Obama/MSI Express (Route 10) Discussion

[Sam92]

On 5/8/2026 at 9:30 PM, jajuan said:

 

Plus CTA hasn't really gotten completely away from shared routes in regards to K specifically. C still shares the a.m. rush trips of the 12 with K for example. Plus there's still the a.m. 7/K and p.m. C/K splits on 120, 121 and 125. 

That's a rock and a hard place as far asoving routes from those two. Only thing you can do is move #35 from K to 77th or 74th. Now C is basically pulled into helping K in making up for A and Limits being gone and THEY themselves have a serious work load going for them as well with them having 66, 72, 53 and soon 74 on FBN so who knows we may slightly return to sharing to some degree if CTA can't come up on a new garage soon 

On 5/7/2026 at 10:10 AM, artthouwill said:

I know CTA has gotten away from route sharing,  but a NP/103rd split f the 10 could work if the unissued is artics.  

K should have plenty of artics since they're only doing rush #151 work and there's the surplus. Also NP wouldn't work cause of reliefs at least 103rd drivers can just take #28. Even 77th has the red line to relieve it at State/Van Buren like K does vs the Blue Line (plus it helped on #10 on the past)

[sht6131]

2 hours ago, Sam92 said:

That's a rock and a hard place as far asoving routes from those two. Only thing you can do is move #35 from K to 77th or 74th. Now C is basically pulled into helping K in making up for A and Limits being gone and THEY themselves have a serious work load going for them as well with them having 66, 72, 53 and soon 74 on FBN so who knows we may slightly return to sharing to some degree if CTA can't come up on a new garage soon 

K should have plenty of artics since they're only doing rush #151 work and there's the surplus. Also NP wouldn't work cause of reliefs at least 103rd drivers can just take #28. Even 77th has the red line to relieve it at State/Van Buren like K does vs the Blue Line (plus it helped on #10 on the past)

I think K also does artics weekdays for 156.

 

[Sam92]

25 minutes ago, sht6131 said:

I think K also does artics weekdays for 156.

 

Yeah but #10 probably uses 5-7 buses with the extension, K is AM heavy and the #10 starts after rush hour so that along with #151 no longer being there should help but again #10 never had them for more than a few weeks at a time. If anything since #10 is midday the issue might be trying to fit #10 in after adding more off peak service to 12, 60 and 82

[EasyMoney]

2 hours ago, sht6131 said:

I think K also does artics weekdays for 156.

 

that’s a route that always have a Artic if I’m not mistaken while I was at north park I only seen Artics on that route 

[artthouwill]

9 hours ago, Sam92 said:

That's a rock and a hard place as far asoving routes from those two. Only thing you can do is move #35 from K to 77th or 74th. Now C is basically pulled into helping K in making up for A and Limits being gone and THEY themselves have a serious work load going for them as well with them having 66, 72, 53 and soon 74 on FBN so who knows we may slightly return to sharing to some degree if CTA can't come up on a new garage soon 

K should have plenty of artics since they're only doing rush #151 work and there's the surplus. Also NP wouldn't work cause of reliefs at least 103rd drivers can just take #28. Even 77th has the red line to relieve it at State/Van Buren like K does vs the Blue Line (plus it helped on #10 on the past)

My response was based on a post that seemed to reference P possibly doing runs on the expanded 10 based on a shortage of drivers at K.  Someone also mentioned that maybe 35 should go back to 77th from K. That'sthe onlyreasonImentionedthat a P/103rd splitcouldbean idea.  CTA most likelywillkeepK as the primarygarage forthe10 withthepossibilityofP filling in.  .

[YoungBusLover]

Well I'm glad they fixed the sign before the new pick goes into effect. 

[Sam92]

13 hours ago, YoungBusLover said:

Well I'm glad they fixed the sign before the new pick goes into effect. 

So I guess this time the signs are gonna function like the #100  (10 Express to Water Tower or MSI & Obama Ctr?) vs the what it used to and the 124/130 current do?

[MetroShadow]

1 hour ago, TaylorTank1229 said:

New schedule for the #10 is now available. The website updated the page for the route too.

https://www.transitchicago.com/assets/1/6/bus-tt_10.pdf

Related….

[Busjack]

52 minutes ago, MetroShadow said:

Related….

Based on the new schedule, is there any reason why Saturday starts 5 minutes before weekday and Sunday?

[TaylorTank1229]

Does anyone know why the 10 isn’t appearing on the bus tracker? Like, it’s in the route selection but no trips are showing.

