RTA Access to Transit Program Awarded Funding to Improve Bike and Pedestrian Connections to Transit
The RTA Access to Transit program has received funding from the Federal Transit Administration through the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) progr...
November 5, 2019
Progress on the Regional Transit Strategic Plan
The RTA staff presented the 2019 Strategic Plan Progress Report during February’s RTA Board meeting. This progress report outlines strides made toward the vi...
March 27, 2019
RTA Awards Nine Community Planning Projects
The RTA is announcing the award of nine projects through its Community Planning program. These projects can transform underutilized areas around transit asse...
March 22, 2019
Our Transit System Continues To Perform Well According to Peer Reports
Do you ever wonder how the Chicago regional transit agencies perform in comparison to other large cities in America? According to the 2017 Regional Peer Revi...
March 7, 2019
RTA and Mundelein Work Together to Study Metra’s North Central Line
The RTA announced a new study to explore possible funding sources to support ridership growth along Metra’s North Central Service (NCS) corridor. In 2017, th...
January 23, 2019
Pace and RTA Wrap up Central Harlem Avenue Corridor Plan
Pace Suburban Bus, in partnership with the RTA, has completed the Central Harlem Avenue Corridor Study, a long-range plan to improve pedestrian and transit a...
January 16, 2019
RTA Signage Program Works to Make Transit Easier
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December 21, 2018
City of Chicago and RTA Working Together to Foster Development and Access to Transit
Today the RTA joined the City of Chicago to announce progress on two major projects in our region. The first is the City’s Planning Commission adoption today...
December 20, 2018
Tell us What you Think of Transit!
The RTA is asking transit riders to participate in a short survey to help the transit agencies better understand rider opinions of how we’re doing like, “Wou...
October 18, 2018
Design by Transit: The 2018 Community Planning Program Implementation Report
This month we continue celebrating the 20th anniversary of the RTA’s Community Planning program by reporting on recent implementation efforts that advanced t...
September 5, 2018
Transit and Parking Meet in Evanston
By Brian Hacker, AICP To continue our conversation about the benefits of the RTA’s Community Planning program and celebrate its 20th anniversary, I want to ...
July 27, 2018
Invest in Transit: What our future could hold
Do you remember those “choose your own adventure” books where you made a choice for the main character and flipped to a certain page to learn of his or her f...
June 29, 2018
