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MPC Senior Director Comments on Rival Plans for Chicago Transit

‘Silos’ and ‘steamrollers’: Rival plans to save Metra, Pace and the CTA go under the microscope

By Marni Pyke, Daily Herald
March 11, 2025

Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC) Senior Director Audrey Wennink commented on Chicago’s transit agency governance in this Daily Herald article which reported on two rival reform proposals for public transit that were aired during a recent Senate Transportation Committee hearing.

Wennink noted in part, “With 47 appointees to four separate transit agencies, riders often don’t know who’s in charge.”

Read the full article here