Editorial: RTA claims it needs new money from taxpayers. But where are the big new ideas? – Chicago Tribune/Yahoo

"Here’s one uncomfortable truth that the RTA should be discussing: Chicago actually does a much better job of advocating for transit expansion, or capital expenditure, that it does providing adequate service that closely matches actual demand. Lines, we can extend. Stations, we can improve. Service, it appears, befuddles us."
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The Railroader
3 years ago

Ruh roh. When you start to lose the wokesters at the Trib, a once-great Chicago newspaper now relegated to regurgitating press releases from Democrats peppered with moronic ESG, DEI, and SJW stories, you are in serious trouble. Even while petulantly whining about Metra’s icky bad diesel power, the woke Trib editorial board had the temerity to point out the empty trains running primarily for the employment of CTA and Metra employees. They even went so far as to question the cost of the CTA’s latest means to enrich the political class: the unneeded Red Line Extension. In today’s world of… Read more »

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