Transit

CHICAGO — Chicago-area public transportation agencies won’t need to raise fares, cut routes or lay off workers next year after state lawmakers approved a bill overhauling public transit, the head of the Regional Transportation Authority said Thursday. The RTA held…

CHICAGO — State lawmakers passed a $1.5 billion funding package early Friday to avoid massive service cuts and layoffs at the CTA, Metra and Pace. The Regional Transportation Authority — which oversees the three transit agencies — had been staring…

The unseasonably chilly, gloomy weather today in Chicago makes me think of the impending autumn, which brings to mind Chicagoland’s looming transit fiscal cliff. Now, the weather is nothing to panic about – we’ve still got more than a month…