On recent weekday trips, the bus was packed with adults and backpack-wearing teens, while commuters toting shopping bags and strollers waited to board.Ĭhris Franklin, 41, regularly takes the bus south to pick up his daughter from high school. The Cottage Grove bus runs through Pullman and along commercial corridors, past Chicago State University, the UChicago Medicine and Insight Hospital and Medical Center, to the Chicago River downtown. But for many passengers, getting to work, school and appointments on time remains a concern. On the #4 Cottage Grove route, the CTA recently reinstated an express bus during morning and evening rush periods in an effort to speed buses along the corridor. The Chicago Department of Transportation received a federal grant to expand transit signal priority to more bus routes in the coming years, which extends a green light to allow an approaching bus to pass through the intersection. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)įifty bus boarding islands, which allow buses to stop and board passengers without pulling out of a lane of traffic, are scheduled to be installed in 20. Keisha Moore waits along with others for the notoriously slow and unreliable CTA #4 Cottage Grove bus, in Chicago, on Oct.

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