Group 3: Infrastructure Investment will focus on the balance between financial efficiency and transit system coverage to achieve a transit system that is financially stable and effective in connecting people to opportunity. This group will work toward goals, strategies, and performance measures to address two plan outcomes including

• A transit system that is financially stable (How do we find new balance in funding so that the transit system can continue to operate while also remaining affordable for riders?)

• A region that is connected (How can we connect people and communities to more opportunities to improve their quality of life?)

Recommendation Memo

The Financial Responsibility Working Group Recommendation Memo is available for comment until July 29, 2022. Please return all comments to your group facilitator.

• Download a PDF to comment or

• Comment via the Google Doc

Meeting materials

Meeting 6 (June 30)

• Meeting summary

• Powerpoint slides

• Draft Goals and Strategies for all Working Groups

• TAKE A SURVEY: Before the next meeting share your level of support for the draft strategies

• Updated Briefing Book

Meeting 5 (June 16)

• Meeting summary

• Powerpoint slides

• CMAP Presentation

• Refined strategy spreadsheet for discussion

Meeting 4 (June 2)

• Meeting summary

• Powerpoint slides

• Watch a recorded presentation from Doug Anderson, RTA Manager of Operating Budgets and Analysis, about the 10-Year Financial Plan being developed as part of the next Regional Transit Strategic Plan

• Draft goals for all three working groups

• Draft Strategy Google Documents (available for comment through the weekend)

  • Breakout Group A

  • Breakout Group B

  • Breakout Group C

Meeting 3 (May 19)

• Meeting summary

• Refined Draft Goals

• Powerpoint slides

Meeting 2 (May 5)

• Meeting summary

• Powerpoint slides

• Draft goal statements

• Updated Briefing Book (includes a new section called "Follow up items from Meeting #1" on Page 3 with answers to questions we were asked at the first meeting)

Meeting 1 (April 21)

• Meeting summary

• Powerpoint slides

Defining the Plan Principles

Six months of public engagement and stakeholder discussions have informed a vision, principles, and six desired outcomes for the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA)’s next regional transit strategic plan. Defining the principles of Equity, Stewardship and Committed to Change is critical to guiding the discussions, developing strategies, and ultimately achieving the outcomes. The RTA has developed a Principle Discussion Tool with definitions and key questions that will be used to help evaluate ideas proposed during the working groups.

Membership

Learn more about being a member of the RTA Working Groups in the other working groups in the Stakeholder Participant Guide. Members of this group include:

• Bill Lachman, RTA (Group Facilitator)

• Peter Kersten, RTA (Group Facilitator)

• Chris Groven, RTA Board of Directors

• Jamie Gathing, RTA Board of Directors

• Bea Reyna-Hickey, RTA

• Jeremy LaMarche, RTA

• Sonali Tandon, CTA

• Lisa Smith, CTA

• Maulik Vaishnav, CTA

• Alan M. Ochab, Metra

• Brian Stepp, Metra

• Melanie Castle, Pace

• Erik Llewellyn, Pace

• Daniel Comeaux, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning

• Elizabeth Ginsberg, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning

• Henry Guerrerio, Illinois Tollway

• Jacky Grimshaw, Center for Neighborhood Technology

• Laura Salzman, Access Living

• Jesse Elam, Cook County

• Scott Hennings, McHenry County

• Kristi DeLaurentiis, South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association (SSMMA)

• Vignesh Krishnamurthy, Chicago Department of Transportation

• Paula Worthington, University of Chicago

• Tom Kotarac, Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago

• Brad Tietz, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce

• Laura Calderon, Illinois Public Transit Association

• Judy Shanley, EasterSeals, National Center for Mobility Management

• Andrea Reed, Roseland Chamber/Coalition for Modern Metra Electric

• Kate Lowe, University of Illinois-Chicago

• Kevin Brubaker, Environmental Law & Policy Center of the Midwest

• Rudy Faust, Shared-Use Mobility Center

• Rebecca Mason, Transportation for Illinois Coalition

• Brad Tietz, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce