Why Public Transportation is an Important Issue

Even though Belmont Heights is only 12 miles away from downtown, it takes over one hour to get downtown using the CTA. That's slower than 12 miles an hour. You can get downtown faster on a horse. There are farther suburbs where access to downtown is much faster than ours. If we want better access to higher paying downtown jobs and attract more professionals to our area (think increasing the tax base) then we need improved public transportation to our community.