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Originally Posted by glowrock
And that increased rent will continue to drive the lower-paid service workers further and further away, keeping them from accessing reasonable transit, and therefore they will continue to pay more and more and more for transportation. It's a vicious cycle, one where the lower-paid members of our society will continually and perpetually lose.  |
Except that's not how it works in reality. The fact is that most of the working poor do not use transit. Some of the densest working class neighborhoods in the city lie along the Pink Line which only occasionally runs 6 car trains with 4 cars being the standard for 90% of the day. That's a train running directly downtown from areas like Little Village which has 70,000 working class residents.
The fact is most of the people working service jobs at the local cocktail bar are NOT the working poor, but starving artist hipster types living in places like Logan Square. People who live in places like little village work construction or warehouses or other businesses that have roving jobsites or are located in the inner ring suburbs.