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Their wordsEven so, if American cities are serious about moving people into transit, reducing transportation-related greenhouse-gas emissions, and providing an alternative to car-dependence at the metropolitan scale, regional rail is a necessary investment.
Their wordsIt is the only mechanism available to provide fast, frequent, reliable, and long-distance transportation for large numbers of people.
Their wordsthe Chicago case should remind us that an institutional configuration that separates control of transit agencies in the same metropolitan area to different political actors can produce negative outcomes for the region as a whole.
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