State lawmakers are spending this spring’s legislative session debating how to solve a $771 million funding gap the Chicago ...

Chicago’s leaders are asking suburban taxpayers to take a “leap of faith” — to trust them with the future of public transit. But after years of financial mismanagement, runaway debt and ...

And the complexity is just beginning to come into public view ... responsible for developing a long-term vision for the Chicago area’s transportation needs, could use the transition period ...

Sun-Times file photo Share Recently, the Labor Alliance for Public Transportation launched a website on the Chicago area’s dire transit funding crisis. While labor’s proposed legislation has ...

Chicago's three mass transit agenices have said riders could face 40% service cuts next year without new state funding.

A study by Argonne and MIT reveals the significant impacts of losing public transit in the Chicago region, from pollution spikes to increased traffic congestion to economic downturns. Public ...

Using ‘flex funds’: One of the quickest ways to find money may be to redirect the state’s federal highway funds to public ...

The CTA, Metra and Pace are facing an impending budget gap when federal COVID-19 relief funding runs out next year. Transit ...

Democratic state Rep. Eva-Dina Delgado of Chicago, who is sponsoring the MMA bill, countered that “for a long time it has been city versus suburbs. We have to change our mindset around that, as ...

Without additional funding, regional transit agencies will be forced to cut services by 40 percent. The Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) of Northern Illinois, which serves the Chicago metro ...

The Regional Transportation Authority's Board of Directors meeting for the first time since releasing a bleak report last ...

Evanston may lose all but one CTA bus route, evening and weekend service on all Pace bus routes and some Union Pacific North ...