Chicago’s Transit Chief Says Crime Is Hurting Ridership Rebound – Bloomberg

“The bottom line is that we are dependent on ridership and fare revenues,” Dorval Carter said. “That has not changed substantially pre pandemic to post pandemic...When crime does occur, it is very public and it gets a lot of attention and it certainly feeds a perception that riding public transportation is not as safe as it used to be. That is something we have to address.”
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Poor Taxpayer
3 years ago

Nothing will change, no one enforces the law, NO ONE.

debtsor
3 years ago

And few want to go downtown any more. The EL is designed to primarily transport people from the neighborhoods to downtown and back, and most el stops are no destinations in and of themselves. Who wants to travel to the Addison or Montrose blue line or Montrose Red line stop from another part of the city? No one. And few do.

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