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With Commuters Staying Home, Transit Agencies Try to Reinvent Themselves (nytimes.com)
8 points by resolutebat on June 21, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


This article is disappointing.

It’s mostly about BART and the various conversations on how to save it, with a few other anecdotes about cities cutting routes or experimenting with lower fares.

That’s not exactly reinventing themselves.

The biggest candidate for “reinvention” is the Chicago suburban rail network (Metra), which voted on and approved a change from being “commuter rail” to being “regional transportation” - almost akin to being an Amtrak competitor at the regional level. There are something like 4 different cities outside Metra’s operating zone that are exploring the possibility of getting connected into the network - two of which are in Wisconsin and two in Illinois.





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