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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How about increasing CTA staffing, reliability, and ridership as a crime-fighting strategy?
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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?
Lightfoot’s plan to spend $7.5M to pay people to burn gas narrowly passes City Council
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If you're unhappy that your tax dollars will be used to pay people to drive, now you know to hold accountable.
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.
Driver fatally struck Allen Lee Jr., 88, on 5-lane Western Avenue in Morgan Park
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Lee was one of five pedestrians fatally struck on Chicago streets this year.