As ridership struggles to remain high, Wildcats board the CTA with optimism

As ridership struggles to remain high, Wildcats board the CTA with optimism
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As ridership struggles to remain high, Wildcats board the CTA with optimism

Feb 28 2026 | 00:04:20

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Episode February 28, 2026 00:04:20

Show Notes

Back home in Hawai‘i, I sit in bumper-to-bumper traffic every day and watch as the Rail, our new, very expensive, and poorly planned train, passes over the road completely void of passengers. Here in Evanston, I board the CTA with a thoughtless swipe of my Ventra card onto a bustling train car.  At Northwestern, taking advantage of public transportation has become a staple of my life. The thought that I may ever need a car in this city has never crossed my mind, while in Hawai’i it’s hard to imagine living without it.  Students from areas with similar public transit […]

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