Kudos to legislative sponsors and leaders, Gov. JB Pritzker and civic, environmental and labor leaders for their hard work passing landmark transit legislation. The legislative battle focused on how to allocate the board seats for the new Northern Illinois Transit Authority, allocating responsibilities between NITA and the CTA, Metra and Pace service boards, and who should pay how much to sufficiently fund a modern public transit system.

Now, the focus must shift to implementation: how to make our transit system work better and more efficiently. How to attract more riders back to a transit system that is safer, affordable and accessible. How to make the buses and trains run on time.

Let’s focus on those goals now that the dust has settled in Springfield. That’s what people want our trans

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