[YoungBusLover]

38 minutes ago, TaylorTank1229 said:

Does anyone know why the 10 isn’t appearing on the bus tracker? Like, it’s in the route selection but no trips are showing.

The #10 was appearing earlier this week I guess they're reconfiguring the route on the tracker before the new pick goes into effect. I saw #10s running all week along with instruction buses from K showing operators the new line extension and where to layover for it. So it appears K will be taking on the ownership for the summer until the System and Fall picks happening later on this summer. 

[jajuan]

On 5/10/2026 at 10:35 PM, EasyMoney said:

Haven’t heard anything about 103rd sharing the 10 

From what I saw over the last week, it's still solely assigned to Kedzie. Funny thing though is that the tracker wasn't tracking any of the buses the first several days. So my observations were all actual in person sightings. 

[jajuan]

Oh I forgot to mention that so far I have not seen artics roll out on the 10. In all my observations so far, there were only 40 foot buses out. Though history has shown that on busy weekends, K has sent out artics instead of 40 footers. We'll just have to see what happens after the Obama Center officially opens on the 19th. 

[EasyMoney]

To answer our question yes Kedzie is using Artics on the #10 seen bus (4006) while operating the 6 today 

[Erin Mishkin Jr.]

1 hour ago, EasyMoney said:

To answer our question yes Kedzie is using Artics on the #10 seen bus (4006) while operating the 6 today 

Finally they using it, the novas are what are having problems on the 10. Yesterday the mirror came off of 8883 on LSD and they switched buses to 1114, now today it appears 8643 broke down and there was no replacement for that

[Busjack]

On 6/9/2026 at 12:41 AM, EasyMoney said:

To answer our question yes Kedzie is using Artics on the #10 seen bus (4006) while operating the 6 today 

Considering news reports that admission tickets are sold out into November, CTA may have a winner here!

[EasyMoney]

This is pure speculation I haven’t seen a Artic on the 10 since 6/8 maybe cta thinks since the (6 Jackson park express) is a Artic route and it goes rite in front of the Obama library maybe putting a Artic on the 10 isn’t a priority I noticed a lot of 6 runs are getting more Artics the run I have today usually doesn’t pull out one but since the opening of the Obama library I been pulling a Artic out of the garage on the 6

[Sam92]

7 minutes ago, EasyMoney said:

This is pure speculation I haven’t seen a Artic on the 10 since 6/8 maybe cta thinks since the (6 Jackson park express) is a Artic route and it goes rite in front of the Obama library maybe putting a Artic on the 10 isn’t a priority I noticed a lot of 6 runs are getting more Artics the run I have today usually doesn’t pull out one but since the opening of the Obama library I been pulling a Artic out of the garage on the 6

Artics on #10 are more related to Vacation/high volume tourist times rather than the #6. 103rd sucks at maintaining artics so if anything south shops probably had a chance to finally address some artics on LTH

[andrethebusman]

On 5/10/2026 at 8:35 PM, EasyMoney said:

Haven’t heard anything about 103rd sharing the 10 

10 is strictly Kedzie. Also, what is the turnaround at Obama Center? Map just shows Stony Island to 62nd, available photos show no obvious off street terminal?

[Tcmetro]

5 hours ago, andrethebusman said:

10 is strictly Kedzie. Also, what is the turnaround at Obama Center? Map just shows Stony Island to 62nd, available photos show no obvious off street terminal?

The board meeting map shows the turnaround at 64th St.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/transportation/2026/04/09/cta-10-bus-route-obama-presidential-center

[Busjack]

4 hours ago, Tcmetro said:

The board meeting map shows the turnaround at 64th St.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/transportation/2026/04/09/cta-10-bus-route-obama-presidential-center

In short, same as 63.

 

[YoungBusLover]

Looks like C will be sharing the 10 with K for a bit longer than I expected. 

[andrethebusman]

1 hour ago, YoungBusLover said:

Looks like C will be sharing the 10 with K for a bit longer than I expected. 

Are the C's extras? All scheduled 10 work is by K, total of four buses.

[YoungBusLover]

1 hour ago, andrethebusman said:

Are the C's extras? All scheduled 10 work is by K, total of four buses.

They are definitely extras from what I've observed since the Obama Center opened.  

[jajuan]

With the 10 now being year-round daily service and the 35 set to become part of FBN starting Sunday, it makes me wonder if K losing buses in the fall every year has become a thing of the past.