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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Maybe CTA President Richard Rodriguez should spend less time driving to work and more time attending to the system that 1.5 million riders a day depend on to get around Chicago.
CHICAGO CARLESS (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
( Photo: The CTA wants to know what you're thinking...that is, if you can figure out what they're asking.) This week, the Chicago Transit Authority is surveying riders on the front page of its website . As you might expect (especially in the still-turbulent wake of Ron Huberman's exit ), the agency is doing a rotten job of it. Especially for a transit provider with a historically bad relationship...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
PITTSBURGH /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Rail Products business unit of Pittsburgh, PA based L.B. Foster Company has received a $6.5 million contract for transit rail and associated rail products for use on Chicago Transit Authority's (CTA) Dearborn Subway Project. L.B. Foster has begun delivery of 80ft rail sections, direct fixation (DFF) fasteners, insulated joints and contact rail insulators for...
The Moviezzz Blog (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
If you only know Jeff Garlin from CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, you are missing out. You might have missed his wonderful film I WANT SOMEONE TO EAT CHEESE WITH, that he wrote, directed, and starred in. He also directed a very funny John Waters stand up concert film, THIS FILTHY WORLD. Now, with JEFF GARLIN: YOUNG AND HANDSOME, he returns to how it all began for him, stand up. Filmed in 2008 in Chicago, Garlin...
Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
No longer working for the Chicago Transit Authority, this preserved city streetcar built in 1908 now hauls visiting patrons at the Illinois Railway Museum. It was in actual working transit service in the city of Chicago Illinois from 1908 to 1954. It was kept on the CTA Roster for fantrips, charters and special occasions...until the official end of Chicago streetcar operations on June 21st, 1958.
WNEW: Where Rock Lives (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
Rock music has a robust history, so every Wednesday, J.A. Bartlett of the Hits Just Keep On Comin' talks about the biggest and most intriguing moments from years past... This week in 2005, the Live 8 concerts were held around...
The Daily Background (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
So, last Sunday (the 28th), Tiffany and I went to watch the (gay) Pride Parade here in Chicago. It was our first year going and one thing that I found pleasantly surprising was how many stereotypes were pretty much blown to pieces by the marchers. Here are some pictures I took challenging conventional wisdom on [...]
Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | 30/06/2009
I photographed this digital live sound video one hot summer afternoon, in August of 2008. We are on location at the southwest corner of South Archer and Normal Avenues, in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhoodon the southside of Chicago. A Chicago Transit Authority 1990's era Nova transit bus assigned to the CTA Route # 62 Archer /Harlem Avenue bus line, makes a rush hour stop at the northeast corner of...
Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | 30/06/2009
I photographed this silent digital video with My old digital camera, in the early Spring of 2007. A westbound Chicago Transit Authority Route # 77 Belmont Avenue bus, is viewed heading westbound at the intersection of West Belmont and North Long Avenues on Chicago's northside. The bus is a 1990's era Flxible transit bus.
Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | 30/06/2009
I took this photo on Chicago's northside, back in January of 2006. With the Chicago Transit Authority's brown line station over West Montrose Avenue in the background, a CTA 1990's era Flxible transit bus heads westbound.
University of Chicago News Office (Free subscription) | 30/06/2009
Visitors to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport this summer may find themselves taking an unplanned "journey" into the cosmos. "From Earth to the Universe," an exhibit of 56 astronomical images, is on display through the end of the year at O'Hare. Scientists at ...
Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | 27/06/2009
I took this photo one hot summer morning, in August of 2006. I took this photo near the Oak Park Avenue overpass bridge, at the Illinois U.S Route # 290 Congress Expressway. An eastbound Chicago Transit Authority blue line rapid transit train, makes time heading for downtown Chicago Illinois. The train is enroute to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport from West suburban Forest Park Illinois.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 25/06/2009
The Chicago Transit Authority will have to make do with $35 million less this year after the Regional Transportation Authority board cut the operating budgets of Chicago-area transit agencies by $67 million Thursday. The severe shortfall is the result of declining tax revenues. Metra will have to reduce $19 million in spending and Pace loses $7 million. Pace's paratransit program for disabled riders...
Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space (Free subscription) | 25/06/2009
They too are not inviolate. Tax receipts can go down. Typically, real estate transfer taxes and sales taxes are used to fund transit systems. The financial problems experienced by the Chicago Transit Authority " CTA president says specifics on cuts unknown " from the Chicago Tribune ), the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (" The tax that fails the T " from the Boston Globe...
Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | 25/06/2009
I took this photo one evening in April of 2007. We are looking south at the intersection of South Kedzie Avenue and West 111th Street in Chicago's Mount Greenwood neighborhood near the Chicago city limits. A northbound Chicago Transit Authority Route # 52A South Kedzie Avenue bus, is approaching the bus stop at West 111th Street. The transit bus seen here, is a 1990's era Nova low floor model.
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