The official tumblr of amtrak — Okay so as we all know, Public transportation is...

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I don't know how to talk dirty to you but I can rant about the public infrastructure of Chicago if that's good enough for you

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Okay so as we all know, Public transportation is woefully underfunded in the US, this extends to the transit systems of Chicago such as the CTA and Metra. So The CTA was good until recently in terms of quality, but in recent years as office workers have left the office and Covid relief money has run dry there has been an ever growing lack of money at the CTA which is needed to run daily operations leading to constant delays and trains that never arrive as the CTA can’t even afford to run enough trains. This increase in time between trains leads to less people riding the train over driving which worsens the budget crisis which worsens the problem of missing trains. The CTA is trapped in an incredibly viscous cycle