Connections Blog

In March, the RTA, CTA, Metra, and Pace detailed what 40% service cuts would look like if the Illinois legislature does not identify a funding solution for t...

Public transit in the Chicago region has been underfunded for decades and the crisis we face today is not the first that has challenged the system. The curre...

Every year, the RTA’s Local Planning department assists local governments throughout northeastern Illinois on projects that strengthen the region’s transit s...

In the late fall of 2024, RTA’s Community Planning program in partnership with the Urban Land Institute supported two Development Dialogues held in Round Lak...

As conversations on transit funding and reform continue in Springfield ahead of the fiscal cliff, local elected officials across the region have raised their...

Earlier this year, the RTA released Transforming Transit, a vision for the regional transit system with $1.5 billion in annual operating funding supported by...

Beginning in 2026, Chicago’s regional transit system will face a projected $770 million annual budget gap. At nearly 20% of the annual operating budget, this...

In January, the RTA published a new Transit-Friendly Communities Guide – a resource with strategies and techniques that local decision-makers, the developmen...

Last month, the RTA published its Transit-Friendly Communities Guide, a roadmap to creating equitable neighborhoods across the Chicago region that are safe a...

Nearly 200 riders, advocates, and other stakeholders met virtually with the RTA on February 11 for the sixth quarterly Transit is the Answer Coalition meetin...

An RTA Community Planning project kicked off in late 2023 as a crucial step in bringing Pace Pulse service to Chicago’s south suburbs. The Far South Halsted ...

RTA is proposing a historic restructuring of the region’s transit governance to maximize the impact of new operating funding and ensure all riders experience...