City is considering a 606-style elevated greenway for North Lawndale
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The Altenheim Line could spur development in North Lawndale. But residents are worried it could also lead to displacement.
Belmont Cragin and Hermosa celebrate new Divvy stations, bikeway network
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It would be great if this approach of creating a cohesive, useful bike network all at once was implemented in every Chicago community that currently lacks one.
Today’s Headlines for Friday, August 13
| | No Comments- Man accused of killing Officer Ella French was free after being charged in hit-and-run (WGN)
- Tribune: 6 mph ticketing rule resulted in about 300K citations and $11M in fines in first 2 months
- Man stabbed while sleeping on Red Line is 8th CTA stabbing victim since June 24 (NBC)
- Police charge 18-year-old driver who admitted to deadly Lincolnwood hit-and-run (WGN)
- Ex-CPD officer gets year in prison for taking bribes in exchange for crash report details (Sun-Times)
- Metra passengers were stuck on Kenosha-bound train for hours following Tuesday’s storm (Kenosha News)
- Win 4 ticket’s to ATA’s Bike the Drive on September 5 (WGN)
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High rents are a policy choice: What’s driving displacement across The North Side
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We should reverse the down-zonings that have rendered much of the city unaffordable and exclusionary.
CTA offers free rides on 1st day of school, but Muni pilots all-year free rides for youth
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Launching a free fares pilot for schoolchildren would be a great way to start improving transportation equity in Chicago, helping us catch up with peer cities that are way ahead of us in that department.
Today’s Headlines for Thursday, August 12
| | No Comments- ATA: Take action now to fix highway-heavy bipartisan infrastructure bill
- City panel approves $600M to finish Cabrini-Green redevelopment (Block Club)
- Bike/ped bridge planned for Pratt, connecting West Ridge to N. Shore Channel Trail (Block Club)
- Outride fund donates $10K to Blackstone Bikes, $12.5K to Bikes for Belmont Cragin (Pinkbike)
- Female passenger reportedly spat at a CTA employee at Linden (Tribune)
- Bikes for Batavia works to restore bikes to help those in need (Tribune)
- The Millennium Park bike station has new management, rebranded as Hub312 (Yahoo Finance)
- A bike tour of Oak Park’s Midcentury architecture (WBEZ)
- Boxing Out Negativity’s Street Love Ride takes place Saturday 8/21 in North Lawndale
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Panelists: Disability and bike communities have common interests, should join forces
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"We really need to work together and build trust so people can work together to build a broader coalition."
Colorful crosswalks coming to intersections by Rogers Park Metra stop
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It's puzzling why the decorative intersection treatments are going to relatively quiet side-street intersections instead of Clark Street.
Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, August 11
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- West Side rail line could be converted into an elevated trail like the 606 (Block Club)
- Last night’s extreme weather caused power outages and transit delays (CBS 2)
- More coverage on Metra and CTA delays caused by last night’s storm (WGN)
- As of this morning, more than 100,000 people were still without power (Sun-Times)
- There’s a shortage of school bus drivers in the suburbs (Fox 32)
- World Naked Bike Ride returns to Chicago this weekend (Time Out)
- Aurora’s “Green Mile” bike lane needs repairs (Aurora Beacon News)
- Tom Carper, Amtrak board member and former mayor of Macomb writes an opinion piece in The Hill about why trains matter
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Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, August 10
| | No Comments- Red Line back to normal service after stall at Roosevelt early this morning (Tribune)
- Norwood Park prayer service planned for victims of rideshare-train crash (Block Club)
- Chicago’s Vautravers Building makes a move, literally (Archinect)
- Divvy bike share is expanding to Austin and seeks input (Austin Talk)
- Introduce your kid to biking during Kidical Mass this weekend (Block Club)
- Bike the Drive is coming back to Chicago this September (WGN Radio)
- New law establishes high-speed rail commission to connect St. Louis and Chicago (ABC 20)
- Germany’s train drivers to go on nationwide strike (WGN Radio)
- Musician Dave Matthews spotted having dinner along Chicago River on anniversary of infamous tour bus incident (Eater)
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Here’s why Chicago needs an office of parking management
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If we really want to see the rapid development of bus lanes, or a protected bike lane network, or wider sidewalks, or pedestrian plazas, then we must also understand parking needs and manage parking more intelligently.
Today’s Headlines for Monday, August 9
| | No Comments- Chicago Tonight covers the expansion of bike lanes into Hermosa and Belmont Cragin
- Gov. Pritzker signs bill that will lead to creation of high-speed rail commission (Trains)
- Scooters could be coming back to Chicago, contingent on some safety improvements (ABC 7)
- Taste of Andersonville will return this Wednesday (Block Club)
- Northalsted Market Days will feature vaccination booth for the week-long event (Eater)
- Tribune editorial board argues that it’s now time to get behind Obama Center plan
- The red-blue divide in transit spending is between rural highways and urban public transit (NBC News)
- Members of the Automobile Mechanics Local 701 go on strike outside 56 Chicago-area car dealerships (Daily Herald)
- The NY Times asks whether the pandemic-inspired Open Streets will survive
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