Metra is considering renaming its lines in the Chicago area. The rail agency has released a survey to gauge public feedback ...

Commuters wait to board an inbound Union Pacific Northwest Metra train at the Arlington Heights station on Sept. 15, 2022. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune) Metra is instead proposing three options.

(Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune) He also tied Metra’s refusal to release the findings to conversations in Springfield about what the future of transit should look like, as the Chicago area’s ...

Metra has launched a survey to get feedback on potentially renaming lines to make the system “easier to understand for new ...

Trains on the Metra BNSF line were halted just in time for the afternoon rush Monday, after a train hit and killed a pedestrian in Downers Grove, Illinois. Downers Grove police said at 4:36 p.m., they ...

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She rides Metra from Palatine two or three times a month for business meetings in Chicago. Angelette Smith, 46, said she once missed a UP-Northwest train because she misunderstood a Metra timetable.

A Metra train arrives at the LaSalle Street Metra Station. Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file Share Metra deserves credit for thinking about renaming each of its 14 commuter rail lines in a bid to help ...