By Marni Pyke, Chicago Daily Herald; September 24, 2019
Metra’s 280,000 daily riders deserve to be on an equal footing with freight trains and Amtrak, the agency’s CEO testified to a congressional committee Tuesday.
Transit passengers across the nation currently play second fiddle to the other entities, Metra chief Jim Derwinski told members of the U.S. House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.