Establishment of the Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA) will significantly reform the structure and functions of the current system. MPC is actively engaged in ensuring its successful implementation.
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The City of Chicago is building bus rapid transit (BRT) in the Loop in 2015, and planning BRT on several other corridors. The plan published in 2013 for BRT on Ashland Avenue would meet international “gold” standards and serve one out of every ten Chicagoans along this important north-south route running from Irving Park Road to 95th... Read more »
View Bus Rapid Transit: Ashland BRT Corridor Mapping Tool project
In early 2018, the Metropolitan Planning Council launched #BustedCommute, a social media campaign inviting people to document their first-hand encounters with Illinois’ crumbling transportation infrastructure. From highways, buses, trains and sidewalks, from underneath bridges and flooded El stations, images started rolling in. The #BustedCommute campaign was featured on WGN-TV with Amy... Read more »
View Sustainable Revenue for Transportation: Busted Commute project
MPC and Chicago-area decision-makers are fundamentally rethinking how we invest in infrastructure, from deploying new financing tools to prioritizing regional investments and plans that will put us back on the path to growth.
View Innovative Infrastructure Delivery: expanding options for infrastructure project
