Critics say CTA favors profits over poor with new system (Trib Article)

The CTA was accused of putting the profits of its corporate partners ahead of the needs of poor people during a hearing Monday night on a new fare-payment system set to debut this summer. Jon Hilkevitch reports about it here.

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Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on April 1, 2013 at 12:11pm
Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on April 4, 2013 at 9:55am

Slightly off topic, but this may be useful to regular CTA riders (like me).

http://www.groupon.com/deals/chicago-transit-authority-cta-4?pt=aUV...

It's 3-day passes for $9 each rather than the usual $20.  Limit of 4, so I can now ride around on the CTA for 12 days this summer for $3/day.  Nice.

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