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Do you think boycotting cta is the answer? |
Travel Info the cta is proposing suspendind 60+ bus and 2 train lines unless springfield gives the cta funding for it. my suggestion is that if so many people boycott public transportation for one day, then something will be done about this craziness!!! for more information go to http://www.transitchicago.com/ you can also submit comments to the cta -- public comment may be submitted to the board a. by email at ctahelp@transitchicago.com or b. writing to the following address: Chicago Transit Authority P.O. Box 7567 Chicago, IL 60680 Attention: Gregory Longhini, Assistant Secretary, Chicago Transit Board. All written comments are due by June 11, 2007. if you want to be a part of this boycott, add yopur name to this list and pass it along. i will be attending the final public hearing at the cta headquarters june 13 at 9 am. i would like to take these petitions to them to show how serious we are. IF YOU USE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, MAKE SURE THAT YOU ADD YOUR NAME TO THIS!!! Travel Tips On paper a boycott sounds good, but if you're organizing it, you'd better be prepared to provide an alternate form of transportation. There are people who DEPEND on the cTA to get to and from work, school, etc. They don't own cars, live too far to bike it, can't walk because they're too old or handicapped, have to go to work and don't have time to drive the kids to school every day, etc., etc. So how are you going to get all those people to join the boycott if you can't give them another means to get to work? I mean, they gotta eat... Boycotting the CTA is nearly impossible, which is the reason they can say they're cutting 60 bus routes or raising the fair to $7.. because they know they have people by the short hairs. Now, to be fair, when they staged the Montgomery (Ala.) bus boycott (the Rosa Parks incident), everyone came together and provided rides to work for all the maids, workers, etc. They carpooled basically. But that was a MUCH smaller area involving a MUCH smaller number of people. We're talking MILLIONS of people who use the CTA every day. So to answer your question, no, boycotting the CTA isn't the answer. It's a noble thought but it won't work. Sorry. Others My wife drives into work everyday and gets expensed parking. I work on the other side of town, but started driving in with her when they started up the construction on Belmont and Fullerton. It's 50,000 times better than taking the train. I don't miss people shoving thier way in front of me so they can be the first ones on, or the hundreds of tourists and HS kids that jam themselves on the red line so they can go to the Cubs game. I think it is important to SUPPORT public transportation. It is good for the environment, allows people without cars to travel around the city, gets thousands of chicago students to school each day, provides thousands of jobs to CTA employees, and is just generally a good (and necessary) system for any metropolitan area. Chill out. They're just doing improvements so that the future of the CTA is secure, which is crucial to the future of Chicago. Instead, I think you should visit: www.movingbeyondcongestion.com Don't waste your time. Your boycott will do nothing. |
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