The partnership formalizes the relationship as the two companies begin to deploy several electric bus customer projects, with the earliest expected to launch this year.
According to the report, CTA, Pace, and Metra ranked in the top half of their peer groups for 14 of the 16 measures reviewed and in the top three for seven of those measures.
The total project cost included in the new plan remains at $8.165 billion for capital costs exclusive of finance charges, with full revenue service scheduled for December 2025.
The two sessions at BusCon 2017 in Indianapolis Sept. 11 to 13, which are open to all bus operators, will discuss the capital cost of contracting and the federal governments Data Q system.
The capital program calls for continued investment in the state’s transit infrastructure to maintain a continued state-of-good-repair and provide reliable transit service.
Capital funding will be used largely for rolling stock renewal and other projects aimed at taking care of the existing system.
The total equals approximately one year of the transit system’s capital budget.
Opponents of the policy, which only allows federal transit dollars to be used for capital costs when the population threshold is met, will force some communities to reduce service by 15 to 30 percent.
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