Connections Blog

The RTA's Will Gillespie presenting agency research on access to opportunities provided by Chicagoland transit By Jessica Hector-Hsu,  Director, Planning and...

Regional riders got some good news yesterday.  As you may have read in Crain's Chicago Business or the Chicago Tribune, our region is set to benefit from jus...

Several students who attended the 19th annual Transportation Symposium and Business Exchange  were offered positions with vendors. The RTA has an idea for a ...

As we head into 2017, I wanted to take a moment to look back on 2016 and share what the RTA has accomplished.  We think of you, the riders, in all we do.  We...

We prefer not to think of this outer wear as ugly; after all, it's in the eye of the beholder, right?  We thought we'd share a bit of  RTA holiday joy with y...

Do you remember the 90’s, the era of Michael Jordan and “must see TV,” when everyone sat down on a couch and watched Friends and Seinfeld at the same time?  ...

At this morning’s meeting, the RTA Board of Directors unanimously approved the 2017 operating budgets for the RTA, Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), Metra and...

By Chris Szmurlo, Senior Planner, RTA The RTA’s Community Planning program, established in 1998, provides the RTA with a mechanism to enable local governmen...

One of the most important functions of the RTA is to review the annual budgets of the CTA, Metra, Pace and ADA Paratransit to ensure they are balanced and co...

Anyone who runs their own business knows that finding customers can be the hardest work of all.  And, for companies who need to buy goods or services, findin...

We are pleased to report that Village of Bartlett’s recently adopted Downtown Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Plan is funded through the RTA’s Community P...

The RTA recently released two performance measure reports, the 2015 Regional Report Card and the 2015 Sub-Regional Report that measure and monitor our transi...