With no revenue resolution yet in sight, the service agencies — the CTA, Metra and Pace — need to begin contingency planning ...

State not responsible for fixing transit crisis alone,” (June 17) rightly observes that transit funding is a regional issue.

“Talks and planning on large budget cuts now will have to begin at CTA, Metra and Pace, and RTA hearings as required by federal law,” RTA Chair Kirk Dillard said Sunday.

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RTA officials have estimated 40% service cuts ... “We think there’s probably a billion dollars for mass transit in there,” RTA Board Chairman Kirk Dillard said shortly after the Senate ...

There was absolutely no consensus on the other piece of the bill: how to raise up to $1.5 billion a year that the RTA says is needed to avoid 40% service cuts and make some modest improvements.

Hinsdale’s Kirk Dillard has been elected to a third five-year term as chairman of the Regional Transportation Authority Board of Directors. The board voted June 20 to keep Dillard, who has served as ...

“We are grateful for the Senate focusing on the fiscal cliff, however, as proposed, the new revenue included in (Thursday’s) Senate bill fails to address the region’s $771 million transit operating ...

According to RTA spokesperson Tina Fassett Smith in a statement, those budgets “by law must only include funding we are confident the system will receive in 2026.” “We think there’s probably a billion ...

“Talks and planning on large budget cuts now will have to begin at CTA, Metra and Pace, and RTA hearings as required by federal law,” RTA Chair Kirk Dillard said Sunday. That includes a possible 40% ...

Part of the problem, said Kirk Dillard, a former state senator who is chair of the RTA board, is that even if the legislature approves new funding sources, it will take time for that money to reach ...