The CTA on the Web

Transit Chicago
www.transitchicago.com
The CTA’s website is packed with features, from info on current projects to the very necessary Trip Planner.

ChicagoBus.org
www.chicagobus.org
This factoid-filled site does a bumper-to-bumper breakdown of the CTA’s fleet, from profiling the various bus models to cataloging sound clips of bus PA announcements.

Chicago-L.org
www.chicago-l.org
CTA obsessionado Graham Garfield operates this site, which focuses on the history of the city’s rapid-transit system, from its inception as a 3.6-mile elevated rail line in 1892 to station construction up to 2010.

Chicago Transit Status
transit.elevatedconsulting.com
This site tracks all the latest news on all the train lines so you never have to scan for those rarely updated service changes signs.

CTA Tattler
www.ctatattler.com
Yes, it still offers up-to-date CTA articles and press; yup, people still submit photos that are posted daily; and uh-huh, you can still share your CTA poems or horror stories. And in 2005, the site partnered with the CTA to produce a wireless system that texts subscribers about major delays as they happen.

Neighbors Project
neighborsproject.org/projects/cta/
This is the easiest letter of complaint you’ll ever write. Just punch in your zip code, and an auto-filled letter with a complaint form (you can customize as you wish) immediately gets e-mailed to Mayor Daley, your alderman, your state rep and your state senator.