Connections Blog

Welcome to Ride On. Here at the RTA, we are committed to providing public transportation riders in our six-county region with a safe, affordable experience f...

We’re proud to participate in the 18th Annual Transportation Symposium and Business Exchange, an event that gives information to local businesses interested ...

Did you catch the Daily SouthTown’s  October 29th story, Transit-related improvements from Southland, describing just how the RTA has been helping to elimina...

The RTA is looking for your input! We recently held joint public hearings with Metra about the 2016 proposed regional transportation budgets.  If you had the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Southwest Conference of Mayors recently announced the completion of the Cicero Avenue Corridor Plan that developed strategies to increase multi-modal tra...

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...