Region has failed on transportation, One Region exec says

SCHERERVILLE | Northwest Indiana is no closer to consolidating transportation now than it was years ago.

EDITORIAL: Send RBA's seed money back to RDA

The Northwest Indiana Regional Development Authority planted seed money in the Regional Bus Authority, but regional transportation withered for lack of support by the Lake County Council and others.

Valpo gets bus funding from nearly departed Regional Bus Authority

VALPARAISO | The Regional Bus Authority will cease to exist Dec. 31, but it still has money to give to local transit providers and Valparaiso will receive some of it.

WILLIAM NANGLE: Regional leadership needed for regional bus service

Keep ‘em rollin’, rollin’ ...

GUEST COMMENTARY: Public transportation is necessary part of society

In 2000, the Regional Transportation Authority was formed to build an efficient transportation system for Lake County. With its location near Lake Michigan, the Gary airport, access to commuter trains and a bus system, Lake County should be an unparalleled transportation center.

EDITORIAL: Transportation, health merit renewed focus

Transportation and health are two sectors that merit immediate attention in Northwest Indiana. Both saw the quality of life decline, as reported in the 2012 Quality of Life Indicators Report released Tuesday by One Region.

EDITORIAL: End of funding isn't end of need

It is not difficult to characterize the Regional Bus Authority as an agency in its death throes. The agency's executive director, Tim Brown, is left without an ongoing service to direct because the agency ran out of money.

GUEST COMMENTARY: Small successes add up for RBA

Much of the recent press about the Regional Bus Authority in the last few months has centered on the collapse of the Hammond-based services and the express bus to Chicago.

Defunct Regional Bus Agency still idling

CROWN POINT | The Regional Bus Authority is still driving controversy more than two months after it parked its last bus.

GUEST COMMENTARY: RBA reconsidering mission, goals, objectives

The Northwest Indiana Regional Bus Authority is at a crossroads to determine the future mission, goals and objectives of the agency.

EDITORIAL: RBA infighting is hurting its cause

The Regional Bus Authority was disbanded, then quickly reconstituted. The deck chairs were rearranged on a ship that has already sunk. Nothing else changed.

MARK KIESLING: The RBA — to be or not to be?

Yep. William Shakespeare asked that question about 500 years ago, admittedly in a different context.

GUEST COMMENTARY: Empty-handed after walking to food pantry

The Regional Bus Authority closed all bus operations June 30. But what really happened, and who was really affected? Since the closure, we have received many phone calls, and the staff has talked to quite a few people, most in the first week after closure.

DOUG ROSS: RDA hasn't run as fast as its creator hoped

State Rep. Chet Dobis dreamed up the Northwest Indiana Regional Development Authority and served as its midwife during the legislative process in 2005. But what does the newly retired lawmaker think of the RDA's work since then?

Hammond paratransit service gets 1-month reprieve

HAMMOND | A last-minute deal brokered by the Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission will allow Triple A Express to continue serving the Regional Bus Authority’s complementary paratransit riders, at least through the month of July.

Regional Bus Authority public meeting transcripts available

The Regional Bus Authority has posted the unedited transcript from its May 3 public meeting regarding termination of bus services.

DOUG ROSS: RBA's Brown is blue, easygo riders are too

With the Regional Bus Authority running out of money Saturday, there is last-minute scurrying to try to maintain the agency's service. That it has reached this stage is shameful.

BRIAN HOWEY: By any measure, our leaders are failing us

We live in in perhaps the wealthiest and most influential country in the history of civilization.

EDITORIAL: Lake County Council throws riders under the bus

The clock is ticking for regional bus service, yet the stubborn Lake County Council has again refused to get on board.

RBA easygo Chicago express buses won't operate Monday

DYER | The Regional Bus Authority's easygo Chicago express morning and afternoon buses running between the Dyer Park and Ride and Chicago's Loop will be not available Monday because of the NATO summit.