Daily Herald1dOpinion
Daily Herald opinion: Yes, the clock is ticking: Lawmakers, don’t leave transit agencies, public waiting to last minute for budget answers
Metra Executive Director Jim Derwinski's grim warning last week to the transit agency's board of directors was in many ways a ...
RTA seeks expanded authority over CTA, Metra, Pace to remedy transit funding crisis
Chicago's transit agency leaders spent the last year rejecting the idea of consolidation in exchange for more funding. The ...
WGN Radio13d
City Club of Chicago: RTA Chairman Kirk Dillard
Regional Transportation Authority City Club event description: Join Kirk Dillard, Chairman of the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA), as ...
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 transfers across services. Buses that can bypass traffic. This is the vision ...
WBEZ14d
RTA seeks expanded authority over CTA, Metra, Pace as solution to transit ‘fiscal cliff’
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 ...
Daily Herald14d
Making its move: RTA proposes universal fares, more trains, cost cuts to counter merger plan
“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 ...
David Greising: Taxpayers deserve to know just how much governments fattened themselves on federal COVID-19 money
COVID-19 money was supposed to go to one-time expenses, not to adding positions and programs that would continue long after ...
Crain's Chicago Business12dOpinion
Opinion: Money alone won't resolve the region's transit crisis
State legislators should understand that this is not a moment for tinkering around the edges. Any increase in transit funding ...
Crain's Chicago Business14d
RTA pitches Springfield on $1.5B revamp to save and even enhance service
The plan is being unveiled today in a speech to the City Club by Kirk Dillard ... current service, the RTA says. The economic impact of such cuts would be enormous, Dillard argues.