Chicago Sun-Times

RTA seeks expanded authority over CTA, Metra, Pace to remedy transit funding crisis

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WBEZ

RTA seeks expanded authority over CTA, Metra, Pace as solution to transit ‘fiscal cliff’

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. In 2026, the ...
Railway Age

Report: RTA Redirects Funds From Metra, Pace to Prevent CTA Service Reductions

Leaders from Illinois’ Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) on Aug. 21 shifted millions of dollars from Metra and Pace “to help forestall 40% Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) service reductions” as ...
Daily Herald

Making its move: RTA proposes universal fares, more trains, cost cuts to counter merger plan

Amid a $770 million budget gap facing Metra, Pace and the CTA, and a proposal to merge the three into a supersized agency, Regional Transportation Authority leaders have issued their own transit ...
Yahoo

RTA officials could transfer $74 million from Metra and Pace to CTA to delay city service cuts

Regional transportation officials may transfer $74 million from Metra and Pace to the CTA in an attempt to delay catastrophic cuts to Chicago’s transit system. On Thursday, Regional Transportation ...