Metra Executive Director Jim Derwinski's grim warning last week to the transit agency's board of directors was in many ways a ...

RTA Chairman Kirk Dillard is asking state lawmakers to grant the RTA substantially more authority to govern fares, service and investments in major projects. According to the plan, which Dillard ...

COVID-19 money was supposed to go to one-time expenses, not to adding positions and programs that would continue long after ...

Some lawmakers want to consolidate the Chicago area’s four public transit agencies this year in exchange for more state money to steer the agencies away from an impending fiscal cliff.

CTA trains every five to 10 minutes all day and better Metra service at midday, nights and weekends. One app for fares and transfers across services. Buses that can bypass traffic. This is the vision ...

The agency said the Chicago Transit Authority, Metra, and Pace suburban buses will face a $770 million budget deficit and potentially drastic service cuts next year.

“We want to create a seamless integrated system for our region that’s been long overdue,” RTA Chair Kirk Dillard told the Daily Herald in an exclusive interview Monday. The “Transforming ...

The proposal comes as the Chicago region’s transit agencies are facing down an estimated $750 million fiscal cliff next year ...

State legislators should understand that this is not a moment for tinkering around the edges. Any increase in transit funding ...

Metra and Pace said they generally support a strengthened RTA after Chairman Kirk Dillard laid out a vision Wednesday that requires $1.5 billion in additional state money to run many more trains ...