The Regional Transportation Authority, which oversees CTA, Pace and Metra, anticipates losing $1 billion this year. With revenue dropping to almost nothing in recent weeks and anticipated declines going forward, Metra and Chicago’s other mass transit systems face difficult decisions to cut costs or find new ways to pay the bills.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Really difficult to social distance on crowded train cars with more than 50 people. Is Metra crowding a phase 5 issue? Not until there is a cure?
Sounds like the Democrats are planning to tax the hell out of somebody for something nobody uses.