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Article: Weekend Yellow Line service experiment
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- Skokie Review (IL)
- Article date:
- February 13, 2008
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The Chicago Transit Board Wednesday approved adding weekend service to CTA Yellow Line routes, which connects Chicago and Skokie.
For a six-month period starting March 30, Yellow Line trains will operate on Saturdays and Sundays from 6:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., at 15-minute intervals, according to a release from the CTA. Funding for the additional service is from a Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Program grant.
"The Yellow Line connects to other CTA rail routes and with several CTA and Pace bus routes which helps to reduce traffic congestion in the area," CTA President Ron Huberman said. "Adding weekend service will make it more convenient to take public transit to shop and to work in the ...