Igor Studenkov
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CTA, peer transit agencies urge Biden administration to end local hiring ban
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Reagan-era legislation prohibits transit agencies from favoring local firms and workers for infrastructure projects. Lifting the ban could provide new opportunities.
How COVID-19 impacted has Chicagoland public transportation workers
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, at least 1,874 Chicago area transit workers tested positive for the disease, at least 14 had to be hospitalized and at least 14 passed away.
Metra looks back at 2020 ridership, ticket sales as it plans for the future
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Essential workers, transit-dependent residents, and bicyclists have made up a higher percentage of riders during the pandemic.
Metra is unhappy about the RTA focusing stimulus funds on transit-dependent areas
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The CTA would get $361 million, while Metra would get only $83 million, and Pace would get $22 million for fixed-route bus service, plus $20 million for paratransit.
Residents call for grocery store, environmental upgrades near future 130th Street ‘L’ station
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Residents see the new station as an opportunity to address longtime disinvestment and create job opportunities.
RTA plans to focus federal COVID stimulus funding to transit-dependent areas
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The Regional Transportation Authority is planning to use federal stimulus funding to support transit services to "to the places and people across the region who most need transit" during the pandemic.
Ashland BRT NIMBY Roger Romanelli is fighting IDOT’s plan to relocate the Prairie Path
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Romanelli, who helped kill Chicago's plan for bus rapid transit, is now trying to do the same thing with an Illinois Department of Transportation proposal to relocate a section of the Prairie Path.
Transit Development Districts will help fund TOD along the South Shore Line
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These zones will collect property and income tax revenue to help subsidize infrastructure and development around stations, capitalizing on planned service upgrades.
Transit agencies discuss plans for possible “Armageddon” funding scenario
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“In the previous [2008] doomsday budget, our deficit was in the neighborhood of $100 million,” CTA president Dorval Carter said. “This is Armageddon-type stuff."
CTA online budget hearing was a short, glitchy affair amid uncertain funding future
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Last week's public hearing on the proposed 2021 CTA budget was a sign of the COVID-19 times. It was held entirely online, with sparse attendance, and was plagued by technical glitches.
Regional Transportation Authority prepares for funding doomsday scenario, recovery
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The Regional Transportation Authority is starting to prepare for what will happen if the federal government fails to provide additional aid for transit, and what will happen when the pandemic is over.
Pace 2021 budget reflects the pandemic’s new normal
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If there are three words that can best sum up Pace’s plans for the upcoming year, they are “pandemic status quo.”