Cutting Plan * USA - Chicago's transit budget at a crossroads
Emergency funds are granted as state lawmakers debate a sales-tax increaseChicago,Ill,USA -The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles,CAL), by P.J. Huffstutter-November 3, 2007: -- These are tough times for commuters who rely on the Chicago Transit Authority, the nation's second-largest public transportation system, which is used by about 1.6 million riders each day on bus and rail lines across the city and in 40 surrounding suburban areas... For months, state lawmakers have been locked in debate over how to find more than $226 million to balance the 2007 operating budget for the transit system, which runs buses, the elevated train line known as "the El" and other regional rail, bus and shuttle lines... Transit officials had warned that if lawmakers couldn't resolve the budget, they would have no choice but to cut services Sunday, which would have affected about 100,000 riders... The plan called for cutting at least a quarter of the bus routes -- some of them specifically devoted to the rush-hour commute in and out of downtown -- and raising fares by as much as $1 and laying off 800 transit workers... (Photo from www.luc.edu: Air pollution in Chicago)
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