CTA

Six Downtown CTA Bus Routes Temporarily Rerouted Friday for Filming

March 17, 2011

From 6 p.m. Friday, March 18 until approximately 12:30 a.m. Saturday, March 19, Madison Street between Michigan and Wabash will be closed to all vehicular traffic due to filming activity. Due to the street closure, the following reroutes will be in effect on six CTA bus routes. Customers are advised to allow extra travel time.

Northbound #14 Jeffery Express buses will travel over the regular route to Michigan/Adams then will operate via Adams, State to Madison and resume the regular route. Southbound #14 buses are not affected and will travel over the regular route.
 
Eastbound #20 Madison buses will operate over the regular route to Washington/State then will travel via State to Madison before beginning the westbound trip. Westbound #20 buses will leave from Madison between State/Dearborn and travel over the regular route.
 
Westbound #20 Madison buses operating to Randolph/Columbus only will travel over the regular route to Randolph past Michigan to State then will operate south on State to Madison and then resume the regular route. 
 
Southbound #56 Milwaukee buses will travel over the regular route to Monroe/State then will operate via State to Madison before beginning the northbound trip. Northbound #56 buses are not affected and will operate west on Madison over the regular route.
 
Westbound #60 Blue Island/26th and #157 Streeterville buses will travel over their regular routes to Randolph past Michigan to State then will operate south on State to Madison and then resume their regular routes. Eastbound #60 and #157 buses are not affected and will travel along their regular routes.
 
Westbound #124 Navy Pier buses will operate over the regular route to Michigan/Randolph then will travel via Randolph, State to Madison and then resume the regular route. Eastbound #124 buses are not affected and will travel along the regular route.
 
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