Crisis Averted
January 18th, 2008 by Josh
Well the transit funding measure passed yesterday, so Doomsday III has been averted.
“All’s well that ends well,” Blagojevich said. “I think the wait was well worth it because the result is very, I think, significant for the people in the Chicagoland area as well as for our senior citizens all across Illinois who are going to see an improvement in their quality of life.”
Oh, shut the fuck up, you horse’s ass! You are truly a first class shit head. It was not worth the wait. This should have been settled months ago.
Sen. Martin Sandoval (D-Chicago) compared Blagojevich to Cuban leader Fidel Castro and other “dictators.”
“Today democracy is dead in Illinois,” said Sandoval, who voted for the plan. “There is no give and take. There is no compromise.”
Ha! And this is a fellow Democrat. While I personally wouldn’t go so far as to call Blago a dictator, he is clearly an impediment to progress rather than a driver behind it. And the state legislators are far from being blameless in this whole fiasco.
So does this mean everything is now wonderful, and transit is going to improve drastically for us? Hardly.
Transit officials warned the job is only half done. RTA Chairman Jim Reilly said lawmakers now must turn their attention to finding money to repair the system’s crumbling tracks, aging buses and rusting equipment, needs that could tally as much as $10 billion.
The funding measure passed this week will simply keep the CTA, Metra and Pace systems up and running as they are now–poorly. But at least they will be running.
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