Fare Game: When do CTA Buses Break Even?

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🗓️ 20 November 2015

⏱️ 13 minutes

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A look at how many riders it takes to make a bus profitable.

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0:00.0	When we're the...
0:03.0	What school's up?
0:06.0	Who decides what the next...
0:08.0	Where's that story?
0:09.0	Why they give the look?
0:11.0	What is this?
0:13.0	It's a curious city.
0:15.0	Where WBEZ answers your questions about Chicago, the region, and its people.
0:20.0	I'm Christopher Johnson.
0:21.9	If you ride the CTA bus is enough, it'll happen to you.
0:25.7	You'll be rolling along for maybe 20, 30 minutes.
0:28.8	You'll look to the back, see that same kid that was there when you got on,
0:32.7	still staring at his phone.
0:34.7	There's the driver up front, and you, and nobody else.
0:40.3	Experiences like these are what got this guy to drop us a line.
0:44.3	I'm Fred Paneda. I am a postdoctoral student at the University of Chicago.
0:50.3	I catch Fred one morning standing at Wacker in Michigan, waiting on the two to get him to work at the university.
0:56.2	His question for us goes back to his student days.
0:59.3	I used to live in Hyde Park and then come downtown a lot.
1:03.5	And the last bus down to Hyde Park is about 12.30 a.m., the number six bucks that I would take.
1:09.9	And usually there would only be about
1:11.1	four or five of us on that bus, especially during weekday. So I was thinking there's no way
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