Chicago mayor assumes state will help CTA
Posted October 22, 2015 11:00 pm
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is defending his decision to roll the dice with a CTA budget that freezes fares and maintains service for the third straight year, but assumes that Gov. Bruce Rauner will roll back a 50 percent cut in transit subsidies.
The CTA uses the money to defray at least some of the cost of providing bargain fares or free service to low-income riders and people with disabilities. Rauner has proposed cutting those subsidies in half.
The plan to hold the line on fares also makes two risky assumptions: That the state budget impasse will be resolved before Dec. 31 and that the salaries of CTA employees will be frozen.
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