of the upcoming 103rd Street station.

There’s movement on south Red Line extension, but service launch pushed back 3 years

By John Greenfield | Dec 22, 2020 | No Comments

Advocates say it's disappointing that South Siders will have a longer wait for service, but it's encouraging that the project is moving forward.

Before stimulus, advocates pushed for transparency on cuts. That’s still important.

By John Greenfield | Dec 22, 2020 | No Comments

The possibility of transit cuts is now less of an immediate threat. But it's still important for local transit agencies to be transparent about what would be cut in the event that the federal funding runs out.

Boarding a #157 Streeterville/Taylor bus this month on Michigan Avenue. Photo: John Greenfield

What will the new COVID stimulus bill mean for Chicagoland transit?

By John Greenfield | Dec 21, 2020 | No Comments

Chicago-area transit agencies and advocates are generally taking a glass-half-full view of the news, noting that in the short term the subsidy will prevent a "beyond-doomsday" scenario.

How do we make sure people who don't have cars have access to healthy food? Photo: Joseph Dennis

ATA’s transit justice talk discussed relationship between transit deserts, food insecurity

By Sharon Hoyer | Dec 19, 2020 | No Comments

These two basic needs are often unmet in Black and Brown communities, and are now exacerbated by the pandemic.

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