WHY DOESN’T CHICAGO’S MAYOR RIDE HIS CITY’S TRANSIT SYSTEM?
The mayor who reassigned Huberman sure doesn’t know much about us, either. Since Daley never sets foot on the his city’s own transit system, he probably has no idea how bad the CTA got for so long, how much better it became under Huberman, nor by dint of how bad it used to be, why many riders now fear a return to the awful old days. Remember, folks, this is the mayor who said in the mid-1990s that transit was dead in modern American cities and that CTA cutbacks really weren’t a big deal. If Daley’s coarsely considered removal of Huberman is any indication, his thinking hasn’t come very far since then. After years of willful neglect of the CTA–and the now 1.8 million Chicagoans who ride the system every weekday–for Mayor Daley to signal that the agency and the people who ride it are second-best is laughable. How out of touch the Chicago mayor must be to think that’s a Progressive message to send about the things that matter in America’s third-largest city. Then again, it’s not like Dale
