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Article: Get off the bus
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 16, 1998
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Here we are again - hundreds of thousands of us still-faithful
CTA riders standing at the corner these sweaty, steamy, wilting,
ozone-choked July days with August yet to come - waiting for our bus.
So, what are the odds on our lucking into an air-conditioned
ride to work or home or wherever? Just a hardly comfortable shade
better than 50-50.
More than 25 years after the CTA bought its first
air-conditioned buses, our transit agency owns 943 buses with AC and
939 still without.
Why are we sweltering in this situation lo these many years
later? And what is CTA management doing about strengthening the
shaky odds we now confront on the CTA's weekday daily average of
880,000 bus rides?
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