RTA seeks expanded authority over CTA, Metra, Pace as solution to transit 'fiscal cliff'
Chicago's transit agency leaders spent the past year rejecting the idea of consolidation in exchange for more funding. The ...
RTA proposes more bus and train service, fare hikes and stronger central agency as lawmakers prepare to debate future of transit
CTA trains every five to 10 minutes all day and better Metra service at midday, nights and weekends. One app for fares and ...
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Making its move: RTA proposes universal fares, more trains, cost cuts to counter merger plan
Amid a $770 million budget gap facing Metra, Pace and the CTA, and a proposal to merge the three into a supersized agency, ...
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RTA pitches Springfield on $1.5B revamp to save and even enhance service
Chicago-area transit leaders are unveiling a plan they say would both avoid a sharp post-COVID reduction in service and help ...
Chicago Agency Pitches $1.5 Billion Plan to Fix Transit Woes
Chicago transit officials are advocating for a $1.5 billion annual funding package to help keep one of the country’s largest transportation systems afloat as it stares down a steep financial cliff in ...
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RTA Wants Lawmakers to Boost Its Authority to Oversee, Coordinate Chicago-Area Transit
The proposal comes as the Chicago region’s transit agencies are facing down an estimated $750 million fiscal cliff next year when COVID-19 relief money runs out — and amid conversations in Springfield ...
Daywatch: Donald Trump’s mass deportation pledge could test Chicago’s immigrant protections
Good morning, Chicago. President-elect Donald Trump’s vow to enact mass deportations — and his famous antipathy toward ...
CTA President Dorval Carter to retire as head of transit agency
CHICAGO (WLS) -- CTA President Dorval Carter, Jr. announced Monday he will retire as head of the transit agency at the end of the month.
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New Orleans RTA ousts its longtime attorney as FBI investigates the agency
The RTA Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Thursday to terminate the agency’s contract with general counsel Sundiata Haley, shortly after the board went into executive session to discuss ...
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RTA announces extended Dubai Metro timings for January 12
Dubai Metro will start operations as early as 5am, instead of 8am, on Sunday, January 12, the Roads and Transport Authority announced on Thursday. The metro timings are being extended to ...
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Kirk Herbstreit Predicting College Football Playoff Semifinal Upset
It was an interesting night on Thursday for ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit, who swore on live TV when discussing the "perception" around the Ohio State Buckeyes. "There's this perception that they went ...