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CTA could provide up to 250 buses for use during the DNC. Will that leave enough for regular bus service? {Chicago}
Chicago Tribune ^ | May 28, 2024 | SARAH FREISHTAT

Posted on 05/28/2024 7:57:42 AM PDT by Salman

The CTA has committed to providing as many as 250 buses for use during the Democratic National Convention this summer, even though the agency has faced staff shortages that led to service cuts in recent years.

The head of the union that represents bus drivers says he anticipates having enough staffing for both the DNC and regular scheduled bus service. But designating buses for the convention has some advocates concerned.

“Pulling CTA operators from their regular routes to a specified task that doesn’t serve all of Chicago is of tremendous concern,” said Kyle Lucas, with the transportation advocacy group Better Streets Chicago. “And what will service look like for everyday people during that time?”

Transportation is just one of the ways the city is likely to feel the effects of the four-day convention, which is expected to bring a slew of politicians, visitors and protesters in August. Though many details about plans for the convention have yet to be publicized, officials have already begun telling residents and downtown businesses to brace for the effects of heightened security around McCormick Place and the United Center, key convention sites.

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(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; convention; democrats; transit
So on top of everything else, massive traffic jams.
1 posted on 05/28/2024 7:57:42 AM PDT by Salman
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>>The CTA has committed to providing as many as 250 buses for use during the Democratic National Convention this summer

But will they be all-electric busses to reduce the DNC’s carbon footprint?


2 posted on 05/28/2024 8:00:57 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: Salman

Busing Illegals to the convention to get their democrat brain implant ?


3 posted on 05/28/2024 8:03:31 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: dfwgator

(CTA)

I liked Live at Carnegie Hall


4 posted on 05/28/2024 8:06:33 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Salman

I liked the Chicago Transit Authority band.


5 posted on 05/28/2024 8:07:27 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: SaveFerris

“The Whole World’s Watching...”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORuS1-437bA


6 posted on 05/28/2024 8:08:13 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: PGalt

I still have the vinyl LP. ..l think.


7 posted on 05/28/2024 8:15:02 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: dfwgator

Yup.


8 posted on 05/28/2024 8:20:05 AM PDT by Freeleesy
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"CTA could provide up to 250 buses for use during the DNC"

Will that be enough buses to haul the rioters to the convention?

9 posted on 05/28/2024 8:28:47 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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Let them all be the Biden favorites - electric buses.


10 posted on 05/28/2024 8:35:29 AM PDT by elpadre
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CTA could provide up to 250 buses for use during the DNC. Will that leave enough for regular bus service?

So what?

Screw the Proles, the important people are the Prog Marxist Democrats.

Always have been.

11 posted on 05/28/2024 8:45:25 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Salman

Who pays?


12 posted on 05/28/2024 8:50:08 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: Carl Vehse

There may not have enough rioters. It seems for the last couple of decades the dems have welshed on paying their thugs. Pay and free lunches never appear as promised. In some cases the dupes even had to get rides home. Was a one way bus trip. It goes in cycles as the dems hope people forget their tricks as the dems keep trying the same. It all boils down to how long ago the dems used and burned their useful idiots.


13 posted on 05/28/2024 9:02:05 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” - Possibly Mark Twain.)
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To: Salman

Ask me if I care. ChiCongo. It’s always been a joke. Now it’s just a tragic comedy.


14 posted on 05/28/2024 9:06:07 AM PDT by LouAvul (DEI = Didn't Earn It. )
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To: Salman

As if democrats attending would ride public busses with the disgusting peasants they rule over.


15 posted on 05/28/2024 9:12:21 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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paddy wagons would be more appropriate


16 posted on 05/28/2024 9:16:15 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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Since when does the CIA provide transportation for delegates to a partisan political convention? Is this something new? Why isn’t this a responsibility of the DNC? Will they do this for the Republican convention?


17 posted on 05/28/2024 9:35:59 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To expand on my earlier comment, why is the CIA - of all agencies - doing this? Why not the Department of Homeland Security? Are they sending a dog whistle that foreign operatives (RUSSIANS!) - eager to help Trump put an end to “democracy” - pose a threat to the convention?


18 posted on 05/28/2024 9:42:26 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Salman
So on top of everything else, massive traffic jams.

And watch the car thefts skyrocket.

19 posted on 05/28/2024 10:24:50 AM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23 "And THIS is His commandment . . . . ")
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To: Salman

Huh, I thought they were gonna be used to transport illegals around the city


20 posted on 05/28/2024 11:18:08 AM PDT by oil_dude
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