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CTA at 45 by Krambles & Peterson Chicago Transit Authority REcollections 45 yts
CTA at 45 by Krambles & Peterson Chicago Transit Authority
CTA at 45 Recollections of the first 45 years of the Chicago Transit Authority
George Krambles and Arthur H. Peterson
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
144 Pages
Copyright 1993
Contents
Dedication, Acknowledgment and Foreword 5
1 -The creation and mission of CTA7
2 -Challenges facing the infant9
3 -What came before12
4 -Policy issues 1945-197030
5 -Policy issues 1971-199136
6 -Streetcars and buses39
7 -'12 and subway cars55
8 -Signalling on the rapid transit70
9 -Maintaining the system75
10 - Service control84
11 - Battling Mother Nature90
12 - Employee training and development99
13 - Aurora-Elgin, North Shore and others106
14 - Safety and security114
15 - Trains in expressways and trains to the planes. .118
16 - The Skokie Swift125
17 - Ridership, marketing and fares 129
18 - Partnership in the metropolitan network 134
Appendix
1947 description of the properties139
Maps:
Transit service at CTA inception6
Principal maintenance facilities78
Where employees live102
Where employees report to work103
Improved rapid transit service for
northwest Chicago119
CTA fares, 1947-1993130
Local and through transit markets in one corridor . 135
Bibliography 141
Index 142
Private developers started transit service in Chicago in 1859. Successful at first, they were ultimately driven out of business by rising costs, changing demographics, competition of automobiles, and overregulation. Public ownership was adopted In 1947 when Chicago Transit Authority, using revenue bond money, bought up the lines, funding service solely from user charges. In the 1970s some public money from city, state and federal sources began to support area-wide transit. Still, in 1993 public transit nationwide, particularly its oldest components, again faced a major crisis. Highlights of this process are recalled here. Profusely illustrated, this is a book for the Chicagc history or transit buff.
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