Good news: Regional transit ridership reaches new high as CTA, Metra, and Pace increase service, offer new fare products
Ridership across Chicago’s transit system has continued to increase, with May 2024 seeing the highest ridership levels since 2019 for CTA, Metra, and Pace. T...
June 28, 2024
Legislative Update: Lawmakers pass state budget, action on transit funding still needed ahead of fiscal cliff
The Illinois General Assembly adjourned this year’s spring legislative session after passing an overall $53.1 billion budget for State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2025...
June 27, 2024
Read recaps and watch recordings of the RTA's four-part Transportation Tuesday webinar series
The RTA brought back Transportation Tuesday, its popular four-part webinar series each Tuesday May 28–June 18 from noon to 1:30 p.m. The free, virtual sessio...
June 25, 2024
Transportation Tuesday recap: Transit’s operating funding crisis
The rise of remote and hybrid work and its staying power post-COVID have resulted in significant losses in fare revenue and exacerbated the issue that most s...
June 21, 2024
Why fully funding paratransit service and reduced fare programs is key to closing the transit budget gap
With transit facing a fiscal cliff in the coming years, fully funding critical programs like ADA paratransit service and free and reduced fare programs is on...
February 29, 2024
RTA unveils 2024 legislative agenda to address fiscal cliff, improve regional transit system
Since the adoption of Transit is the Answer, the strategic plan for the region’s transit system, the State of Illinois has taken important legislative action...
November 27, 2023
RTA launches performance measures dashboards to track progress on strategic plan outcomes
The RTA’s regional transit strategic plan, Transit is the Answer, identifies six key outcomes that are needed to achieve the plan’s vision of “safe, reliable...
October 4, 2023
What Illinois can learn from transit funding packages in peer states
Public transit plays an essential role in the lives of millions of riders across the Chicago region and has the potential to reach even more people — but the...
August 24, 2023
What is the ‘fiscal cliff’ and what can be done about it?
After more than a year of engagement, the RTA has released a draft regional transit strategic plan, Transit is the Answer, which the RTA Board of Directors w...
December 15, 2022
