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The various agencies providing bus service in the Chicago suburbs were merged under the Suburban Bus Division, which rebranded as Pace in 1984. In 2022, Pace had 18.041 million riders. [4] Pace is headquartered in Arlington Heights, Illinois, and is governed by a 13-member Board of Directors, 12 of which are current and former suburban mayors.
Pulse is an express bus service and a purported bus rapid transit [a] system operated by Pace, a bus and paratransit agency in the Chicago metropolitan area.Pulse lines incorporate some aspects of a bus rapid transit line like transit signal priority, but not others, including no bus lanes.
Evanston Davis Street station: Howard (Red Purple Yellow) Weekday rush North Park Discontinued June 22, 2003. Combined with Route 93 North California. 205 Chicago/Golf: Howard (Red Purple Yellow) Skokie Courthouse: Weekdays Forest Glen/North Park Discontinued September 4, 2018. Replaced By Pace 208 & 213. BL Blue Line Local Shuttle Illinois ...
Evanston [a] is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, situated on the North Shore along Lake Michigan. A suburb of Chicago, Evanston is 12 miles (19 km) north of downtown Chicago, bordered by Chicago to the south, Skokie to the west, Wilmette to the north, and Lake Michigan to the east. Evanston had a population of 78,110 as of 2020. [6]
RTA was created after a referendum in 1974. In 1973, CTA had instituted its first major service cuts, [6] and several suburban bus companies, including Evanston Bus Company and Glenview Bus Company had ceased operations, forcing Evanston to make arrangements with CTA and Wilmette to start a municipal service.
It is located at 1612 Benson Avenue (directional coordinates 1600 north, 800 west), in the middle of downtown Evanston, and next to the Davis Street stop of Metra's Union Pacific North Line. The station is also a terminus for one CTA and two Pace bus routes. The station is referred to as the Davis Transit Center by Pace.
Pace, originally the Suburban Bus Authority, has been the operator of the former Wilbus routes since 1995. Pace built a new bus garage on Oakton Avenue in Evanston in 1995 on land purchased in 1986. [16] [17] This garage was designed to service the routes operating in the suburbs near Evanston. The Wilbus routes, buses and employees were ...
The express service is known as the Purple Line Express (or the Evanston Express). In 2022, the average weekday boardings on the Purple Line was 4,730. [ 1 ] It is the shortest route in the CTA rail system except during weekday peaks and rush hours.