The Mayor's proposal is straightforward: increase the income tax on people who can most easily bear it, and who benefit from the city's having
a functioning public transit system whether or not they use it themselves.
A Transportation Infrastructure Finance Innovation Act loan of $ 292 million, in combination with previously issued and authorized general airport bond revenues would make available the funds to finance an $ 884 million multi-modal development project that would consolidate rental car
functions as well as
public parking into a multi-level structure and provide for an extension of the Airport
Transit System (ATS) at O'Hare.