The Chicago Transit Authority

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Infrastructure is basic physical and organizational structure needed for the operation of services

and facilities in society. It generally means to provide framework supporting an entire

development of a particular project, for instance, infrastructure of public transport can be defined

as better train and bus stations, fast and direct transit service, access to every place in city via

train and busses

Public transport is a service provided by the government of the city which is available

use for general public. Public transportation includes busses, rails, subway trains and taxi cab.

Public transport is a vibrant driver which runs day to day economy of the country as it helps

millions of commuters to commute from one place to another in fast pace. Investments in

infrastructure allow goods and services to be transported more quickly and at lower costs,

resulting in both lower prices for consumers and increased profitability for firms. Moreover,

commuters would consider public transport as their first option if infrastructure of public

transportation in the country is well established. Eventually, this will result in increment of

revenue being generated and this revenue can be invested for infrastructure purposes.

The Chicago Transit Authority lacks development in public transport

infrastructure as they are five hundred million dollar short of state and federal funding. This

had resulted the consequences of the infrastructure as trains speed have been slowed and this

led to a more than forty percent increase in late train arrival. After this incident happen, Chicago

Transit Authority Officials said they would renovate the train tracks by the end of the year, so

that there wouldn’t be slow track concerns for the commuters. In my opinion, Chicago Transit

Authority might have lost hundreds of passengers who were commuting daily as they can’t

afford to have a delay in their destination (Helkevitch)

CTA and the suburban bus Pace operators increased the fares by 50 percent, while

commuter rail fares doubled in 1981. Most suburban bus was shut down immediately when RTA

had failed to subsidize payments. The commuter rail fare increased prices provoked the suburban

commuters and this resulted in 40 percent ridership overall. Some riders in suburbs had shifted to

CTA rapid transit and express bus routes to manage their budget of a result increased fares.

(Schwieterman and Mammoser 107)

Bryn Mawr is a red line CTA train station at Chicago, Illinois.

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