Dorval Carter, left, shakes hands with Mayor Rahm Emanuel after Emanuel introduced Carter as the new president of the Chicago Transit Authority during a news conference at the 74th Street CTA bus ...

with one option on the table to do away with the CTA, Metra, Pace and the Regional Transportation Authority and combine them into one new entity. Carter’s retirement shifts the conversation in ...

Gov. JB Pritzker also wanted a change in leadership, as did key lawmakers whose support is critical if the CTA is to have any chance of getting new money from Springfield to avoid a mass transit ...

How did Northwestern celebrate Lunar New Year? The Daily answers these questions ... I sat down with Meryl Li to get a better look at the CTA’s Red and Purple Line Modernization Project, the ...

Leerhsen was appointed the new CTA head at the agency's board meeting today and will receive an annual salary of $278,703.73, an agency spokesperson confirmed to Crain's. The decision comes days ...

J.B. Pritzker to name a new CTA president and publicly call upon the CTA Board to appoint them,” the resolution read. The leadership within City Council cited poor working conditions ...

The mayor will appoint a new president who must then be approved by the CTA’s seven-member board. Hill said the next president should be more “hands on.” Among the criticisms against Carter ...

the Northern continuation of New York’s Second Avenue Subway with its busy, gleaming stations. Whoever runs the CTA now can’t just hang their hat on the RLE. There’s more work to be done in places ...

are front and center and that we’re going to make sure the new leadership is delivering on what’s best for, well, the entire region,” Pritzker said. The CTA, along with Metra and Pace ...

The agency needs a dynamic new leader, the Editorial Board writes. Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file Share Dorval Carter Jr., has taken his fair share of knocks from all sides as CTA president for ...

The exit of the 67-year-old comes as the CTA faces a funding crisis and amid calls for his resignation from numerous Chicago aldermen. But Carter had resisted that pressure, only just celebrating ...

According to the CTA, during his tenure as president, Carter oversaw $11 billion in new projects that have been completed or begun, including the $5.7 billion Red Line extension and $2.1 billion ...