Inconceivable

How is it that Chicago, a city both overcrowded by automobiles and totally reliant on public transportation, can endanger the very usefulness of the CTA because they want to send a message to the Illinois state assembly?

From Crane's Chicago Business:

Pointing a political gun at the Illinois General Assembly, the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) board on Wednesday voted to slash service 36% and raise some fares unless lawmakers ride to the rescue by mid-July with a $55 million cash bailout.

The cuts are structured in such a way that they would particularly wallop rush-hour commuters, who would face what officials described as "severe crowding" and waits in many cases of twice as long as today.

Ridiculous. Maybe I am moving to the wrong city.