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

Union Pacific (UP) has placed Metra’s regional/commuter rail service in Chicagoland “at risk by demanding” that it pay ...

Metra, the region’s commuter rail operator, wants public input on whether to change the identification of its 14 Chicagoland ...

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 ...

Approximately 38% of Metra’s annual ridership (12 million out of a total 32 million passengers) is associated with the three lines owned, used and dispatched by UP (see map, below). Those lines were ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Metra is phasing out the names for some of its lines, and wants to hear from its riders. The commuter rail is phasing out the Union Pacific North, Northwest and West lines.

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 ...

Metra's plans for the station involve more than just a facelift. Find out how long the closure will last and what improvements are in store. Metra plans to close its station at 95th Street ...

Service has returned to normal on four Metra commuter lines, after issues related to the extreme cold delayed several trains during the Tuesday morning rush, and a freight train hit a pedestrian ...