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"If the new system works, it could prove to be a model — albeit an expensive one — for other transit systems looking for a way forward after the pandemic caused deep ridership losses and resulting financial chaos."
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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With the democratic hack management appointed to run these transportation systems expect service to decrease and for these people to be asking for even more money at the end of 2026. Having just been to the Chicago Metro area I took a Metra train in from Westmont. The commuter rail parking lot in Westmont is still nowhere near as full as it was in 2019 before covid and Pritzker dumb moves to shut the state down. It won’t recover anytime soon.
Wow, this is a BS article. Total narrative and propaganda. Somehow we are supposed to believe that this $1.5B plan was “in the works” for years. But we are supposed to forget about the $800M original demand earlier this year, that a couple of months ago changed to $200M (that they could get by with) and then the democraps moved it to $1.5B. Uh huh…it all makes sense. No discussion about reductions, resizing…nope – expansion. More routes and they are planning to hose out the trains and buses more often, so ya know, we got that going for us –… Read more »
IL made no transformational investment in public transportation. IL just maintaining the status quo for mismanagement by taxing taxpayers to fund Chicago. Until the state requires Chicago to become fiscally responsible by cutting wasteful spending, political and DEI hires, the mismanagement of CTA will continue. Let Chicago pay for CTA and “put some skin in the game”. DOJ needs to monitor the funds so that these funds aren’t diverted elsewhere.
“What’s super exciting about this is that it is taking the fiscal cliff and turning it on its head,” says Yonah Freemark, a researcher at the Urban Institute. “It’s saying, not only do we need to solve the funding crisis, but we need to make transit better. Still, Freemark says, there “isn’t necessarily anything revolutionary” about what the legislature is doing.” Meanwhile, Illinois and Chicago bleed businesses, employees and taxpayers. Ridership on Chicago Transit peaked in 2012 and has declined ever since. Leftists continue to distract from this fundamental loss of customers for transit by pointing at the China Virus.… Read more »
Well said. That should be an editorial appearing across Illinois.
Yes, Yonah, Illinois took this fiscal cliff and turned it on its head. In doing so, Illinois took its drivers and dropped them on their heads. Once again, Illinois shows how abusive it is to its residents.