The Chicago Tribune editorial page today called on the Illinois General Assembly to send a mass transit funding bill to Governor Blagojevich where he can either sign or veto the bill before the January 20 doomsday deadline.

The governor, has previously threatened to reject SB 572, the only bill to funding solution without creating a major hole in the state budget.  Earlier this week, he urged lawmakers to send him a bill that he would "improve."

After months and months of inaction, the Tribune says enough is enough:

This would be a good time for lawmakers to abstain from second-guessing the governor and drop this bill on his desk. Let him sign it into law or explain to commuters why the buses stopped running while he was monkeying with the only fair and workable solution anyone has proposed all year. That sales tax increase would apply only to the counties served by mass transit. It would provide a long-overdue source of dedicated funding, ending the annual cycle of threatened cuts averted by lump-sum bailouts.

 Read the entire editorial here