Frequent Network

Twenty bus routes now have service added to ensure 10-minute or better scheduled service between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekends. Seventy percent of the CTA service area is now within a half mile of a Frequent Network route.

Routes that are part of the Frequent Network have seen the highest levels of scheduled service since 2010. The Frequent Network, which launched in March 2025, has been steadily growing — delivering the network of service to more than 2.3 million riders in the Chicago area.

The Frequent Network builds on CTA’s Bus Vision Framing Report, which analyzed CTA bus service and identified much needed service improvements on weekends, evenings and midday​ to ensure CTA’s buses better serve riders, especially low-income and minority riders. The next phase of the Bus Vision Project will provide people in the service area an opportunity to share their input on how CTA bus service can better serve their communities and the attributes of CTA bus service that are most important to them, such as frequency, hours of operation, routing and access to service, among other features.

Frequent routes

• #4 Cottage Grove 
  20% more service Sundays. Overnight "Owl" service extended south from 63rd to 95th/Dan Ryan Red Line station.
   
• #9 Ashland
  10% more service weekdays
   
• #12 Roosevelt
  15% more service Saturdays, 25% more service Sundays/holidays
   
• #J14 Jeffery Jump
  20% more service on weekdays, 35% more service on weekends; hours of service increased weekdays and Sundays.
   
• #20 Madison
  10% more service weekdays and Saturdays, 25% more service Sundays.
   
• #34 South Michigan
  Weekday service will run every 6-10 minutes instead of every 8-16 minutes.
   
• #47 47th
  Service doubled between Kedzie and Midway stations on the Orange Line.
   
• #49 Western
  10% more service weekdays and Saturdays, 25% more service Sundays.
   
• #53 Pulaski
  25% more service weekdays and Sundays/holidays, 10% more service Saturdays. Extended south from 31st/Pulaski to 76th/Ford City Mall. Overnight "owl" service extended south from Pulaski/Harrison to Pulaski Orange Line station.
   
• #54 Cicero
  30% more service on Sundays.
   
• #55 Garfield
  20% more service weekdays, 30% more service Saturdays and Sundays/holidays.
   
• #60 Blue Island/26th
  45% more service on weekends.
   
• #63 63rd
  40% more service between Midway station on the Orange Line and Kedzie/63rd.
   
• #66 Chicago
  10% more service weekdays. Overnight "Owl" service extended west from Pulaski to Austin.
   
• #72 North
  10% more service Weekdays and Saturdays, 25% more service Sundays/holidays
   
• #77 Belmont
  10% more service Saturdays, 20% more service Sundays/holidays.
   
• #79 79th
  50% more service between Western Ave and Ford City on weekdays, 20% more service between Western Ave and Ford City on Saturdays.
   
• #81 Lawrence
  10% more service Saturdays, 25% more service Sundays/holidays
   
• #82 Kimball/Homan
  15% more service weekdays; 45% more service Saturdays and 60% more service Sundays/holidays. Extended west from Central Park/31st to 31st/Pulaski.
   
• #95 95th
  20% more service weekdays, more than 30% more service weekends.