The CTA announced today the addition of 18 new bus routes set to go live on the agency’s Bus Tracker service on May 19th. With the additional routes, a total of 32 routes will be available on Bus Tracker.

The new routes primarily originate out of 74th Garage, but also include the #X20 Washington/Madison Express along with several newly-assigned Archer routes that were not added last month.

The full list of new routes is as follows:

• #9 Ashland
• #X9 Ashland Express
• #X20 Washington/Madison Express
• #21 Cermak
• #44 Wallace/Racine
• #47 47th
• #48 South Damen
• #50 Damen
• #51 51st
• #52A South Kedzie
• #53A South Pulaski
• #55 Garfield
• #X55 Garfield Express
• #59 59th/61st
• #60 Blue Island/26th
• #63 63rd
• #67 67th/69th/71st
• #75 74th/75th

The CTA plans to continue adding new routes to Bus Tracker each month, with deployment scheduled to be completed by early 2009.