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7,200 mi (11,587.28 km) The Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) is the financial and oversight body for the three transit agencies in northeastern Illinois; the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), Metra, and Pace, which are called Service Boards in the RTA Act. [1] RTA serves Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will counties.
The Metra Police Department was created to protect the eleven rail lines and 242 stations in metropolitan Chicago's commuter rail system, Metra. The primary function of the Metra Police Department is to protect Metra passengers, employees, assets (trains and stations), enforce criminal laws, traffic laws and ordinances that directly or indirectly relate to the Metra system.
The Chicago Transit Authority ( CTA) is the operator of mass transit in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and some of its suburbs, including the trains of the Chicago "L" and CTA bus service. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 279,146,200, or about 908,400 per weekday as of the fourth quarter of 2023. The CTA is an Illinois independent ...
Metra ( reporting mark METX) is the primary commuter rail system [a] in the Chicago metropolitan area serving the city of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs via the Union Pacific Railroad, BNSF Railway, and other railroads. The system operates 243 stations on 11 rail lines. [4] It is the fourth busiest commuter rail system in the United States ...
CHICAGO, IL — A Chicago Transit Authority employee was involved in a shooting early Saturday at the 95th Street and Dan Ryan Red Line Station on the South Side, according to CTA officials....
The various agencies providing bus service in the Chicago suburbs were merged under the Suburban Bus Division, which rebranded as Pace in 1984. In 2022, Pace had 18.041 million riders. Pace is headquartered in Arlington Heights, Illinois and is governed by a 13-member Board of Directors, 12 of which are current and former suburban mayors.
The Richard B. Ogilvie Transportation Center ( / ˈoʊɡəlviː / ), on the site of the former Chicago and North Western Terminal, is a commuter rail terminal in downtown Chicago, Illinois. For the last century, this site has served as the primary terminal for the Chicago and North Western Railway and its successors Union Pacific and Metra.
The Mid-City Transitway is a concept for the use of the right-of-way formerly proposed for the Crosstown Expressway in Chicago, Illinois.The uses being studied include a bus-only rapid-transit road (similar to a two-lane road running from McCormick Place north to the Loop), a truck-only bypass around the city center, or a rail rapid transit system (the favored and most feasible of the three ...
47th station (CTA Red Line) / 41.810318; -87.63094. I-90 / I-94 (Dan Ryan Expy.) 47th is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority 's 'L' system, serving the Red Line. The station is located in the median of the Dan Ryan Expressway in the Fuller Park neighborhood. Access to the station is available from a staircase at the middle of the north ...
A train on the Metropolitan main line passes over the Chicago river. The Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad (known as the Met or Polly "L" [2]) was the third elevated rapid transit line to be built in Chicago, Illinois. It was the first of Chicago’s elevated lines to be electrically powered. The main line ran from downtown Chicago to ...