Quote Originally Posted by phesina
I've often thought that the people who actually have the power to make such decisions should be REQUIRED, as the first part of the decision-making process, to use the transit system INSTEAD OF their cars for a week or so.. long enough to get an idea of what's available (or not) on weekdays, weekends, holidays and how easy (or not) it is to manage their lives.

Pat
There's been a lot of talk in Illinois about city and state funding for the Chicago Transit Authority. I'm thinking Mayor Daley has never stood on a crowded rush-hour bus on a humid Chicago summer day, or paid $3.49 a gallon at the filling station because there's no viable alternative to the daily drive. And the state's residents pay for Gov. Blagojevich, who lives in Chicago, to travel back and forth to the state capital, Springfield (about a 3-hour drive) by private airplane.