General CTA Knowledge
Chicago’s downtown grid is centered at the intersection of these two streets.
What is State & Madison Streets?
The month employees start decorating for the holiday trains and buses
What is November?
Opening just last year, this Green Line stop is the newest CTA station that provides closer access to the United Center.
What is the Damen stop?
The characters of Shameless live in Canaryville and would probably board the Red Line at 47th St, but some of the shows ‘L’ scenes were actually filmed at this station that services the Green, Orange, and Red Lines, and is also your stop for Bears games.
What is the Roosevelt stop?
The year CTA first introduced fare cards
What is 1997
The name of CTA's intranet
What is eLink?
The CTA sponsored program you would refer someone to if they need assistance rejoining the workforce
What is Second Chance?
Formerly in service as a branch of the Blue Line, the newest CTA train line began operation in 2006 with service between 54th/Cermak and The Loop.
What is the Pink Line?
In The Dark Knight, Bruce Wayne races his Lamborghini below the elevated rail of Gotham City, but in real life the scene was filmed below the Green Line, on this street.
What is Lake Street?
In 2014, CTA made history as the first major U.S transit agency to do this with its bus fleet
What is use electric buses in regular service
The name of the CTA overnight service which runs from approximately midnight to 5AM and is provided through a core network of two ‘L’ trains and 18 bus routes.
What is Night Owl?
Debuting this year, the collection of core CTA bus routes which provide 10-minute or better service all day, every day.
This is the year CTA renamed all its rail lines using colors to identify different routes
What is 1993
Before being promoted to Bus Instructor, real-life CTA driver Denise Hughes was cast to drive a bus in Stranger Than Fiction. She was chosen in part because she regularly drove this bus route taking riders between Austin and Navy Pier and had the highest ridership in 2024.
What is the #66 Chicago route?
The department at CTA an artist would have to contact if they wanted to shoot a video on CTA property
What is CTA Film Coordinator
Built to be an intermodal transit hub, this Blue Line station is the only place where you could catch a CTA train, CTA bus, Metra train, and a Pace bus all within the same complex.
What is the Jefferson Park stop?
This is the oldest CTA bus garage still in operation
What is 77th Street Garage
CTA employees who volunteer to help customers navigate the system during events.
What are Transit Ambassadors
Sandra Bullock’s character in While You Were Sleeping is a fare token collector at the Randolph/Wabash station, which was demolished in 2017 along with the Madison/Wabash station to consolidate into the second newest ‘L’ station.
What is the Washington/Wabash stop?
The governor appoints these many members of the CTA's board of directors.
What is 3
The total number of miles of "L" track CTA operates across the city and suburbs
What is 226 miles?
The number of bus routes CTA currently operates
What is 127
Over 100 years before color came to CTA trains, the Chicago and South Side Rapid Transit Railroad began operations in 1892, with service between Pershing and Congress Street on tracks now used by this line.
What is the Green Line?
In The Blues Brothers, Elwood lives in a cramped apartment that shakes every few minutes as a CTA train roars past. Though it was then known as the Ravenswood Route, this line went past Elwood’s apartment.
What is the Brown Line?
The slogan CTA adopted to encourage riders to report suspicious activity
What is "If you see something, say something"