Lawmakers Offer 2 Incomplete Pitches for Public Transit and Funding Reform – Capitol News IL

Lawmakers offer 2 incomplete pitches for public transit and funding reform – Capitol News IL

Under House Bill 3438 originating in the Senate, NITA and the state would impose new taxes in northern Illinois, higher tolls on highways, fees on rideshare services and a new tax on electric vehicle charging. Senate Bill 2111 originating in the House does not address funding.

Capitol Fa - Your Illinois News Radar » Senate unveils transit funding proposal, but DuPage County’s Conroy is a hard ‘no’ on much of it (Updated: Labor opposes funding proposals)CapitolFax.com

* Subscribers were briefed this morning on Sen. Ram Villivalam’s transit bill, which, unlike the House bill, included revenue sources. Crain’s Chicago Business… Villivalam’s bill includes a 10% tax on rideshare trips originating from or ending in Chicago, Cook County and the five collar counties that make up the transit corridor. The city’s rideshare [...]

Time is running out! Tell Gov. Pritzker: Illinois needs $1.5B for transit to keep our communities thriving

With a May 31 deadline looming, leaders in Springfield are working down to the wire to address the region’s transit funding and operations crisis. If new funding is not approved by the end of the legislative session, transit agencies will be forced to begin to plan for devastating cuts in bus and train service. After years of degrading service and conditions, elected leaders and riders have demanded reforms to improve the safety, reliability, an…

Lawmakers offer 2 incomplete pitches for public transit and funding reform

Andrew Adams Ben Szalinski Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD — With two days left in the legislative session, lawmakers in Springfield announced a pair of plans for how to reform Chicagoland transit agencies after two years of debate, one of which would come with a spate of new taxes. The proposals give new power to the agency that oversees the Chicago Transit Authority, Metra commuter rail and Pace Suburban Bus. The newly renamed Northern Illin…