In February, slow zones covered some 30% of the rail system, up from 13% five years earlier. It’s one more hurdle for the CTA to overcome.

Call it deja Blue. In what’s being billed as the largest Blue Line investment in 30 years, CTA officials announced last week the agency will embark on a four-year, $492 million project to rid ...

CTA train map showing Red, Blue, Green, Brown, Pink, Orange lines. WLS CHICAGO (WLS) -- The CTA says trains are now moving faster than they have in the past 18 years because of fewer "slow zones." ...

Slow zones first appeared along a stretch of Blue Line tracks in 2011. But they’ve more than doubled between 2018 and 2019—then they grew even more during the pandemic.

CTA Blue Line slow zones mostly eliminated. wls. By ABC7. Monday, December 8, 2008. CTA officials predict that will allow travelers to go from the Loop to O'Hare in under 45 minutes.

Slow zones make up nearly three-quarters of the CTA Blue Line run to Forest Park. Credit: Shira Friedman-Parks When Raunel Urquiza takes the Blue Line into the Loop, the train often feels empty.

Blue Line trains in both directions will operate on the same track between Harlem and Cumberland while crews make track improvements to eliminate slow zones, according to the CTA’s Web site.

Even with the improvements, about 40 of the agency's 223 miles of track will remain designated slow zones, according to a map on the CTA's Web site. The CTA instituted the slow zones last summer ...

Parts of the CTA Blue Line are set to temporarily close, again, as construction to remove slow zones continues — but the end of the work is in sight. From 10 p.m. Friday to 4 a.m. Monday, the ...

A significant construction project will begin this weekend on the CTA Blue Line’s Forest Park branch, ... removing 15,000 feet of so-called “slow zones,” according to CTA officials.

There could soon be fewer of the notorious slow zones on the Forest Park branch of the CTA Blue Line, as work is planned to begin rebuilding the first piece of the line. The CTA has approved a ...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CTA President Forrest Claypool today announced a 4-year renovation plan for the CTA Blue Line’s O’Hare branch.Unlike the Red Line renovation, the Blue Line projec… ...