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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: Consumers, Credit and Debt, CTA Ventra Card, Chicago Transit Authority, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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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: Chicago Elections, Polls, Chicago City Hall, Local Government, Chicago Transit Authority
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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, Hyde Park, Chicago Transit Authority, Twitter, Inc., Apple iPhone
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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...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Chicago Transit Authority, Employees
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Transit agencies look to keep South Side moving during CTA work
The time for campaigning is about to end. Now the hard work — delivering on promises made to 80,000 daily CTA Red Line customers who will lose a vital transportation lifeline for five months — is set to begin Sunday. Public outreach for...
Tags: Chatham, Career and Workplace, Politics, Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago Police Department
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CTA cleans up advertising policy
Sex and violence sells, but no longer on the CTA. The CTA board voted Wednesday to tighten the agency's advertising policy, allowing only commercial, promotional and governmental ads, as well as public service announcements from nonprofit groups on...
Tags: Television Industry, Abortion, Chicago Transit Authority, Abortion Issue, Sex Crimes
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CTA adjusts ad policy, also says decrowding efforts working
Tribune reporterSex and violence sells, but no longer on the CTA. The CTA board voted Wednesday to tighten the agency’s advertising policy, allowing only commercial, promotional and governmental ads, as well as public service announcements from non-profit groups...Tags: Television Industry, Abortion, Chicago Transit Authority
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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 Transit Authority, Irving Park, Rahm Emanuel, Metra, Chicago Mayor
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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,...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Republican Party, Marriage, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Transit Authority
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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: Consumers, Personal Income, CTA Ventra Card, Chicago Transit Authority, Rahm Emanuel
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CTA banking on extra Ventra cash
Tribune reporterThe CTA will receive a cash infusion of at least a half-million dollars a year that won't come from the farebox, and some of it will be paid by customers who are hit by fees from the new Ventra prepaid debit card. The transit agency's Ventra fare system...Tags: Career and Workplace, Personal Income, Chicago Transit Authority, Collective Contract, Marketing
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Chicago man starts petition drive against new Ventra fare-payment card
Springlike weather is arriving late this year, but it's shaping up to be a long, hot summer for the Chicago Transit Authority. CTA President Forrest Claypool and his team will manage two difficult projects that are already unpopular with many riders...
Tags: Personal Income, Chicago Transit Authority, Rahm Emanuel, Richard M. Daley, Chicago Tribune
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