Public transit agencies say they’ll be able to rehabilitate stations, buy new rail cars and make other improvements with money from the state of Illinois.
CHICAGO (AP) — Public transit agencies say they’ll be able to rehabilitate stations, buy new rail cars and make other improvements with money from the state of Illinois. The agencies are sharing about $500 million from Illinois’ capital construction program. Gov. Pat Quinn announced the funding Thursday at a Chicago Transit Authority station on Chicago’s South Side. The governor’s office says most of the money will go to Chicago-area mass transit agencies but transit agencies outside the metropolitan area will get about $58 million. Quinn says the improvement projects will create local jobs, but that didn’t quiet a small group of hecklers who tried to interrupt Quinn’s speech. The fewer than a dozen protesters yelled that they wanted jobs and urged people to dump Quinn in the November election. The protesters say they weren’t sent there by another political campaign. Copyright 2010 The Associated Press.
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