“As a lifetime rider of the CTA and a continuing rider of the CTA, I’m very much appreciative not only of the fact of the hard decisions both (CTA President Dorval Carter) and (former President Forrest Claypool) have made that for eight straight years we haven’t had a fare increase, which isn’t true of … Metra,” Emanuel said after a brief City Council meeting to advance his proposed 2018 budget. “And I’ve been very clear that the one thing that is definitely, a hundred percent off the table are any service cuts.”