Cta Travel Times Improve Due To Slow Zone Elimination

摘要

Chicago Transit Authority President Ron Huberman said travel time across the rail system has improved as a result of an aggressive plan to eliminate slow zones. Slow zones now exist on only 6.8 percent of the rail system, down from 22.3 percent in October 2007.rnSince that time, a total of 183,000 feet of slow zones have been removed from a high of 263,526 feet. The CTA rail system contains 224.1 miles of track.rnOn the O'Hare branch of the Blue Line, slow zones existed on 62 percent of the track. CTA renewed a total of 111,845 track feet and eliminated 95,414 feet of slow zones, resulting in a reduction of slow zones to three percent of the branch.