Inside the challenges plaguing the CTA

CTA green line — A Green Line train runs on the tracks. The Chicago Transit Authority has faced a number of challenges. Reset dives into these issues.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons

Inside the challenges plaguing the CTA

Unresolved issues with the CTA, some of which started during the pandemic, are coming to a head on the Johnson administration’s watch.

A Green Line train runs on the tracks. The Chicago Transit Authority has faced a number of challenges. Reset dives into these issues.

Zubaer Khan

By Brenda Ruiz Jules Yaeger

The Chicago Transit Authority and its leadership are under scrutiny right now for a bus driver’s death on the job, problems with an employment program for formerly incarcerated people, a controversial appointment to its board and service issues like “ghost buses” and long rail waits. Workers, riders and even Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker have been speaking up.

Reset discusses the issues with reporters and a transportation advocate and planner.

GUESTS: Manny Ramos, investigative reporter, Block Club Chicago

Lauren FitzPatrick, investigative reporter, Chicago Sun-Times

Morgan Madderom, lead policy organizer, Commuters Take Action; transportation planner on the Chicago City Council Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety