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New Bus Schedules in Effect

Systemwide: All Bus Routes

Length:

Sunday, December 16, 2012
to TBD

Impact Level:

Special Note

Full Description:

Beginning Sunday, December 16, the winter bus route schedule goes into effect. Many reroutes are receiving additional service as part of the Crowding Reduction Plan (see the plan page for more information). Other routes continue to have the same frequency and span of service, but arrival times may change up to a few minutes.

For a copy of the new timetable brochure for any route, see Schedules or call 1-888-YOUR-CTA.

The following bus routes will have new schedules in effect:

#1 Bronzeville/Union Station
#2 Hyde Park Express
#3 King Drive
#4 Cottage Grove
#6 Jackson Park Express
#7 Harrison
#8 Halsted
#8A South Halsted
#9 Ashland
#11 Lincoln
#12 Roosevelt
#J14 Jeffery Jump
#15 Jeffery Local
#18 16th/18th
#20 Madison
#22 Clark
#24 Wentworth
#26 South Shore Express
#28 Stony Island
#29 State
#34 South Michigan
#35 31st/35th
#36 Broadway
#37 Sedgwick (new route)
#39 Pershing
#44 Wallace/Racine
#47 47th
#49 Western
#49B North Western
#50 Damen
#51 51st
#52A South Kedzie
#53 Pulaski
#53A South Pulaski
#54 Cicero
#54A North Cicero/Skokie Blvd.
#54B South Cicero
#55 Garfield
#55A 55th/Austin
#55N 55th/Narragansett
#56 Milwaukee
#57 Laramie
#59 59th/61st
#60 Blue Island/26th
#62 Archer
#62H Archer/Harlem
#63 63rd
#63W West 63rd
#65 Grand
#66 Chicago
#67 67th/69th/71st
#68 Northwest Highway
#70 Division
#72 North
#73 Armitage
#74 Fullerton
#75 74th/75th
#76 Diversey
#77 Belmont
#78 Montrose
#79 79th
#80 Irving Park
#81 Lawrence
#81W West Lawrence
#82 Kimball/Homan
#84 Peterson
#85 Central
#85A North Central
#86 Narragansett/Ridgeland
#87 87th
#88 Higgins
#90 Harlem
#91 Austin
#92 Foster
#93 California/Dodge
#94 South California
#95W West 95th
#108 Halsted/95th
#111 111th/King Drive
#112 Vincennes/111th
#115 Pullman/115th (new route)
#120 Ogilvie/Streeterville Express
#121 Union/Streeterville Express
#125 Water Tower Express
#126 Jackson
#132 Goose Island Express
#134 Stockton/LaSalle Express
#135 Clarendon/LaSalle Express
#143 Stockton/Michigan Express
#146 Inner Drive/Michigan Express
#147 Outer Drive Express
#148 Clarendon/Michigan Express
#151 Sheridan
#152 Addison
#154 Wrigley Field Express
#155 Devon
#156 LaSalle
#165 West 65th
#205 Chicago/Golf
#206 Evanston Circulator

The following routes are being discontinued, or have a section being discontinued:

#1 Indiana/Hyde Park (discontinued south of 35th St only)
#11 Lincoln/Sedgwick (discontinued between Western Brown Line and Fullerton stations only)
#17 Westchester
#X28 Stony Island Express
#49A South Western
#56A North Milwaukee
#64 Foster/Canfield
#69 Cumberland/East River
#90N North Harlem
#111 Pullman/111th/115th (discontinued on 111th east of Cottage Grove only)
#122 Illinois Center/Ogilvie Express
#123 Illinois Center/Union Express
#129 West Loop/South Loop
#144 Marine/Michigan Express
#145 Wilson/Michigan Express
#148 Clarendon/Michigan Express (discontinued on Wilson Ave and on Michigan south of Wacker only)
#N201 Central/Sherman (Owl)

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