Daily Herald2dOpinion
Daily Herald opinion: Yes, the clock is ticking: Lawmakers, don’t leave transit agencies, public waiting to last minute for budget answers
Metra Executive Director Jim Derwinski's grim warning last week to the transit agency's board of directors was in many ways a ...
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RTA proposes more bus and train service, fare hikes and stronger central agency as lawmakers prepare to debate future of transit
This is the vision for the future of transit set to be outlined Wednesday by Regional Transportation Authority Chairman Kirk ... Dillard, in an interview with the Tribune, made the case that the ...
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RTA seeks expanded authority over CTA, Metra, Pace to remedy transit funding crisis
Some lawmakers want to consolidate the Chicago area’s four public transit agencies this year in exchange for more state money to steer the agencies away from an impending fiscal cliff.
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City Club of Chicago: RTA Chairman Kirk Dillard
Regional Transportation Authority City Club event description: Join Kirk Dillard, Chairman of the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA), as ...
Crain's Chicago Business13dOpinion
Opinion: Money alone won't resolve the region's transit crisis
State legislators should understand that this is not a moment for tinkering around the edges. Any increase in transit funding ...
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Debate over the future of CTA, Metra, Pace, RTA to heat up in Springfield this year
RTA Chair Kirk Dillard has instead called for a stronger version of the RTA, writing in a mid-December letter to the Tribune that it could “act as an empowered regional coordinating agency.” ...