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

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

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

Regional Transportation Authority City Club event description: Join Kirk Dillard, Chairman of the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA), as ...

said Kirk Dillard, the RTA chairman, in a Wednesday speech at the City Club of Chicago. Moreover, train and bus operators would have to be laid off. “The extraordinary economic and environmental ...

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.

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 ...

RTA Chairman Kirk Dillard is asking state lawmakers to grant the agency substantially more authority to govern fares, service and investments in major projects. CTA, Pace and Metra would maintain ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.