Evanston may lose all but one CTA bus route, evening and weekend service on all Pace bus routes, and some Union Pacific North Metra Line service if the state doesn’t come through with the funding to keep Chicago-area transit agencies from going off the fiscal cliff.
Those are the major takeaways from the presentations the three agencies gave to the Regional Transportation Authority Board of Directors on March 27. RTA, which has the final say over the groups’ budgets, previewed the doomsday plans in a March 21 press release.
The presentation March 27 shared some details on how the cuts might affect Chicago and the suburbs. The plans are not final and would need to go through the Title VI analysis to make sure the cuts would not disproportionately impact any communities. And all transit officials hope that Illinois General Assembly will come through with funding to make the discussion irrelevant…