Toting suitcases and travel knickknacks, several Northwestern students disembarked a rapid bus traveling from O’Hare International Airport Tuesday at the Davis Street Chicago Transit Authority station in downtown Evanston. Weinberg freshman Anirudh Rao said he took advantage of the new route, Pace Suburban Buses’ Pulse Dempster Line, for a trip that now takes less than.
A one-way ticket on Metra’s double-decker commuter trains from downtown Evanston to Chicago costs $5.50 –– more than double the cost for riding the Chicago Transit Authority “L” train the same distance. Starting Feb. 1, the fare will drop to $3.75 — but Metra still expects revenue to remain stable as it simplifies its fare.
On Sundays, Pace buses on Dempster Street arrive at each stop every 15 minutes –– up from every 30 minutes. While waiting at the Davis bus station, Evanston resident Richard Kuntz said he couldn’t be happier about the schedule change. “It’s a huge improvement,” he said. “Because of the schedule, you don’t have to wait.
The stand-off between railroad companies and a dozen unions representing workers from conductors to locomotive engineers is for the second time heading toward a possible strike.
WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), and U.S. Representatives Marie Newman (D-IL-3) and Mike Quigle