Nashville just handed you a case study in how cities weigh tech hype against transit reality. By rejecting Elon Musk’s ...

The Chicago Transit Authority has two weeks to submit a new safety plan to the Federal Transit Administration, or risk losing ...

Nashville’s Metro Council voted 20-15 to formally oppose the Boring Company’s Music City Loop, a proposed 13-mile underground tunnel ...

As the next surface transportation reauthorization bill takes form in Congress, the transit sector is making a case for its ...

Assistant Opinion Editor George Koutrouvelis tells the history of the Yellow Line "L" train and reflects on his experience ...

Assigning costs that distribute the tax load fairly among all the vehicle types and beneficiaries of a well-maintained system of roads and highways is a numbers game that can easily be complicated to ...

With new ownership and a new editor- in-chief, the Chicago Reader is rolling out its second issue as a monthly print publication on March 4, 2026.

As the CTA experiences a record high in violent attacks, Trump is threatening to cut $50 million in federal grant funding for ...

In Dallas City, a small town in western Illinois along the Mississippi River, Mayor Kevin Six says residents have grown ...

A new state transit law redirects revenue from the state’s motor fuel tax and interest from the Road Fund — funding ...

The trend is bad news for the Chicago Transit Authority and its interim leader Nora Leerhsen, who points to positive trends on the transit system as she tries to appease the federal government.

On the Daily Gist, reporter John Pletz sketched out the big ideas reformers are pushing, from modest governance changes to ...