I’m confident that the generally car-centric folks on the Chicago Tribune editorial board deserved the spanking I gave them on Friday for their rather arrogant editorial about our region’s looming $770 million total transit budget gap. "Chicago’s transit agencies want you to panic," the headline stated. "They don’t explain the whole truth."
The Tribune piece portrayed the agency leaders as a bunch of nervous nellies, and implied we might not actually have a crisis on our hands next year, in the form of 40 percent less public transportation service. They described the situation as a "so-called" emergency, and used patronizing language to describe those of us who are rightly freaking out about it, calling us "panicked," "frantic," and "begging legislators for money."
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May 5, 2025 at 07:07PM
