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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: Chicago Transit Authority, Computing and Information Technology Industry, First Data Corporation, Credit and Debt, Consumers
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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: Local Government, Chicago Mayor, Chicago Elections, Rahm Emanuel, Politics
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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: Apple iPhone, Media Industry, Chicago Transit Authority, Criminals, Twitter, Inc.
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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: Chicago Transit Authority, Employees, Career and Workplace
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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: Chicago Police Department, Chicago Transit Authority, Labor Legislation, Politics, Chatham
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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: Abortion Issue, Chicago Transit Authority, Sex Crimes, Television Industry, Abortion
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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: Chicago Transit Authority, Television Industry, Abortion
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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: Banking, Chicago Mayor, Springfield, Rahm Emanuel, Parties and Movements
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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: Personal Income, Chicago Mayor, Chicago Transit Authority, Rahm Emanuel, First Data Corporation
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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: Personal Income, Chicago Transit Authority, Wage Contract Issues, U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, First Data Corporation
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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, Phil Collins, Chicago Mayor, Chicago Transit Authority, Rahm Emanuel
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CTA's Ventra fare system a tool of mass confusion
The Chicago Transit Authority soon will launch a new fare-payment system that affects almost every CTA and Pace rider, although transit officials have yet to fully explain how it will work. Poor communications with customers is something the CTA has...
Tags: Personal Data Collection, Interior Policy, Media Industry, Chicago Transit Authority, Twitter, Inc.
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