Friday, Apr 19, 2024 – Posted by Isabel Miller

* Wednesday…

* Gov. JB Pritzker held a media availability Thursday night after the House passed his Healthcare Protection Act legislation…

Isabel Miller: Governor, do you have confidence in Dorval Carter’s ability to lead the CTA?

Gov. Pritzker: Look, a lot of changes are going to have to take place, there’s no doubt, at CTA. And I think that’s going to take some new leadership, and additional leadership.

It’s something the legislature and I, and of course the city of Chicago, and we’re gonna have to consider the plan that the CTA should have come forward with already, which we haven’t seen, but that may include changing fares and other things that will help us deal with what is clearly going to be a fiscal cliff here. We’re also hoping to see help from the federal government.

Isabel: ‘New leadership’ meaning Dorval Carter should be fired?

Pritzker: I know you all have tried to use the word ‘fired’ here. I think that there needs to be an evolution of leadership in order for us to get where we need to go with CTA.

So, that’s something that will be discussed. As you know, I have appointments at CTA but they’re not a controlling majority. But the people that we appoint, of course, we’ll be working with the others are on the board to evaluate and make changes in management.

The “additional leadership” comment is also interesting. Sounds like the proposed combined regional agency that the transit agencies oppose.

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[Rich Miller contributed to this post.]