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The Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) is the financial and oversight body for the three transit agencies in northeastern Illinois; the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), Metra, and Pace, which are called Service Boards in the RTA Act. RTA serves Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will counties.
Website. transitchicago.com. The Chicago Transit Authority ( CTA) is the operator of mass transit in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and some of its suburbs, including the trains of the Chicago "L" and CTA bus service. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 279,146,200, or about 908,400 per weekday as of the fourth quarter of 2023.
Metra is the descendant of numerous commuter rail services dating to the 1850s. The present system dates to 1974, when the Illinois General Assembly established the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) to consolidate all public transit operations in the Chicago area, including commuter rail.
FOX 32 News. April 29, 2024 at 5:29 PM. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois lawmakers were pushing this week for the consolidation of four transit agencies into a single entity. A bill was slated for ...
The Metra Electric District is an electrified commuter rail line owned and operated by Metra which connects Millennium Station (formerly Randolph Street Station), in downtown Chicago, with the city's southern suburbs.
(Berwyn, IL) – A south suburban transit agency is facing extinction by legislation moving through the Illinois General Assembly. The measure, House Bill 2413 sponsored by State Rep.
Kenilworth Kicks Off Regional Transportation Authority Planning Project - Wilmette-Kenilworth, IL - The village received a $75,000 grant to provide a foundation for future infrastructure planning ...
Mass transit in much of the Chicago metropolitan area is managed through the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA), which was installed by a referendum in 1974. The RTA provides transportation services through the funding of three subordinate agencies: the Chicago Transit Authority, Metra, and Pace.
The newest Metra station in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago opened on May 20, 2024. In 1974, the Regional Transit Authority (RTA) was created to provide stability in the commuter rail system, as most private commuter companies in the area were beginning to fail. [4]
Pace is the suburban bus and regional paratransit division of the Regional Transportation Authority serving the Chicago metropolitan area. It was created in 1983 by the RTA Act, which established the formula that provides funding to the CTA , Metra , and Pace.