Monday, June 11, 2007

Sick Transit, Part 3. CTA, are your trying to lose me to METRA?

I ask this assumption based on two possibilities.
1.The CTA raises its monthly pass to $122.00
2. METRA doesn't raise it's mothly passes.

Heck,it be easy for me to tell my employer to stop paying for the monthly CTA card and switch it to METRA.
Looking at the list of routes to be cut, it appears that CTA is conceding passengers to METRA.
I see they are cutting Evanston routes such as the 201, and the 206.
Not everyone can afford that switch.
How many Evanston Hosptial workers can afford a ten ride Metra ticket to Central street?
How may domestics who ride the Pace 213, after connecting through the purple line can afford a ten-ride Metra ticket to Winnetka from downtown Chicago?
We are many, we reverse commuters. Suburbs, you need us. You need CTA service as much as we city folk do.
More after I've had a night's sleep.

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