City of Chicago and RTA Working Together to Foster Development and Access to Transit
Today the RTA joined the City of Chicago to announce progress on two major projects in our region. The first is the City’s Planning Commission adoption today...
December 20, 2018
Tell us What you Think of Transit!
The RTA is asking transit riders to participate in a short survey to help the transit agencies better understand rider opinions of how we’re doing like, “Wou...
October 18, 2018
Design by Transit: The 2018 Community Planning Program Implementation Report
This month we continue celebrating the 20th anniversary of the RTA’s Community Planning program by reporting on recent implementation efforts that advanced t...
September 5, 2018
Transit and Parking Meet in Evanston
By Brian Hacker, AICP To continue our conversation about the benefits of the RTA’s Community Planning program and celebrate its 20th anniversary, I want to ...
July 27, 2018
Invest in Transit: What our future could hold
Do you remember those “choose your own adventure” books where you made a choice for the main character and flipped to a certain page to learn of his or her f...
June 29, 2018
Community Planning: Turning Plans into Reality
As we continue to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the RTA’s Community Planning program, I want to highlight different aspects of the program that help enco...
June 14, 2018
Regional Public Transit System Ranks High Among Peers
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...
April 19, 2018
Village of Libertyville Adopts Transit-Oriented Development Plan
The Libertyville Village Board unanimously adopted a new plan to further advance transit-oriented development (TOD) in the downtown area surrounding its Metr...
January 30, 2018
Invest in Transit: Now is the time to act.
All great cities and regions have robust transit systems, and those that don’t are racing to build them. Public transportation is a cornerstone of any great ...
January 18, 2018
TOD Zoning Updates Translate Planning Goals into Policy
By Brian Hacker, AICP This year the RTA is celebrating the 20th anniversary of our Community Planning program. Since 1998, we have been working with local p...
January 17, 2018
Chicago Ranks High for Transit Access to Jobs
By Will Gillespie, Principal Analyst – Strategic Planning Chicago is a great city for taking transit to get to work! That was further acknowledged by a rec...
December 13, 2017
RTA Strategic Plan: Make Your Voice Heard!
After two years of research, close collaboration with the CTA, Metra and Pace and outreach to a vast network of stakeholders, Invest in Transit: the 2018-202...
December 11, 2017
