Sarah Freishtat
@sfreishtat.bsky.social
Once: reporter @chicagotribune. Now investigating elsewhere.
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March 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Apply for my job! The transportation beat is broad and fascinating, and can be window into the region’s most urgent issues, its challenges and successes, and its place in the country. The colleagues are the best you could ask for
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Worth noting, CTA has been sued five times in the past year over FOIA issues www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/28/t...
Tribune files lawsuit against CTA for failing to turn over documents related to 2023 Yellow Line crash, among other FOIA requests
The lawsuit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court, cites six FOIA requests made by a Tribune reporter over 14 months in which the CTA did not respond promptly, fully or at all.
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March 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Worth noting, CTA has been sued five times in the past year over FOIA issues www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/28/t...
On COVID relief operating funding: At least one transit agency, Metra, says they have all the relief money in hand - though not yet spent - so there’s nothing left for the federal government to disburse and it wouldn’t be affected
January 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
On COVID relief operating funding: At least one transit agency, Metra, says they have all the relief money in hand - though not yet spent - so there’s nothing left for the federal government to disburse and it wouldn’t be affected
CTA so far says it continues to view the Red Line extension grant agreement as “a binding and legal commitment”
January 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
CTA so far says it continues to view the Red Line extension grant agreement as “a binding and legal commitment”
More here: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/15/c...
CTA chief of staff to become interim president after Dorval Carter’s retirement
The next CTA leader will face the task of helping to rebuild trust in the agency, after years of complaints about service, personal safety and conditions on buses and trains
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January 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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"I could not be more excited to start the next chapter ofmy life, and want you all the know that it has been the honor of a lifetime to serve as CTA president. And it is humbling to remember that this journey began when I was a little boy on the South Side of Chicago," Carter says
January 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
"I could not be more excited to start the next chapter ofmy life, and want you all the know that it has been the honor of a lifetime to serve as CTA president. And it is humbling to remember that this journey began when I was a little boy on the South Side of Chicago," Carter says
^perhaps not surprising that Carter is highlighting the Red Line extension at what's expected to be his final board meeting. He announced his retirement days after locking in crucial federal funding for the project, which has long been near and dear to him
January 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
^perhaps not surprising that Carter is highlighting the Red Line extension at what's expected to be his final board meeting. He announced his retirement days after locking in crucial federal funding for the project, which has long been near and dear to him
Carter talks at his final meeting about the Red Line extension, long impt to him
"It took focus, it took time and most important it required funding...We believe people of the Far South Side deserved the same access to transit, jobs and opportunities as the the rest of the city”
"It took focus, it took time and most important it required funding...We believe people of the Far South Side deserved the same access to transit, jobs and opportunities as the the rest of the city”
January 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Carter talks at his final meeting about the Red Line extension, long impt to him
"It took focus, it took time and most important it required funding...We believe people of the Far South Side deserved the same access to transit, jobs and opportunities as the the rest of the city”
"It took focus, it took time and most important it required funding...We believe people of the Far South Side deserved the same access to transit, jobs and opportunities as the the rest of the city”
CTA’s announcement 👇
January 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
CTA’s announcement 👇
And days after Mayor Brandon Johnson gave Carter his pointed endorsement, saying “Any attempt to hold hostage the people of Chicago for anyone’s political gain, we’re certainly not going to acquiesce to those levels of constraints”
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/10/a...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/10/a...
Ahead of CTA fiscal cliff, Mayor Brandon Johnson warns Springfield not to hold Chicago hostage for ‘political gain’
The CTA Red Line extension funding announcement doubled as an endorsement of CTA President Dorval Carter’s job performance.
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January 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
And days after Mayor Brandon Johnson gave Carter his pointed endorsement, saying “Any attempt to hold hostage the people of Chicago for anyone’s political gain, we’re certainly not going to acquiesce to those levels of constraints”
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/10/a...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/10/a...
This comes days after Carter formally locked in the remainder of the money needed to advance the Red Line extension, a project that has been very near and dear to his heart
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/06/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/06/c...
CTA to lock in federal funding for Red Line extension before Trump takes office
A large, nearly $2 billion federal grant, key to moving the $5.3 billion project forward, had been promised to the CTA but the formal agreement not yet signed.
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January 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This comes days after Carter formally locked in the remainder of the money needed to advance the Red Line extension, a project that has been very near and dear to his heart
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/06/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/06/c...