The CTA is Evil
I’m telling you, the CTA people are not particularly bright… Take for exmple the fact that the CTA is cancelling the holiday train. Yup, they put the ax on the train that is decorated inside and out all festively for the holidays and rides along each of the lines with employees dressed as elves in each car taking donations for food pantries. Riders pay the usal fare to ride this train, some CTA employees donate their time to decorate the cars. It’s not like they’re losing money with this train. The holiday train does nothing to hamper or help the budget, at least this year. So why is the CTA making this PR snafu and saying “no holiday train this year”? Because they’re stupid. Because the CTA management knows NOTHING about how to do their jobs and rally the people of the city behind their cause. If they were doing their jobs right, the population of the city of Chicago would be on the state legislators’ asses to help bail the CTA out of the hole it’s in.
Cancelling the “holiday train” isn’t going to solve the budget shortage it’s just going to make more people in the city pissed off at the CTA management. If they were smart they’d publicize the hell out of this holiday train and show what could be lost NEXT YEAR if they don’t get the funding they need. But ya know….what do I know, I just work in advertising…I know nothing about the budgets of public transportation agencies in big cities.
