Senior Lecturer Paula Worthington Comments on Chicago Public Transit and Low Ridership

Harris Public Policy Senior Lecturer Paula R. Worthington, who is affiliated with the Center for Municipal Finance and serves as the academic director of the Harris Policy Labs program, was featured in Financial Times commenting on the failure of the Chicago public transit system to recover loses in riders, staff, and money during the pandemic. 

“If we fail to make [Chicago public transit] a vibrant network connecting people to economic opportunity and social experiences, we will fail as a city,"  Worthington said. "Or is it that we are failing as a city, so people have stopped riding buses and trains?”

Full coverage available at Financial Times.