The CTA will test the performance of the buses over the next couple months. The electric buses will travel the busy route #66, along Chicago Avenue between Navy Pier and Austin Boulevard. The CTA ...

CTA has equipped three of its seven bus garages to handle all-electric buses. The additional buses are part of CTA’s march toward converting its fleet of more than 1,800 buses to electric by 2040.

Passengers board a CTA bus near Belmont in Chicago, on Oct. 4, 2023. (Antonio Perez/ Chicago Tribune) ... like the 66 Chicago, the 3 King Drive and the 82 Kimball-Homan.

CTA taking 6 electric buses for trial run The prototypes are part of a green initiative by the CTA and are running on the #66 Chicago route between Austin and Navy Pier.

Two electric buses rolled out Tuesday on the No. 63 route, one of the CTA’s busiest. It runs between 63rd/Stony Island and Midway Airport and is the second route to feature electric buses.

CTA reported the agency is still short 600 bus operators, and is trying to recruit more workers. "We've actually hired over 400 operators in 2022. That's the good news.

The bus, an eastbound no. 66 Chicago bus, was stopped at the corner of Chicago Avenue and North Pulaski Road around 5:30 a.m. when two vehicles slammed into it.