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A Metra worker uses "Ghostbusters"-like gear to sanitize an onboard restroom. Photo: Metra

Financially struggling Metra launches a marketing blitz to coax riders back onto trains

By John Greenfield | Sep 15, 2020 | No Comments

The new media juggernaut, dubbed "My Metra," includes ads on TV, traditional radio, streaming radio, billboards, social media, website, mailings and other formats.

The Woodlawn Station affordable TOD, next to the Cottage Grove Green Line station.

Chicago releases first-ever equitable transit-oriented development plan

By John Greenfield | Sep 14, 2020 | No Comments

A new equitable transit-oriented development plan published by the city today lays out steps for bringing affordable TOD to all parts of town.

Let’s lobby for fair sustainable transportation funding in Chicago’s 2021 budget

By John Greenfield | Sep 14, 2020 | No Comments

It may seem like an uphill battle during COVID, but it's important to remember that sustainable transportation investments generally provides excellent bang for the buck in terms of economic benefits.

A rendering of the proposed garage at Randolph and Ada streets.

Building a 500-car garage in the West Loop is counterproductive to fighting climate change

By Courtney Cobbs | Sep 11, 2020 | No Comments

A focus on car storage ignores the true costs of car-based infrastructure. Climate change poses an existential threat, and adding more parking for cars ignores that reality.

The CTA rolls out a new Ridership Information Dashboard for the ‘L’

By John Greenfield | Sep 10, 2020 | No Comments

Today the CTA announced its Ridership Information Dashboard has been expanded to include crowding data on the 'L'.

The new columns for the Belmont flyover. Photo: CTA

Here’s an update on the Red and Purple Modernization project a year into the project

By Lisa Phillips | Sep 8, 2020 | No Comments

All of the Belmont flyover columns were finished this summer, and temporary stations are being built in Uptown and Edgewater to allow for service as new ones are built.

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