The Regional Transportation Authority on Tuesday said it is no longer requiring the CTA, Metra and Pace to implement a 10% fare increases next year, following the passage last week of a historic transit funding package in the General Assembly.

The RTA, which must approve each of the agencies’ budgets this month, had insisted they each include the fare hike — even if state lawmakers approved a $1.5 billion spending package.

But lawmakers did just that, passing a bill that in the wee hours of Halloween at the end of the fall veto session. Gov. JB Pritzker says he plans to sign it.

The transit bill prohibits fare hikes for the first year after the expected-to-be law goes into effect on June 1.

That caveat meant the RTA’s planned Feb. 1 fare increases could still go live. And it created so

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