The Regional Transit Authority passed its 2010 budget today -- a move that makes layoffs next year at the Chicago Transit Authority all but a certainty.
The RTA adopted a $1.3 billion budget that covers operations at the CTA, Metra, Pace and Pace paratransit services.
While the authority is forecasting a boost in 2010 sales tax revenue of 1.5 percent, the immediate future looks bleak to the RTA’s board of directors. Read more...
“Unscheduled bunching” so far in 2009 is down 40 percent from 2007, according to the mid-November-dated report, distributed at the Regional Transit Authority's Americans with Disabilities Act Advisory Committee meeting earlier this month.
Bunching averaged 3.9 percent in 2007, but in 2009’s numbers through September, only 2.3 percent of all buses have been bunched. Read more...
The proposal is still taking shape, but its goal is to reconstruct the Red and Purple lines’ bridges, tracks and stations.
Those are nine miles of heavily used “L” stations and tracks, and its bridges are deteriorated and costly to maintain, officials say. Read more...
That number is a preview of a report that the RTA will release early next year that will assess the state of bridges, train tracks, buses and more at Metra, Pace and the Chicago Transit Authority.
The grade of “past its useful life,” officials insist, does not mean the structures are unsafe. Rather, they maintain, it means that the assets have reached the point where the repair they need is no longer cost-effective. Read more...
The Regional Transit Authority honored one of their own at their monthly meeting this morning: former RTA board member and Chicago School Board President Michael Scott.
Scott's body was found on the banks of the Chicago River near the Merchandise Mart earlier this week.
Before proceeding with business, board member Jim Reilly called for a moment of silence in Scott's honor. Read more...
