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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City launches income-based traffic fine pilot, halving the fees for low-income residents
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Eligible residents can also eliminate all debt by paying off the original fine on tickets received within the last three years.
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.
Lightfoot’s Climate Action Plan calls for “a zero-emission transportation network”
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The city is billing the plan as a "community-informed plan to mitigate climate-change impacts and position Chicago as a job-creator and economic leader in new economy."
This week in gas-pandering: Wilson plans 3rd giveaway, Lightfoot’s gas cards advance
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Come on, Chicago politicians, when it comes to sucking up to motorists, let's not have a race to the bottom.
$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.