Pictured is the CTA Lake Street Line in Chicago’s Loop. Agency celebrates achievements, honors instructors,. In its commitment to deliver more frequent and reliable bus and rail service this year, the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) celebrated two major milestones today -the training and qualifying of more than 200 new rail operators and the hiring of more than 1,000 new bus operators in 2024, of which more than 850 have entered service. CTA President Dorval R. Carter, Jr., along with other agency leadership celebrated these landmark achievements, which were critical to the agency reaching pre-pandemic service levels across the bus and rail systems before the end of the year.