CNT Testifies about Transit Performance
CNT’s Jacky Grimshaw testified last week before the Transit Management and Performance Subcommittee of the Illinois General Assembly’s Committee on Mass Transit.
The subcommittee is working to differentiate performance data and measures that will be useful to various transit stakeholders: funders, including the federal government; the governing boards; and the general public. Jacky argued for a different set of performance measures and level of accountability for each of the stakeholders. For example, the riding public might like transit agencies held accountable to one set of measures — Do the trains and buses run on time? Are stations safe? Are they clean? — while the the federal government might need a different set of measures.
The subcommittee is planning to make recommendations for performance standards and accountability/transparency measures that should be coupled with any additional operations and capital funding the transit agencies receive.
