Living and breathing in the Second City
So now Daley is supporting Blagojevich’s horrible plan to purchase Wrigley Field. Why? Read between the lines. From the Sun-Times:
“Well, I think they realize it’s much more complicated . . . and that’s very, very important. We have a crisis at the CTA, and we have to get that crisis over with for both the CTA and Metra for long-term funding. That is the priority we should have,” he said.
But, if that’s solved?
“Well, we’ll see,” Daley said.
Ahhh … Daley wants a tax increase to pay for a CTA bail out. Blagojevich has opposed just about any plan that would involve a tax increase. So Wrigley Field is now the bait. The question is can the Governor resist? I’m not a betting man, but I doubt it.
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January 3rd, 2008 at 11:09 am
As “leader” of the city, all Daley seems to be doing is making blustery statements about the CTA “crisis.” Pontificating on Springfield and their inabilities. Where is Daley’s leadership???
The CTA “crisis” is a joke. Again, the number of times I have seen WASTE first-hand on ANY of the lines of the CTA El is staggering. The number of unnecessary employees seemingly doing nothing on the platforms seems to be an ingregious waste of their resources.
Example: 5 CTA employees who are required to do a “sweep” at the end of an el line before it heads back into the city…I get in the El car and garbage remains on the floor, cans rolling among the aisles, as apparently the employees are not required to bend down to pick up trash off the floor…only off the seats. Oh, and of the 5 employees, only 2 are actually doing a walk-through of the el cars, while the others chit-chat on the platform.
The CTA needs to learn the adage of “making do with less,” which is currently employed in MANY corporations across the city landscape, if not the country.
I take issue with subsidizing through tax increases INCOMPETENCE!