Archive for 'Getting Around' Category
A Penny For Your Safety
31 December 2007The CTA is once again providing rides for New Year’s Eve revelers for only a penny. The cheap rate starts at 8pm tonight and goes until 6am tomorrow morning. Several bus and rail lines will also offer later service.
Bus Service
#4 Cottage Grove buses will operate all night between Washington/State and 95th/Cottage Grove. Buses will operate […]
TLT’s Cab Crusade
18 December 2007Cab Ride #1: It’s cold. It’s snowing. I have no cash on me, but my bank’s ATM is half a mile away. I’m running late, so I do what any city gal would do. I hail a cab and ask if he takes credit cards.
“No.” And he drives off.
Another one pulls up and I […]
The Chocolate Water Taxi
10 December 2007It may be freezing, but the river isn’t frozen yet, and until December 23, you can take the Chicago Water Taxi between Madison Street and Michigan Avenue.
At $2 for a one-way ticket, the service is already inexpensive. Thanks to Fannie May, the ferry’s free on the weekends and there are free chocolate samples. Passengers will […]
Winter Parking Bans
30 November 2007It’s that time of year again, when the already scarce parking gets even scarcer. Check out TLT’s guide to winter parking bans to make sure you don’t get towed.
CTA Update
4 November 2007Well, we get another two month reprieve from the threatened service reductions and fare hikes. It’s beginning to feel like they’re crying wolf, so I never really doubted it would come through. All this up and down is giving me a headache, and I don’t even use the CTA that often. I can imagine how […]
