Are suburbs getting short end of transit stick?

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Are suburbs getting short end of transit stick?
October 28, 2013 If you pay $4.50 in tax for a sweater at Oakbrook Center, should some of that money go toward a midmorning Metra train on the BNSF? Or should a portion pay for a faster ride on the Blue Line? That's the essence of an age-old suburban-city turf war over transit funding that recently reignited."Transit needs are significant here," DuPage County Chairman Dan Cronin said Friday at the John Noel Public Transit Conference in Oak Brook. "Tax dollars for transit should directly benefit those who pay them." Source: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20131028/news/710289938/