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CTA unveils artwork destined for 7 Red Line stations
Commuters on the Red Line's north branch will notice a new splash of color at seven stations by the end of the year. The CTA on Tuesday revealed renderings of the artwork during an event at the Granville station. The agency chose seven artists to...Tags: Arts and Culture, Chicago Transit Authority, Artists, Fine Artists
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CTA unveils artwork for Red Line north stations
Tribune reporterCommuters on the Red Line's north branch will notice a new splash of color at seven stations by the end of the year. The CTA on Tuesday revealed renderings of the artwork during an event at the Granville station. The agency chose seven artists to...Tags: Arts and Culture, Chicago Transit Authority, Artists, Fine Artists
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Groups call on CTA to require new rail car makers to detail future local jobs
Tribune reporterChicago labor and community groups on Monday called on the Chicago Transit Authority to require bidders on future rail car manufacturing contracts to submit detailed plans for creating local jobs. In a letter to CTA president Forrest Claypool, leaders...Tags: Chicago Mayor, Chicago Transit Authority, Contracts, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Employment Opportunities
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Union accuses CTA of violating labor contract
Tribune reporterLabor peace has been short-lived at the CTA in the wake of an historic contract negotiated late last year that reformed decades-old work rules to increase efficiency and save the transit agency millions of dollars annually. On Monday, several hundred...Tags: Unions, Chicago Mayor, Labor Legislation, Chicago Transit Authority, Employees
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CTA, rail union at odds over seniority rules
Labor peace has been short-lived at the CTA in the wake of a historic contract negotiated late last year that changed decades-old work rules to increase efficiency and save the transit agency millions of dollars annually. On Monday, several hundred CTA...Tags: Unions, Chicago Mayor, Chicago Transit Authority, Employees, Career and Workplace
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Changes follow criticism of CTA's Ventra card plan
Tribune reporterThe CTA will waive a $5 fee for customers who obtain the new Ventra transit card in 2013 and it also will eliminate or reduce some of the controversial service charges related to the optional Ventra debit MasterCard account, officials said Friday. The...Tags: Credit and Debt, Chicago Transit Authority, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Ventra Transit Card, First Data Corporation
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Red Line rehab poses political challenge for Emanuel
Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday lauded Chicago Transit Authority workers for their "flawless" rollout of a five-month Red Line reconstruction that has shuttle buses replacing train service. So far, they're breathing a sigh of relief at City Hall. The...
Tags: Commuting, Howard Brookins, Elections, Richard M. Daley, Danny K. Davis
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Red Line rides out first weekday of construction project
Commuting on the South Side changed fundamentally Monday. Yet at the same time, nothing changed. CTA Red Line trains were absent from the median of the Dan Ryan Expressway for the first weekday since the south branch opened almost 44 years ago, except...
Tags: Commuting, Twitter, Inc., Metra, Media Industry, Chicago Transit Authority
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CTA braces for 1st workday of Red Line closure on South Side
Marie Drake was already displeased Sunday morning when she boarded a free shuttle bus near the 63rd Street Red Line station. The Chicago Transit Authority, she said, hadn't done enough to explain the five-month shutdown of the Red Line's Dan Ryan branch...
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Kass: Republican Bruce Rauner takes no position on gay marriage
Bruce Rauner, the multimillionaire Republican businessman who wants to become governor of Illinois, sat down with me for an interview Thursday and dodged questions about same-sex marriage. It took about four tries to pin him down on where he stands, and...
Tags: Regional Authority, Michael Madigan, Edward G. Rendell, Bruce Rauner, Same-Sex Marriage
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CTA details proposed Ashland express bus service
RedEyeAshland Avenue will get a dedicated center bus lane in each direction for express bus service between 95th Street and Irving Park Road, the CTA and Mayor Rahm Emanuel will announce today. This is the first step in bringing bus rapid transit, service...Tags: Chicago Mayor, Irving Park, Metra, Chicago Transit Authority, Rahm Emanuel
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CTA boss wavers on Ventra at hearing
Tribune reporterCTA President Forrest Claypool on Monday appeared to alternate between playing the roles of an impartial party as well as a pitchman for the new Ventra transit card's controversial prepaid debit-account program. Claypool told state officials at a public...Tags: Chicago Mayor, Deborah Mell, Metra, Chicago Transit Authority, Ventra Transit Card
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