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
Transportation Tuesday recap: Building transit-friendly streets and advancing bus rapid transit
Partnering with roadway agencies to build more transit-friendly streets and advance bus rapid transit (BRT) is a goal outlined in the RTA’s regional strategi...
June 13, 2024
Transportation Tuesday recap: Parking mandates and TOD
Parking dominates metropolitan areas of the United States, in both land area and, often, in policy debates related to land use and development. In 2013, the ...
June 7, 2024
Transportation Tuesday recap: Improving and expanding the transit system strategically
With last year’s adoption of Transit is the Answer came 15 new evaluation metrics that comprise a strategy for evaluating and selecting capital projects. Now...
May 30, 2024
Transportation Tuesday recap: Advancing a Regional Capital Strategy
One of the core responsibilities of the RTA is to work with the CTA, Metra, and Pace to advance a capital strategy that ensures major transit investments are...
June 28, 2023
Transportation Tuesday recap: Transit in Industrial Corridors: Community Experience, Accessibility, and Freight Interactions
Transit and freight movement are two quintessential aspects of Chicago’s legacy, present, and future. Industrial corridors, however, are not equitably distri...
June 21, 2023
Transportation Tuesday recap: Mobility Hubs: Connecting Transportation Options for a More Seamless Experience
“Mobility hub” is a term you may not have heard before, but you have likely interacted with one. Mobility hubs are places of connectivity where different tra...
June 14, 2023
Transportation Tuesday recap: A New Era for Chicago Transit: Adapting Service to Address Changing and Unmet Needs of Riders
The COVID-19 pandemic caused dramatic, lasting shifts in how and when Chicagoans move around the region as well as laying bare inequities in transportation a...
June 7, 2023
Register now for four-part Transportation Tuesday webinar series
The RTA is bringing back Transportation Tuesday, its popular four-part webinar series each Tuesday in June from noon to 1 p.m. The free, virtual sessions wil...
May 15, 2023
