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Chicago Public Transit In Limbo After State Lawmakers Fail To Fill Nearly $1 Billion Budget Gap
State lawmakers missed a deadline Saturday to fill a $770 million budget gap being faced by the Regional Transportation ...
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Drama in Chicago and Philadelphia: The Transit Fiscal Cliff Has Arrived
With emergency federal aid drying up and ridership still below pre-pandemic levels, transit agencies in Chicago and ...
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Transit Briefs: Brightline, CTA
Brightline, Florida’s private-sector passenger railroad, launches a partnership with JetBlue. Also, Chicago Transit Authority ...
Chicago transit crisis: As legislative session ends, funding crisis threatens massive service cuts and layoffs
A funding crisis, the result of the refusal of Democrats and Republicans to tax the wealthy, threatens catastrophic service ...
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Illinois could still act to avoid Chicago-area transit cuts
Chicago-area transit agencies will begin planning for massive service cuts in the wake of the legislature’s failure to ...
CTA faces massive cuts as Illinois budget ignores looming $770M shortfall, leaving transit users concerned
Illinois lawmakers wrapped up the spring session without allocating any funding for the Chicago Transit Authority in their ...
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RTA warns of how drastic service cuts would be to CTA, Metra, Pace without bailout from state
At an RTA board meeting Thursday, two maps were shown ... the funding that we're talking about," said acting Chicago Transit Authority President Nora Leerhsen. "Of our eight rail lines, four ...