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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 ...
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.
MTA agencies now move about 8.6 million customers per day (translating to 2.65 billion rail and bus customers a year) and employ about 74,000 people. The MTA's systems carry over 11 million passengers on an average weekday systemwide, and over 850,000 vehicles on its seven toll bridges and two tunnels per weekday.
A Chicago Transit Authority employee was involved in a shooting that injured a person at the 95th Street Red Line Station on the South Side.
Officials from the Chicago Transit Authority, Metra and the Department of Aviation announced that masks will still be required on trains, buses and inside airports despite Monday’s ruling.
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, the commuter rail system that serves Chicago and its suburbs, could face fresh challenges when federal operating funds run out in 2025. A transit expert said it could require government ...
Metro-North’s biggest union wants the state to ease mask mandates on the commuter rail amid a series of angry confrontations between conductors and passengers upset about having to wear a mask.
Villivalam said the efforts, along with another bill that requires certain employers to offer a pretax transit benefit, are intended to eliminate barriers to transit and boost ridership.
It was one of several recent assaults of subway workers in recent weeks, to the ire of their labor union, leading to service disruptions the following morning as MTA employees stopped work to file ...