Flickr user Mike Miley depicts better times, before CTA services elminated commuter convenience of any kind.
Hoping to preserve the North Avenue, Armitage, Fullerton, Diversey, and Halsted bus routes late night and early morning schedules, Daley aims primarily to protect the impacted workforce of residents and workers in the 43rd Ward.
Groaning about the suckiness of the whole thing is one thing, but Daley's points are undeniable. The routes she calls "essential" transport workers to and from early and late shift work and help red-eye commuters to O'Hare.
Daley's press release outlines her reasons, but not her strategy. She says,