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Originally Posted by thunda
MarketStEl can correct me if I'm wrong, but in Chicago, I believe that all public transit is organized under the RTA (Regional Transportation Authority) which is the parent of the CTA (city transit), Metra (commuter rail), and Pace (suburban bus). This could potentially be a model, whereby SEPTA's transit services and commuter services are separated administratively but still controlled by the same umbrella organization.
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That structure doesn't seem that different from SEPTA's structure, in which SEPTA is the parent organization over three separate operating divisions: the City Division (subway, El, S-S, city buses), the Suburban Divisions (suburban buses and light rail), and the Regional Rail. It's more or less the same divisions of power and of labor; the only difference is that in Chicago the divisions have different names and thus more distinct identities than SEPTA's operating divisions.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septa#SEPTA_divisions