Construction is set to begin this week on new dedicated bus-only lanes along one of Chicago's most popular travel routes, transportation officials announced on Tuesday.
Construction is set to begin this week on new dedicated bus-only lanes along one of Chicago 's most popular travel routes, transportation officials announced on Tuesday.The new bus-only lanes on the #66 Chicago Avenue route aim to improve bus reliability and reduce travel time for riders on one of the city's busiest corridors, according to a statement from the Chicago Transit Authority .
"The 66 Chicago Avenue route is one of our most frequent and most heavily utilized, providing roughly 17,000 rides on an average weekday, and our ability to efficiently move riders along that corridor is critical to connecting communities on the east and west sides of the city," CTA President Dorval R. Carter, Jr. said in the statement. "This latest addition builds on years of improvements made to this route, cumulatively speeding up average travel times by several minutes.
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