Your legislator needs to hear that YOU want them to fix and fund public transit in a special session NOW.
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The longer the Illinois General Assembly waits to secure funding for transit, the closer Metra, Pace, and CTA get to cutting service by 40% – absolutely decimating public transit for the entire Northeastern Illinois region. This is why we're demanding state legislators call a special session this summer to get the job done NOW to avoid massive cuts, mind-boggling traffic, and economic disaster.
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Public transit in Northeastern Illinois is in crisis.
We have been fighting alongside many of you for months to win key reforms to make our transit systems work better as well as make it clear to our legislators that they had the duty to fully fund transit and prevent it from falling off a fiscal cliff.
But this spring session, the Illinois General Assembly let dysfunction rule and ran out the clock without doing their job.
So what does this mean? CTA, Pace, and Metra will now begin planning 40% service cuts for their systems – because they legally cannot plan service based on funding they aren’t certain to have. In the coming weeks, you will start seeing public meetings about cuts, and maps outlining what lines and bus routes will be eliminated. And transit workers will start learning about layoffs.
This fight is not over, and we need you to fight for a summer session with us.
Later this year, Federal COVID relief funds for transit agencies are set to expire, leaving CTA, Pace and Metra facing a $770 million fiscal cliff. This would mean 40% service cuts across the board.
CTA could be forced to eliminate 74 entire bus routes, Metra would have to cut all early morning and late evening service and only come hourly during rush hour, and Pace would be forced to eliminate all weekend service and move to 30 and 60 minute waits.