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With the CTA facing a budget gap in the hundreds of millions of dollars and another potential CTA fare hike looming, everyone involved is looking for ways to save some cash. The Regional Transportation Authority has now suggested tweaking the free rides for seniors program implemented by then-governor Rod Blagojevich. Instead of giving free rides to all seniors, the RTA has suggested providing free rides to low-income seniors who make below a suggested threshold of $22,000 a year. The RTA cited a study by the University of Illinois in Chicago which estimated the CTA lost between $38 million and $112 million from the new program. According to the RTA, setting the new limit would account for a boost of around $37 million for the CTA.
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University of Illinois at Chicago, not University of Chicago. UIC gets no love.
Makes sense. If you have to choose between cutting service for tens of thousands of people (and/or drastic fare hikes) and making people who can afford to pay some, pay some the choice is obvious. They'll still be getting reduced fares.
word to your means-tested grandmother. They should dump the active-duty exemption too, maybe get the local military bases to offer the equivalent of a U-Pass.
Did we ever get an estimate of what the CTA would cost to run if we launched 2/3 of the management and the whole fare selling/counting department and just make the buses and trains free for all? Just wondering.