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The Regional Transportation Authority has said if there’s no legislative funding framework in place when the session ends on May 31, the transit agencies will have to start planning for what could be a 40 percent service reduction, higher fares, and thousands of employee layoffs in 2026.
Audio and summary linked here.
A mess of uncertainty and litigation is sure to follow.
Summary and audio linked here.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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Too bad the CTA isn’t like a normal entity that reduces its workforce when the chips are down or eventually dies. Either way, in business, despite all the tears from the folks in the community, was once was isn’t any longer.
DNC operative ‘Little’ Jeffrey Hirsh tries mightily to advance the talking points of the executive directors of NITA/ex-RTA. With the NITA/ex-RTA now carrying about 60% of its former ridership and now freed from any restraint on costs by the current crop of Springfield political animals, the executive directors fret that they might have to cut service 40% if the Autopen’s Coof advances are not replaced by Springfield political animal advances. Jeffy uses the term ‘mass transit’ even as the term holds no meaning to Chicago (and other) transit providers. Those of us capable of thinking and breathing are only too aware… Read more »