ABSTRACT
The City of Chicago, with the aid of federal funds, had built subways and turned them over to it for operation, and the city and state had exempted it from certain taxes. In 1946 the average Chicagoan took 319 rides by mass transportation; in 1956 he took only 163. Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) was not political; neither party got patronage from it, and being a commissioner was not a stepping stone in politics. The dilemma was illustrated by a Sun-Times cartoonist who drew a half-starved horse with an enormous feedbag. Werner W. Schroeder had been a coauthor of the legislation which created CTA and was one of the Governor's principal advisers on transportation matters. Gunlock way the only member who had come to the board with the conviction that CTA would have to be subsidized.
