Amtrak Announces Comprehensive Development & Improvement Program for Union Station
On October 16, Chairman Dillard joined our partners at Amtrak and Metra to discuss a new program to revitalize Union Station, an important hub for transporta...
Oct 16, 2015
RTA Board Meeting Dates for 2016
Don’t forget to pencil in the RTA board dates for 2016. The RTA Board of Directors meets every month and the meetings are open to the public. We’ve shared a...
Oct 15, 2015
RTA Releases 2014 Regional Public Transportation Performance Measures
The RTA recently released our 2014 annual reports on the region’s public transportation system’s performance. The RTA is the only unit of local government c...
Oct 15, 2015
Partners for Clean Air and RTA Keep Us All Smilin'
Recently, members of the RTA family participated in the Partners for Clean Air 20th Anniversary Celebration. For nearly a decade, we have been a sponsor of t...
Oct 14, 2015
RTA Regional 2014 Transit Ridership Study Finds Some Growth in Down Year
CTA Rail and Metra Ridership Hit New Highs In a year that saw an overall decrease in regional ridership in the six-county Northeast Illinois Regional Transp...
Oct 14, 2015
Village of Palatine Starting Work on Transit-Oriented Development Plan
The Village of Palatine, located about 30 miles northwest of Chicago announced plans to develop a transit-oriented development (TOD) plan to enhance the area...
Oct 14, 2015
Southwest Suburban Communities Complete Plan to Increase Transit
The Southwest Conference of Mayors recently announced the completion of the Cicero Avenue Corridor Plan that developed strategies to increase multi-modal tra...
Oct 14, 2015
RTA Moves Transit-Oriented Development Forward Throughout Region
The Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) is a leader in fostering Transit Oriented Development (TOD) creation in the six-county RTA region and is proud to...
Oct 14, 2015
RTA Hosts Access to Transit Workshop
The RTA, in partnership with DePaul University’s Chaddick Institute, recently hosted the second annual access to transit workshop, Access to Transit: Connect...
Oct 14, 2015
Public Transportation Provides Options
If you want to get around congested areas and traffic, public transportation can provide a variety of safe affordable options. In a recent post, Crain's Gre...
Oct 14, 2015
RTA Chairman Kirk Dillard's Voice in Wall Street Journal
I'm happy to report that a recent letter to the editor that I wrote was published in the Wall Street Journal. Since it was passed, Congress took some positi...
Oct 7, 2015
Today's RTA Is Part of the Solution
RTA Isn't the Problem We agree with Greg Hinz's story that billions of dollars are needed to complete the renovation of the Chicago Transit Authority syste...
Oct 5, 2015
