Editorial: RTA claims it needs new money from taxpayers. But where are the big new ideas?

The Regional Transit Authority, which oversees the finances of the CTA, Metra and Pace, sounds an all-too-familiar alarm in its new report, "Transit Is the Answer."Fresh taxpayer cash is urgently needed, it claims, or trains and buses will grind to a halt."There is a major transit funding crisis looming," intones a report that lurches back and forth between doom and gloom ("an existential crisis") and optimism ("transit is ready").

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