Daily Herald, Arlington Heights, IL 8/22:
Riders question scaled-back Metra plan
They're doing what?
Metra's announcement the railroad is scaling back its $2.4 billion capital plan that promised new railcars and locomotives has caught riders off-guard.
Back in 2015, fares shot up by 10.8 percent on average, and a 2 percent average increase followed this year. In exchange for charging more, Metra assured riders they would see improvements to increase efficiency, including 367 new railcars, with 106 to be delivered during 2018 and 2019.
But on Aug. 9, agency leaders said they needed to "rethink" the capital plan, blaming the state for suspending a $300 million payment they had counted on.
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