Chicago Agency Overbilling U.S. Told to Change Mileage Claims

The Chicago Transit Authority collected more federal aid than it should have after inflating mileage covered by its bus routes, the U.S. Transportation Department said.

The Federal Transit Administration in April ordered the Chicago system to revise its 2011 tally of revenue-producing miles, which helps determine U.S. funding, and to change the way it counts mileage from now on, FTA Administrator Peter Rogoff said in a statement. Chicago’s public-transportation system is the third-largest in the U.S. by bus ridership.