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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Claudia Morell | WBEZ

CTA, Metra tout new, bigger budgets but warn of troubles down the road

(Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

The Chicago Transit Authority’s new $1.9 billion budget will prioritize staffing and improved service in the hopes of getting the agency back on track, President Dorval Carter told a regional transit board Thursday.

Carter and his team were presenting CTA’s 2024 budget before the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) board around the same time a Yellow Line train crashed into railroad equipment and injured dozens of riders. Thursday’s crash is under investigation.

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