R-73-17RESOLUTION R -73- 17
WHEREAS, the lack of concrete action by the Illinois State Legislature
toward creating a Regional Transportation Authority has brought about a crisis
situation for mass transportation in the six Northeastern counties of Cook, Lake,
McHenry, Kane, DuPage and Will; and
WHEREAS, there is an impending threat of immediate cutbacks in bus and
rapid transit service throughout the six counties area, all premised on well
documented applications from the affected transportation companies for financial
relief ranging from reduction of services and increased fares to complete aban-
donment of operations; and
WHEREAS, these imminent calamities point out the necessity to promptly
establish a Regional Transportation Authority to insure the future existence of
adequate mass transportation in the area; and
WHERE'AS, sound and comprehensive transportation legislation was
introduced in the last session of the State Legislature, as embodied in House
Bill 1958, which provided for a Regional Transportation Authority which could
incorporate all of the existing commuter lines into one system, provide adequate
and workable control and planning features, improve services tto and from all
six counties, reduce automobile traffic and pollution, minimize urban sprawl
and the ever expanding expressway development, and provide lower rate
structures and better interconnecting services between the various commuter
lines; and
WHEREAS, the hope of achieving a workable Cm'alss raid transit:, system in
;Northe' astern' Ilinois.restsDon.tlieienactment into law of such a Regional Trans-
portation Authority)','--.' but unfortunately neither that Bill nor any other of like
quality and purpose, was passed out of the House due to political maneuvering
concerning methods of control and financing; and;r
WHEREAS, there are seven people who have the power and ability to
solve the problems of creating an efficient and financially stable mass trans-
portation system in Northeastern Illinois and insuring that these same problems
do not occur again and they are: Governor Daniel Walker, Mayor Richard J.
Daley, House Speaker W. Robert Blair, Senate President William C. Harris,
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Senator Cecil A. Partee and Representatives Gerald W. Shea and Clyde L. Choate.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT AND IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED by the
Board of Trustees of the Village of Deerfield, Illinois, that we now call upon
the aforenamed seven political leaders to forget their political partisanship
and sit down together and work out their disagreements and so act immediately in
order that the seven million affected and concerned citizens in Northeastern
Illinois may have the Regional Transportation Authority which is so essential
to the continued growth and well being of the region.
PASSED this 6th day of August, 1973 at Deerfield, Illinois.
VILLAGE PRESIDENT