Transit task force: Forget RTA . . . and CTA, Metra, Pace boards

From Crains Daily Email: Transit task force: Forget RTA . . . and CTA, Metra, Pace boards

A Public Transit Task Force appointed by Gov. Pat Quinn says we should dump the Regional Transportation Authority and the boards of the CTA, Metra and Pace in favor of a new superagency in charge of policy and funding. Here are stories from the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times.

What do you think?

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Permalink Reply by S on March 18, 2014 at 5:07am

If it leads to better coordination and less patronage, I'm all for it.

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Permalink Reply by Tricolor on March 18, 2014 at 5:41am

Fewer people getting paid six figures to sit around in fancy suits sounds good to me. If we're stuck with Ventra the least it can do is work across all our transit options.

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Permalink Reply by Eric R on March 18, 2014 at 11:04am

If Chicagoland is guaranteed more voting power than downstate, with board members not hand picked by the auto/ road industry then it could work in favor of progressive transit projects. Especially if the new structure encourages collaboration between agencies ... but then I think about the Illiana and giving IDOT more control sounds terrifying for someone that relies on "alternative" forms of transportation.

Streetsblog has a nice write up on this.

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Permalink Reply by We all have an inner Beast... on March 18, 2014 at 3:30pm

I wholeheartedly agree !

Watched something on the news about how many board members each one of those has, and that most of them either do not live in Chicago or even use public transportation.

Too many chiefs, not enough indians.

Let some of the suits go and hire more worker-bees.

Just my 2 cents.