May 12, 2009 – One morning in November 2004, a CTA bus stopped at Catalpa and Broadway in Uptown for a woman and her daughter, who was using a motorized wheelchair because she had torn a ligament in her foot. As the daughter wheeled up to the bus lift, she got stuck and couldn’t move...
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Complaints Against CTA Keep Climbing
Injury and Equipment Breakdowns Continue to Trouble Some Disabled CTA Riders
May 12, 2009 – On a cold November day in 2007, Georgia Willis sat on her scooter as a CTA bus lift lowered her to the ground. Before she knew it, the scooter had tipped off the lift and she hit her face on the bike rack and was underneath the 40-foot, 27,000-pound bus....
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Disabled Riders Experience Years of Inconsistency in CTA Service
May 12, 2009 – Nearly 20 years after the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act took effect and nine years after being sued in federal court, the CTA is still not readily accessible to hundreds of thousands of disabled Chicagoans. Since the 1990 passage of the ADA, fixed-route public transit systems like the CTA have...
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Advisory Group Works to Improve Access for Disabled CTA Riders
May 12, 2009 – Kevin Irvine was frustrated. The chairman of the CTA’s ADA Advisory Committee kept asking questions about performance reports, Web site updates and bus lift failures. But each time, he couldn’t get an answer from the Chicago Transit Authority’s long-time ADA compliance officer, Christine Montgomery. To each of his questions, she...
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Chicago South Side wants the Gold
Story by: Lisa Wardle April 27, 2009 – With Olympics buzz going around Hyde Park, an old proposal to improve public transportation involving a new South Side CTA route that would run on existing Metra tracks has resurfaced. And it looks more likely to happen than ever before, according to backers of the plan...
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The Parking Meter Deal Called into Question
by Mick Dumke Citing the Reader’s recent cover story on the parking meter lease deal, alderman Joe Moore and four of his City Council colleagues are planning to introduce a resolution this week calling for additional hearings into how the agreement was struck. via Chicago Reader Blogs: Clout City. Related articles by Zemanta Aldermen...
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South Austin Residents Fix Pothole Problems
April 10, 2009 - Westside Residents Fill Neighborhood Potholes from Jennifer T. Lacey on Vimeo
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Closed CTA station leaves residents anxious
Story by Mandy Treccia March 31, 2009 – When the CTA started remodeling work last March on the Brown Line Paulina station, Roscoe Village resident Nicole Cieslak did not think twice about it. “I take the Brown Line on a daily basis because I work at the Merchandise Mart,” said Ciselak, 27. “I...
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Not all Chicagoans Support the Olympic Bid for 2016
by Tom Tresser. Tom is an educator, organizer and consultant in Chicago’s creative community. “No Games Chicago” Rallies to Shut Down 2016 Olympic Bid The International Olympic Committee will be in town from April 2nd to April 8th to evaluate Chicago’s potential as a Host City for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Join with “No...
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The URL the Chicagotribune.com forgot – metradelays
In their story about the Google employee who set up metra delay alerts on twitter, the chicagotribune.com only linked to its metra alerts. Here is the twitter address to follow for all metra delay alerts: http://twitter.com/metradelays
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