The last Purple Line rail track was installed Thursday afternoon at the light rail line’s future 16th Street-Woodside station ...

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Washington, D.C.’s Metro Board of Directors has voted to approve a plan to modernize the Metrorail Red Line fully and convert all its trains to driverless, automatic systems. “Metro has led the ...

More than six decades after the idea to extend the Chicago Transit Authority's busy Red Line first surfaced, the extension took concrete steps toward reality on Friday. The first shovel-fulls of earth ...

WASHINGTON - The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s board is expected to vote Thursday on a $913 million budget plan that includes a proposal to fully automate Metro’s Red Line, the ...

After 40 years of taking the Purple Line Express to work, 7th Ward resident Chris Hain said he has “seen everything on the Purple Line.” He observed as the Chicago Transit Authority added electric ...

The order is a major victory for the residents of Chicago’s Far South Side, said Nora Leerhsen, CTA acting president, in a statement. “CTA promised the community that it would fight for the RLE, and ...

The CTA sued the Department of Transportation over withholding billions of dollars for the Red Line extension, saying development would come to a halt if that funding continued to be frozen. Earlier ...

The CTA is suing both the FTA and the USDOT to release funds for the Red Line Extension and Red and Purple Line moderization projects. Updated 03/26/26 The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) was granted ...

CHICAGO — Police say two people are recovering in the hospital on Wednesday morning after they were stabbed during an altercation on a CTA Red Line train overnight. According to police, the incident ...

A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration improperly withheld about $2 billion from the Chicago Transit Authority for its Red Line extension and modernization projects. Donald Trump's ...