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In this blog post, I want to round out our series highlighting the Strategic Plan’s priority projects for CTA, Metra and Pace. For the first time in recent h...

Earlier this month, we started a series of blogs that look at the Strategic Plan’s priority projects for CTA, Metra and Pace. A quick recap: these are real p...

Today is APTA’s National Public Transportation Career Day, a national workforce development initiative that introduces K-12 students to careers in public tra...

Today, the RTA announced the appointment of Dr. Brian Sager as its newest board member, representing McHenry County. Dr. Sager has been the mayor of Woodsto...

Infrastructure isn’t sexy. Roads and highways, trains and buses; these are not topics known to elicit a lot of excitement. National Infrastructure Week, May ...

Imagine you’re a homeowner whose home has been around for close to a century. Naturally, it needs a lot of upkeep. The roof needs new shingles, the appliance...

["This year marks the 20th anniversary of the RTA’s Community Planning program, and the RTA’s involvement in community planning as it relates to public trans...

Did you know Metra has spent more money developing and installing the Positive Train Control (PTC) safety system than it has raised in fare increases in the ...

Mobility. It’s in our nature to move and these days we have more options than ever to take us from point A to point B. People now have a plethora of options ...

All of us at the RTA want to thank our colleagues at Metra for hosting our kids (and us) for Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day 2018!  Working in transi...

This week, we’re joining CTA, Metra and Pace to celebrate Earth Week, which begins with Earth Day on Sunday, April 22. One of the best ways to celebrate Ear...

Today we released two reports that focus on how the Chicago region's transit agencies perform in comparison to their peers: the 2016 Regional Peer Review and...