The $7 CTA fare: Fat chance!

In a Sun-Times report today, Monifa Thomas writes that the Chicago Transportation Authority mulled around some ideas to help get rid of its $97.5 million budget gap yesterday.

One plan, she said, was to raise bus and train fares to $7 during rush hour.

If the CTA did this, then any claims that Chicago is a “green” city are void. With fares at seven bucks, low-income Chicagoans will have to buy old, low-priced, smoke-spewing cars to get to work. Chicago will be gridlocked and the CTA will bear all of the blame.

Just because Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich hasn’t signed another check to the CTA doesn’t mean that CTA President Ron Huberman has the right to approve this.

And you know what? I’ll finally have an excuse to buy a car.

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  • Tell me about it.
  • Same old CTA scare tactic crap. Hike fares to ridiculous levels. Eliminate the Purple Line Express service and tear down the Yellow Line. Make South Side service even worse than it is now.

    Yawn. We've heard it all before under Frank Kruesi. Same shit, different shovel.

    And they're still jerks to the media.
  • Mollie
    Haha. I know not to mess with you like that. I guess the CTA hasn't figured that out yet..
  • Yeah, but still. Don't mess with me like that!
  • Mollie
    Do you honestly think they will actually increase it to that? From living in Chicago my whole life, I can attest to the fact they always propose a larger increase, then it ends up being a nickel or so. That's what has been happening since I was younger, from what I remember. Hopefully the $7.00 is a shockvalue thing it and it will lower if it actually has to happen.
  • Ha. Don't ask.
  • An excuse to buy a car? Why, you don't have nearly enough hassle and stress in your life?
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