Chicago aldermen today blasted the lack of public involvement in how transit projects are selected, calling on the region's transit leaders to speed up reforms.
The failure to move ahead after spending $213 million on the CTA's Block 37 "super station" in the downtown was singled out as a major fiasco during a Chicago City Council hearing to take the pulse of mass transit in the city.
"The peasants should be involved in the planning because the peasants ride the trains," said Ald. Thomas Allen (38th), chairman of the council's Transportation Committee.
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