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People ride a Metra train. Photo by Clark Maxwell.
Metra is looking for board approval to hire Xentrans to help them find the best solution and vendor who would test wi-fi service on one route. The contract is worth $200,000.
Xentrans has previously done work with the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), an agency [...]
It’s rare to see CTA and Metra signs in the same place. The LaSalle Intermodal Transfer Center at LaSalle Street and Congress Parkway is a great step in making transit work “regionally”: it connects Rock Island District trains and multiple bus routes. It provides weak signage directing riders to the Jackson Blue Line station one [...]
Transit users whose employers provide pre-tax benefit programs stand to pay less taxes in 2012 and 2013. Photo by Erin Nekervis.
January 1st always comes with new laws. This January 1st was a little different than most in that the United States was closing in on the “fiscal cliff”. The American Taxpayer Relief Act of [...]
Metra’s Rogers Park train station. Photo by Jeff Zoline.
2012 Chicago fatality stats*:
Pedestrian: 28 (13 have been hit-and-run crashes)
Pedalcyclist: 7 (1 is a hit-and-run crash)
Transit: 10
Skateboard: 1 (1 is a hit-and-run crash)
A 46-year-old unnamed man from Beach Park jumped in front of a UP-North Metra train at the Rogers [...]
A Metra train at the Irving Park station in 2010. Photo by Eric Pancer.
2012 Chicago fatality stats*:
Pedestrian: 27 (12 have been hit-and-run crashes)
Pedalcyclist: 6 (1 is a hit-and-run crash)
Transit: 9
Skateboard: 1 (1 is a hit-and-run crash)
Richard Garza, 56, of Wilmette, Illinois, was hit by a Metra [...]
A outbound Metra commuter rail train leaving the College Ave station in Wheaton, IL on a misty cold election night in November. Photo by Duane Rapp.
“The 10-ride is meant as a convenience media, offered as a convenience to riders to save them from having to buy 10 one-ways,” said Metra spokesman Michael Gillis. (The [...]
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