Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times If ever there was a time to roll out the welcome mat for public transit, it’s now. Recovery from the pandemic will be a long game; it could take years. And we agree with Laura Washington, who wrote in an April 3 column that we, the residents of the Chicago area, need to “do our part to save public transit.” But that alone won’t fix declining ridership. We need transit agencies to make the option of transit very attractive. Substantial federal COVID-19 relief funding has given us the resources to juice the process. We need Chicagoans to regain their transit muscle memory quickly.