The CTA also said it has seen continued growth in ridership in 2023, noting March 11 set a record high for Saturday ridership, with more than 660,000 rides, an increase of 23% over the same period ...

The CTA's power mix is cleaner from a climate perspective, because Chicago's unique reliance on nuclear power means less planet-warming CO2 from fossil fuels. But nuclear power comes with other risks.

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration never undertook a formalized national search for a new CTA president despite the mayor saying last month that his office had in fact done so, according to ...

The CTA spent more than $26,000 on three vehicles used by top officials at the public transit agency. In at least some cases, they were used more for commuting than for business.

CTA has paid some workers not to work since the pandemic, costing taxpayers more than $1 million, report says Chicago Transit Authority employees who processed cash and coins from buses and trains ...

The CTA’s violent crime rate was just 1.1 per million CTA passenger trips as recently as 2015, according to the WBEZ analysis. The rate began creeping up in 2016 as violent crime increased in ...

Over $1 million was paid to CTA Vault Operations employees over the last five years for work they didn't do, according to a report just released by the State of Illinois Executive Ethics ...

CTA bus tracker 'ghosts' are frequent issue for riders, agency says it's caused by staffing shortage By Jason Knowles and Ann Pistone and Maggie Green, via Tuesday, October 31, 2023 ...

CTA’s high violent crime rate keeps away what’s needed to ward off crime: passengers Violent crimes per CTA passenger trip are more than triple this year compared to 2015, a WBEZ analysis has ...