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ATA's staff and board at the reception. Photo: John Greenfield

Banasiak, Duckworth, and Moeller honored at ATA awards reception

By John Greenfield | May 3, 2022 | No Comments

The Active Transportation Alliance's annual awards reception gives credit to people who've made a difference to improve Chicagoland sustainable transportation in the past year.

Brenda Barrie, who led the charge to demand a town hall format, and other residents at last week's meeting. Photo: Igor Studenkov

Mutiny at the meeting: Lakeview neighbors hijack Metra hearing to voice UP-N concerns

By Igor Studenkov | May 2, 2022 | No Comments

“We’ve been growing, gentrifying, changing the North Side, and you’re endangering everything we have done,” said one neighbor.

A CTA bus driver on Inner Lake Shore Drive. Photo: John Greenfield

How about increasing CTA staffing, reliability, and ridership as a crime-fighting strategy?

By John Greenfield | Apr 28, 2022 | No Comments

What if we focused on getting the CTA workforce up to full strength as a strategy to increase reliability, ridership, and safety, by having more eyes in the 'L' cars to deter crime and bad behavior?

The Lake/Ashland 'L' station. Is it really necessary to have a redundant bus directly below the Lake Street branch? Roger Romanelli says yes. Photo: Jeff Zoline.

Parallel lies: Romanelli claims Lake St. is the only ‘L’ branch with no redundant bus line

By John Greenfield | Apr 26, 2022 | No Comments

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."

The Bloomingdale Trail, opened in summer 2015. One of the goals of the climate plan is to "improve air quality by expanding the city’s walk, bike, and transit options." Photo: John Greenfield

Lightfoot’s Climate Action Plan calls for “a zero-emission transportation network”

By John Greenfield | Apr 22, 2022 | No Comments

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."

A mockup of the Chicago of the Chicago Moves gas or transit card, with Lightfoot's name on it. Image via WTTW

This week in gas-pandering: Wilson plans 3rd giveaway, Lightfoot’s gas cards advance

By John Greenfield | Apr 21, 2022 | No Comments

Come on, Chicago politicians, when it comes to sucking up to motorists, let's not have a race to the bottom.

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