Wed 30 May 2007
The $7 CTA fare: Fat chance!
Posted by Daniel under CTA, Current events
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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May 30th, 2007 at 10:57 am
An excuse to buy a car? Why, you don’t have nearly enough hassle and stress in your life?
May 30th, 2007 at 11:27 am
Ha. Don’t ask.
May 30th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
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.
May 30th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
Yeah, but still. Don’t mess with me like that!
May 30th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Haha. I know not to mess with you like that. I guess the CTA hasn’t figured that out yet..
May 30th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
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.
May 30th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Tell me about it.