Since the emergency infusion of federal funds for transit enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic started to run out, Railway Age has been reporting on how major transit providers have been faring. Some, ...

CHICAGO – Cities and states across the country are reckoning with a major funding crisis for mass transit, and Chicago has become the latest city to fall off its “fiscal cliff,” failing to guarantee ...

CHICAGO -- Transit agency officials in Chicagoland met this week and formally began the process of planning for next year's budget, including drawing up plans for major service cuts and potential ...

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As I and 100,000 other people headed home from Lollapalooza, I saw a “Save Transit Now” flyer plastered on the Red Line’s Jefferson station. It warned riders that without a $1.5 billion increase in ...

What is a rider’s responsibility to a transit agency? Pay your fare and show courtesy to fellow travelers and hard-working staffers. That’s all. Riders are customers, after all. But if you listen to ...

With just over two weeks to go before their spring adjournment, lawmakers in Springfield are facing a tight deadline to pass major reforms to Chicagoland’s transit system — but officials have released ...

A Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line train waits at the Forest Park, Illinois station for the eastern journey to downtown Chicago on Tuesday, September 3, 2024. [AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast] The ...

The proposals give new power to the agency that oversees the Chicago Transit Authority, Metra commuter rail and Pace Suburban Bus. The newly renamed Northern Illinois Transit Authority would have ...

SPRINGFIELD — State lawmakers finally reached their destination by passing a transit bill to save the Chicago area’s ailing transit agencies early Friday, capping the final night of the fall veto ...