The NICTD Web site has remained "stale" for the past more than a week. A notice regarding potential delays from catenary replacement the weekend of August...
Pagano may not realize he is playing with trouble. Non handicapped people can move from car to car to find a toilet. Handicapped people cannot due to narrow...
... out of ... equipped car. ... pulling ... I recall reading, that Metra plans to remove toilets only from older non accessible cars. Meaning that for one...
Relayed. Attached please find the final agenda and registration materials for the upcoming DuPage Railroad Safety Council conference to be held Thursday...
RAILChicago http://www.railchicago.com CTA president to hold noon conference updating progress on ... Chicago Tribune The project is aimed at cutting travel...
The article clearly stated that the toilets would be pulled from older cars going through renovation and NOT from any of the handicapped access cars. ... out...
My own recent uses of the toilets on Metra cars leads me to these observations. Water, soap, and towels were non-existant; I didn't need toilet paper and don't...
The time has come, for us early users of CTA's Chicago Card Plus, to replace the card. Because I only use the card occasionally, I had it set up with a $10...
The NICTD "Service Advisory" was most recently updated at 1:47PM today, less than 24 hours after Bill wrote the message below. I look at the update note and...
... The obvious answer is to get yourself or A.N. Other press credentials. This is relatively easy: someone who writes for a newsletter of some sort or a...
Private Metra car 'elegant way to ride' LAKE FOREST | Group has been paying extra for luxury commute since 1929 September 3, 2008 Pioneer Press As the 7:20...
Who remembers smoking on transit? I recall only smoking cars on commuter rail, with the exception of the Highliners. Was there ever smoking allowed on board...
... Smoking used to be tolerated on the South Shore in the vestibules at the ends of the cars. The vestibules are separated from the passenger compartments by...
Metra cannot buy back cars that other carriers are still using. Metra has no out of service equipment. They were in a great hurry to get rid of it. But...
... However given that VRE has received enough of its new Gallery IV cars to be able to sell their Kawasaki bi levels to MARC I wonder if a few of the ex Metra...
There used to be a photography magazine that sold press credentials. I don`t remember the name of this magazine, I haven`t seen it at any newsstand in quite a...
Reminds me of where my dad lives, just NW of Dempster and East Prairie Rd. It's essentially Skokie, but the mailing address uses "Evanston, IL 60203." Adam ...
Let's not forget Galewood. When these statistical boundaries were drawn up in the 1920s, this area was largely undeveloped. This was once farmland and later...
The CMAP/CATS 2010, 2020, 2030 plans all have called for a corridor extention north from Dempster to at least Lake Cook Road. With the larger Residential and...
... The old NORTRAN Suburban-O'Hare Plan from the mid '80's would have built passenger rail in the C&NW Weber and Skokie subdivisions, portions of which were...
... North of Dempster and east of Crawford is delivered by the Evanston post office. Kids in this area attend Evanston elementary schools and Evanston Twp HS. ...
Developers and businesses gambled on highways; now let the employees use Metra and Pace feeder buses and see where development goes. Extending the Yellow Line...
The next monthly meeting of CTA - Citizens Taking Action, for transit dependent riders, will be on Monday, September 8th, 7-9:00 PM, 77 W. Washington, 4th...
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