The Pace Suburban Bus agency unveiled its latest round of service improvements in late February, this time largely in the west, south and southwest suburbs.
The agency has been quietly improving bus service since 2024, adding evening and weekend service, increasing service on some of its busier routes and reversing some of the pandemic-era service cuts. Those changes are introduced as six-month pilots. Since they all resulted in ridership increases, Pace Board of Directors made all the pilots introduced so far permanent.
The latest round of pilot routes was introduced during the Feb. 18 board meeting. Most notably, Pace will create a direct connection to Chicago Midway International Airport for Oak Park, Cicero, Stickney and Chicago’s Austin neighborhood. The pilot routes will also add evening service in the North Shore suburbs and improve weekend service on Chicago’s Far South Side and in south suburbs. For Routes 315 and 349, the changes will take effect on March 15. For Route 213, the changes will take effect on March 16…