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Ald. Brendan Reilly said, "In a way, I'm glad to see the traffic because it means folks are coming back to work. The concern is how they're coming back." CTA Ridership is still less than half of what it was, with just over 100 million train trips last year.
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Summary and audio linked here.
Transit is last millennium’s failed paradigm — public transit ridership has been falling since the 1970s — the answer is bigger and better streets, roads and highways — Americans don’t want to ride the bus or bike to work like some Euro-Cuck in a beret
Maybe this is what CTA needs-Subway Pushers like in Japan except there are no riders other than thugs. So Thug Pushers is more accurate.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2016/08/subway-pushers-of-japan.html
Well, here in the States they want to push you off the platform into the oncoming train. NY Post is choc full of these types of incidents.