The commuter rail agency is seeking $230 million from the federal Railroad Rehabilitation & Improvement Financing program to ...
Commuter operator Metra says it is considering the rarely used option of outside financing to address its increasingly urgent ...
Metra may leverage low-interest federal loans to replace or repair some of its oldest bridges. At a Wednesday meeting, board ...
Empire Builder trains scheduled to leave Union Station for Seattle at 11:05 a.m. and 3:05 p.m. on Monday have been canceled, ...
Chicago's transit agency leaders spent the last year rejecting the idea of consolidation in exchange for more funding. The ...
The clock is ticking for transit agencies facing a crater-sized budget hole, Metra Executive Director Jim Derwinski warned at ...
Chicago's Regional Transportation Authority released a plan calling for $1.5 billion in operating funding from state and ...
The agency owns 446 bridges, of which 80 percent of them are at least more than 75 years old and have surpassed their functional lifespan and are increasingly expensive to ...
An outbound Union Pacific Northwest Line train hit a car just before 4 p.m. near the Norwood Park station near the ...
Lorene Wilson, a 69-year-old Chicagoan, was killed. Bruscato questions the safety of the intersection, saying it is the same ...
The Chicago area’s four transit agencies are staring down a budget gap that could lead to massive service cuts and fare hikes ...
Video obtained by FOX 32 Chicago showed flames coming from a Metra train Monday evening, causing significant delays.