Crisis in Chicago
There is no transit system in America more in danger than Chicago's CTA. The nation's third busiest rail system, after New York and Washington, and third biggest transit system overall, after New York and Los Angeles, the CTA has been facing budget problems for years. Now, however, it looks like there's not much to do in order to avoid massive cuts.
Basically, Chicago's transit system has no reliable source of money. Over the years, management has campaigned vigorously to do something about the problem, to get the state government to institute a special tax, or to receive special appropriations from the state government.
But that hasn't happened. So now the agency expects to have to make drastic cuts. Not only will costs to ride dramatically increase, but the number of bus routes provided will be more than halved. Thousands of employees will be fired by November. The CTA expects to lose 250,000 daily riders.
This is a catastrophic situation, and it shouldn't be happening. There's a this site, where you can find out how to make sure these cuts don't happen.
In this age of improved transit just about everywhere else, Chicago doesn't need to see its system fall apart.
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ysf | 11:16 AM |
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