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Free transit rides help shuttle CPS students back to school
Associated Press | Sep. 05, 2011
Chicago's public school students are getting a free ride on their first day of class.
Thanks to a partnership between the schools, the Chicago Transit Authority and businesses, kids can ride free Tuesday on city buses and trains. Adults with them can ride free, too, between 5:30 a.m. and 8 p.m. that day. Those are the usual hours for reduced-fare rides. Kids with student cards will also be eligible.
Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard says instruction begins on day one and that getting kids there on time can help ensure they're ready to learn.Businesses helping subsidize the rides include Garrett Popcorn Shops, AT&T, Microsoft and Hyatt Hotels.
The CTA generally provides about 150,000 daily rides for students using student reduced fare permits; most of those kids attend public schools.Like WBEZ on Facebook
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This is being inconsistently carried out today. On the way back from dropping off my children a bus driver gave me a hard time. When I called CTA to complain, I was advised that the child had to be with me. According to the news stories of the Associated Press and others this is not accurate. Other parents with their children were not being informed that they did not have to pay by the bus drivers. I paid to ride the "el" train on the way to school with my child.