America’s Best Bus Stops Round 1: Natural Wonders
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Great bus stops don’t grow on trees — but a lot of them sure do have a lot of greenery.
Mapped: Here’s where Willie Wilson will be creating traffic jams and smog on Thursday
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It's good that free stuff is being concentrated in communities that have the most economic need but the negative impacts of congestion, pollution, and increased policing will also be concentrated in those communities.
Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, March 22
| | No Comments- OEMC and CPD say they will help manage traffic and provide security during Thursday gas giveaway (Tribune)
- High-speed crash kills, injures 2 in Washington Park, where alderman said speeding is a non-issue (Fox)
- Driver struck semi on Kirk Rd. in Batavia, causing 6-vehicle crash with 2 killed, 2 injured (NBC)
- Turning driver struck woman, 42, and girl, 6, in crosswalk at Berwyn/Ashland (Block Club)
- Tribune readers call for conductors /more police / zero tolerance enforcement / ousting homeless on CTA
- Metra to add trains to BNSF line to “restore service to near pre-pandemic levels” (Tribune)
- Will County forest preserves celebrate 95th anniversary by asking residents to travel 95 miles on trails (Tribune)
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Talking Headways Podcast: Who Represents “The Community” Part 1 By Jeff Wood Mar 17, 2022
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How do neighborhood groups, elected officials, and public servants claim the mantle of representing “the community”?
The great motor divide: How our obsession with cars has driven us apart
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Transportation by private car fails the city socially, while transit’s built-in opportunities for contact and cooperation are tools we desperately need to leverage in order to learn how to live together again.
Today’s Headlines for Monday, March 21
| | No Comments- CTA crime up nearly 56% in Jan and Feb, violent crime up 24%, property crime up over 200% (Tribune)
- 3 injured, including 3 children, after turning SUV driver failed to yield to CTA bus (ABC)
- Hit-and-run driver inflicted leg injury on man walking in River North (CBS)
- Driver slams into 2 homes in Norwood Park, causing one to partially collapse (ABC)
- Man shot in calf during argument over South Austin car crash (NBC)
- Man sentenced to 25 years for 2013 beating death of a stranger a Green Line platform (ABC)
- 360 N. Green mixed-use building with 90 parking spots will replace parking lot next to Metra tracks (Urbanize)
- CTA, Pace, and Metra honor drivers, operators on “Transit Driver Appreciation Day” (CBS)
- John discusses riding the Red and Blue lines for 12 hours on a Friday night in Outside the Loop Radio
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Gas giveaways harm people. We shouldn’t let rich politicians like Willie Wilson do them.
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Gas giveaways don't just benefit some residents while ignoring others. They negatively impact vulnerable people by slowing down buses and creating more emissions.
Here’s where CDOT could pilot real protected intersections to keep cyclists safe
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Local transportation engineers need to stop reinventing the wheel and just copy protected bikeway designs that work well elsewhere.
Study: Megacar Drivers Up to 4x More Likely to Hit Walkers While Turning
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SUVs and pick-up truck drivers are three to four times more likely to hit a pedestrian when they make a turn than the drivers of smaller cars, a new study finds.
Hit-and-run driver fatally struck Miriam Grande, 70, at Grand/Austin in Belmont Central
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Grande was at least the third person fatally struck while walking in Chicago this year.
Today’s Headlines for Friday, March 18
| | No Comments- Hit-and-run driver fatally struck female pedestrian, 70, in 6000 block of West Grand (ABC)
- 2 airlifted with serious injuries after driver strikes semi in northwest Indiana (NWI Times)
- Friends of entertainment lawyer Linda Mensch, 70, call for action, arrest in deadly Garfield Park hit-and-run (NBC)
- Metra joins fight against proposed freight merger that would impact northwest suburban tracks (WTTW)
- New developments set to revitalize Chicago’s Ogden Avenue corridor (Urbanize)
- Daily Herald bike columnist: Shake off winter doldrums with bike paths featuring colorful murals, sculptures
- John discusses riding the Red and Blue lines for 12 hours last Friday night on City Cast Chicago podcast
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Justice is blind: Lawsuit to force Chicago to retrofit all stoplights with audible signals advances
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Chicago’s dearth of accessible signals is “a huge pain in the ass,” says legally blind artist and musician Andy Slater.