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Active Trans Director Ron Burke Is Stepping Down to Work for Lyft on Micro-mobility Active Trans: The State Bike/Walk Fund Will Advance Transportation Equity Lynda and UIC Transpo Expert Kate Lowe Discussed the Scooter Pilot on “Chicago Tonight“ Lynda Discusses Active Trans‘ Fair Fares Campaign for Reduced-Cost Transit Officials: 3 Injured, 2 Critically, in CTA […]

An Update on Efforts to Reform Chicago’s Inequitable Car Ticketing System (WBEZ) The Next Big Idea State Legislators Should Tackle: Property Tax Reform (Tribune) Police Officer Charged With DUI After Crashing Into Restaurant, Killing Woman, 34 (CBS) Driver Cited After Fatally Striking Man, 30, at 63rd/Ashland in Englewood (Sun-Times) Driver Fleeing Traffic Stop in Austin […]

IL Senate Bases Passes $45B Capital Bill With Higher Driving Fees, