CTA expanding bus service to Obama Presidential Center
The Chicago Transit Authority is expanding its no. 10 bus route to service the Obama Presidential Center that's expected to open in June.
The seasonal bus route that currently runs express between Water Tower Place and the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry will, beginning May 23, reach nearly a mile farther south to the Presidential Center, according to the CTA.
The revised route — to be renamed the no. 10 Obama Presidential Center/Museum of Science & Industry Express — will run year-round instead of being limited between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
The CTA expects ridership on the new route to triple to around 450 daily riders, Molly Poppe, CTA's chief innovation officer, told the CTA board on Wednesday.
Service will run about every half hour from roughly 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., she said.
Other bus and train service currently services the area near the Presidential Center includes: the no. 2 Hyde Park Express, no. 6 Jackson Park Express, no. 15 Jeffery Local, no. 28 Stony Island, no. 59 59th/61st and no. 63 63rd.
The Metra Electric District Line also stops nearby at the 59th St.-Univ. Of Chicago and 63rd Street Metra stops.
Tickets for the Obama Presidential Center go on sale to the general public May 6. The campus is scheduled to open June 19.