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Courtesy of our sister site DCist comes the news that D.C.'s mass transit system, Metro, is issuing special commemorative SmarTrip passes (similar to CTA's Chicago Card) for Obama's upcoming inauguration. This has us wondering if the CTA can think of a way to one up D.C. Maybe relabeling all Orange lines with the signature Obama "O"?
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NYT article detailing how the city will spend all of the money from the parking meter lease by 2010.
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I don't think Obama wants his administration associated with the CTA.
The metro, now that's a real subway system.
Dear god, as if Daley, Huberman et al need more dumb ideas...
CTA doesn't have $$$$ for such silly things :]
Yea like D.C does!
I'm with JAH, I hope Daley dosen't read Chicagoist! Well maybe he's "jimbo"
Just from reading the headline, I thought D.C. was giving Obama a free transit card, like, to honor him. I thought, gee, that's swell.
Speaking of transit budgets of DC and Chicago;
I just caught the tail end about a transit bailout that the DC Metrorail is heading up (Channel surfing past CNN). From my quick search on Google news it appears that the CTA and other agencies are getting in line for a bailout too.
http://qurl.com/drk96
IMO we need to draw a line in the sand with the handouts, but I am in favor of injecting transit over the big 3 any day. This quasi-socialism we have that masquerades as capitalism needs to stop. If we are going to implement socialistic policies, finish the damn job and lets get the benefits of national health care and university education for all.
DJ: It's not really a "bailout" in the sense of the $700bn for the financial industry (and, supposedly, to buy up bad mortgages), nor the relatively low-interest line of credit the Big 3 want. The transit agencies, because of capital-related financial deals made over the past couple of decades--and since rulled illegal by the IRS--are asking the fed govt to guarantee those deals in the wake of AIG's near collapse.
dj skilz: a mixed economy is the most stable. without the combination of social and capital endeavours, you wouldnt be on a computer and would not be online.