The League of Iowa Human & Civil Rights Agencies

Though critics of the Chicago Transit Authority’s recent cuts in service contend that the reductions disproportionately affect low-income and minority areas, a Chicago News Cooperative analysis of transit, racial and economic data paints a more even-handed, and milder, picture. A measurement of wait times and reductions of late-night service shows that the cuts do not have a bigger affect on those sections of the city. Critics argue that minorities, particularly on the South and West Sides, are hurt worse by the service cuts because they rely more on buses than trains to get to work, and because the C.T.A. trimmed more buses than trains.

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