Mutiny at the meeting: Lakeview neighbors hijack Metra hearing to voice UP-N concerns
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“We’ve been growing, gentrifying, changing the North Side, and you’re endangering everything we have done,” said one neighbor.
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Parallel lies: Romanelli claims Lake St. is the only ‘L’ branch with no redundant bus line
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To justify spending billions to rebuild the Lake Street 'L' to facilitate driving, he falsely claimed it's "the only rail line that doesn’t have a corresponding bus service within an eighth of a mile."
Data analysis found CTA has only been running about half its scheduled Blue Line runs
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A mobile developer found that has been fairly consistently running roughly 52 percent of its scheduled Blue Line service, with particularly bad gaps at night and on weekends.
$287K verdict shows using flimsy posts to “protect” lanes puts cyclists, taxpayers at risk
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Not only do these flimsy installations fail to provide physical protection, they leave taxpayers on the hook for injury lawsuits against the city government when cyclists wipe out on the broken bollards.
The NDLSD planning process is an opportunity to create a better future. Will IDOT do so?
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"We’re really at a crucial point in the history of humanity when we can make a real bold decision to have a better future. We should seize the moment.”
Cyclist Paresh Chhatrala, 42, died after crash on Madison, where medians were removed
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Compounding the tragedy is the fact that the collision might have been avoided if the city hadn't removed planter medians from the street a couple years ago to facilitate faster driving.