Daily Herald9d
Daily Herald opinion: Yes, the clock is ticking: Lawmakers, don’t leave transit agencies, public waiting to last minute for budget answers
Metra Executive Director Jim Derwinski's grim warning last week to the transit agency's board of directors was in many ways a natural follow-up to RTA Chairman Kirk Dillard's Jan. 15 speech to the ...
WGN Radio21d
City Club of Chicago: RTA Chairman Kirk Dillard
Join Kirk Dillard, Chairman of the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA), as he shares the agency’s vision for a fully funded, seamless, and accountable transit system that serves all riders with ...
Chicago Sun-Times21d
Some transit agencies signal support of RTA's plan for increased authority as alternate to merger
Metra and Pace said they generally support a strengthened RTA after Chairman Kirk Dillard laid out a vision Wednesday that requires $1.5 billion in additional state money to run many more trains ...
Chicago Sun-Times21d
RTA seeks expanded authority over CTA, Metra, Pace to remedy transit funding crisis
Some lawmakers want to consolidate the Chicago area’s four public transit agencies this year in exchange for more state money to steer the agencies away from an impending fiscal cliff.
WBEZ21d
RTA seeks expanded authority over CTA, Metra, Pace as solution to transit ‘fiscal cliff’
RTA Chairman Kirk Dillard is asking state lawmakers to grant the RTA substantially more authority to govern fares, service and investments in major projects. According to the plan, which Dillard ...
Daily Herald22d
Making its move: RTA proposes universal fares, more trains, cost cuts to counter merger plan
“We want to create a seamless integrated system for our region that’s been long overdue,” RTA Chair Kirk Dillard told the Daily Herald in an exclusive interview Monday. The “Transforming ...
Yahoo News22d
RTA proposes more bus and train service, fare hikes and stronger central agency as lawmakers prepare to debate future of transit
Buses that can bypass traffic. This is the vision for the future of transit set to be outlined Wednesday by Regional Transportation Authority Chairman Kirk Dillard at a lunch for the city’s business ...
Crain's Chicago Business19d
Opinion: Money alone won't resolve the region's transit crisis
RTA Board Chair Kirk Dillard spoke to the City Club about the need for us to change the way we operate, fund, and govern mass transit. His comments and those included in Crain’s recent ...
Chicago Tribune20d
David Greising: Taxpayers deserve to know just how much governments fattened themselves on federal COVID-19 money
The Chicago area’s four major transit agencies face a fiscal cliff of $730 million next year, when federal COVID-19 relief funds run dry, Regional Transit Authority Chairman Kirk Dillard warned ...
New York Post25d
Kirk Herbstreit adds Arch Manning twist to critique of Steve Sarkisian’s disastrous Texas play call
Kirk Herbstreit said he wasn’t second-guessing Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian about one fourth-quarter play call, but it sure sounded like it. And the ESPN analyst wasn’t alone after the ...
The Daily Northwestern14d
As transit faces uncertain future, Evanston advocates question fixes
As an alternative, the RTA, led by Chairman Kirk Dillard, proposed a plan Jan. 15 that would strengthen its oversight over the other three agencies. Weinberg Instruction Prof. Ian Savage ...