Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Transit Future

One Chart Explains All the Chicagoland Transit Reform Proposals

By Steven Vance | Apr 11, 2014 | 10 Comments

Several different proposals to fund and govern Chicagoland’s transit system have recently been floated by various area politicians and interest groups. Streetsblog has created this handy chart to compare each of the proposals to one another, and to how the system currently works. Click to open the chart in a new window. The chart compares […]

CNT and Active Trans Launch “Transit Future” Funding Campaign

By John Greenfield | Apr 4, 2014 | 47 Comments

On Monday, Governor Quinn’s Northeast Illinois Public Transit Taskforce released its final report, underscoring the need for better funding for regional transit. Yesterday, the Center for Neighborhood Technology and the Active Transportation Alliance launched a new campaign, dubbed “Transit Future,” to raise that money via a new Cook County-based revenue stream that would help the […]

Final State Task Force Report Dives Into Transit Reform Details

By Steven Vance | Apr 1, 2014 | 27 Comments

Governor Pat Quinn’s northeastern Illinois task force released its final report [PDF] yesterday, detailing recommendations from its mid-March draft. The task force launched last year, after former Metra CEO Alex Clifford resigned to protest the commuter rail operator’s long-running patronage culture. The task force of transit experts, business and union leaders spends most of the report writing about how […]