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Welcome! I created this blog to answer some of the questions people have been asking about the CTA's funding situation. We on the board have asked many of these same questions, and we want to help get the word out. So please feel free to send comments or questions to CTAboard@transitchicago.com, and check back regularly for answers and updates to our efforts to increase transit funding. -- Carole

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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Another voice for capital investment in transit

Illinois PIRG released its report, A Better Way to Go: Meeting America’s 21 st Century Transportation Challenges with Modern Public Transit, on some of the challenges facing our transportation infrastructure and articulating the clear benefits of a healthy public transit system can have on our quality of life--reduced auto emissions, improved air quality, better land use patterns, etc. I'm happy that Illinois PIRG offered their voice to the large but still growing chorus that Springfield must step forward with a state capital program to invest in transit infrastructure so CTA and others can address these challenges now.

I encourage you to pay close attention to this capital issue---it's CTA's next big funding challenge.



posted by Carole Brown | 3/26/2008 01:00:00 PM

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