President Donald Trump's administration is threatening to pull federal funding for public transportation in Chicago unless ...

The Regional Transportation Authority’s new ad campaign has people fuming. There’s a lot to criticize about transit management. We think the RTA is missing the mark on the scale of reforms needed to ...

The Chicago area's Regional Transporation Authority is calling for $1.5 billion in funding from state and local sources, including higher local sales taxes and rider fares. With Chicago-area transit ...

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Chicago-area public transportation agencies won’t need to raise fares, cut routes or lay off workers next year after state lawmakers approved a bill overhauling public transit, the head of the ...

Illinois’ state legislature passed a bill that expands funding for transit in the Chicago area and beyond. Chicago’s transit agencies were facing potential layoffs and service cuts amid a financial ...

I read with interest the front-page Tribune story on a delegation of Chicago legislators and advocates traveling to Germany to learn about its public transit systems (“Illinois environment and labor ...

Chicago transit officials are advocating for a $1.5 billion annual funding package to help keep one of the country’s largest transportation systems afloat as it stares down a steep financial cliff in ...

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I recently took the train to a Chicago Bears game. It was cheap, fast, safe and a genuinely good experience. The only issue? I was in London, where reliable public transportation makes it easy to get ...

A city bus running along Dodge Avenue every Sunday is a new sight for Evanston residents, and the addition is just one of the Regional Transportation Authority’s recent additions to the city’s public ...

A major conference in Chicago this week was focused on finding sustainable solutions to some of the nation's biggest environmental problems, and one major concern was transportation. Emissions from ...