CTA Touts Report Showing Transit’s Key Role in Chicago Region – But Agency President Quiet on Proposed Merger – WTTW (Chicago)

The MIT/Argonne report modeled a hypothetical scenario in which public transit disappeared from the region entirely. It found that travel times would increase by 35 percent, 2 million trips each day would be canceled, and the region would lose $35 billion in annual direct economic activity – to say nothing of ripple effects from lost jobs, shuttered businesses and higher cost of living.
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