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Dec 6, 2007 1:19 pm US/Central

Jones: Don't Blame State For CTA Funding Crisis

Senate President Says Years Of CTA Mismanagement Are To Blame

CHICAGO (AP) ― Illinois Senate President Emil Jones assured a Chicago civic group that lawmakers want to bail out the Chicago Transit Authority.

But Jones says lawmakers shouldn't be blamed for the CTA's financial crisis, which he says was caused by years of mismanagement.

The CTA and suburban mass transit agencies are threatening service cuts and fare increases in January if they don't get better long-term funding.

Transit funding has failed to pass because many lawmakers won't vote for it until a plan for gambling expansion to pay for a statewide construction program is worked out.

CTA chairwoman Carole Brown says the agency has taken steps to be more efficient, have better union agreements and clean up management. 

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