Throughout 2025, 20 bus routes will have service added to ensure 10-minute or better scheduled service between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekends.
Routes that are part of the Frequent Network will see the highest levels of scheduled service since 2010 when the CTA was forced to implement service reductions due to funding constraints. With the initial set of eight routes going live this Spring, 35% of the population will be within half-mile of a Frequent Route. Once the Frequent Network is fully implemented, by the end of 2025, 70% of the CTA service area will be within a half-mile of a frequent bus route.
The Frequent Network builds on CTA’s Bus Vision Framing Report, which analyzed CTA bus service and identified much needed service improvements on weekends, evenings and midday to ensure CTA’s buses better serve riders, especially low-income and minority riders. The next phase of the Bus Vision Project will provide people in the service area an opportunity to share their input on how CTA bus service can better serve their communities and the attributes of CTA bus service that are most important to them, such as frequency, hours of operation, routing and access to service, among other features.
You can look forward to:
20
frequent bus routes in 2025
227k
daily rides taken across all 20 routes
2.3M
people within 1/2 mi. of a frequent route
Frequent routes as of Summer 2025
These routes are now part of our Frequent Network, added either in Spring or Summer 2025.
- #4 Cottage Grove (new this summer!)
More than 20% more service Sundays. Overnight "Owl" service extended south from 63rd to 95th/Dan Ryan Red Line station.
- #J14 Jeffery Jump
20% more service on weekdays, more than 35% more service on weekends; hours of service increased weekdays and Sundays
- #20 Madison (new this summer!)
10% more service weekdays and Saturdays, 25% more service Sundays.
- #34 South Michigan
Weekday service will run every 6-10 minutes instead of every 8-16 minutes.
- #47 47th
Service doubled between Kedzie and Midway stations on the Orange Line
- #49 Western (new this summer!)
More than 10% more service weekdays and Saturdays, 25% more service Sundays.
- #54 Cicero
30% more service on Sundays
- #60 Blue Island/26th
More than 45% more service on weekends
- #63 63rd
More than 40% more service between Midway station on the Orange Line and Kedzie/63rd
- #66 Chicago (new this summer!)
More than 10% more service weekdays. Overnight "Owl" service extended west from Pulaski to Austin.
- #79 79th
More than 50% more service between Western Ave and Ford City on weekdays, more than 20% more service between Western Ave and Ford City on Saturdays
- #95 95th
20% more service weekdays, more than 30% more service weekends
Frequent routes starting later this year
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