Mayor Lori Lightfoot to make announcement about ‘transportation assistance’ amid high gas prices

Late Wednesday night time, the mayor’s workplace stated Lightfoot could be joined by metropolis leaders at Metropolis Corridor Thursday morning to announce “transportation help.”

Whereas no particulars got, final week the mayor stated town wanted to determine a manner to offer reduction to drivers.

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Drivers in Chicago pay 53 cents per gallon in taxes whenever you add up metropolis, county and state taxes.

The mayor had just lately floated the thought of rolling again the 3-cents-a-gallon improve within the metropolis’s fuel tax that was included in her 2021 “pandemic finances.”

The Metropolis Council’s Finance Committee was alleged to take up the mayor’s plan this previous Monday, however that was abruptly canceled.

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This additionally follows Willie Wilson’s two latest, and extremely standard, “fuel giveaways,” throughout which hundreds of drivers got $50 value of free fuel.

The Chicago Solar-Instances reviews Lightfoot has been exploring the potential for providing fuel playing cards to motorists and Ventra credit to CTA riders.

Lightfoot’s information convention is deliberate for 10:30 a.m. Thursday.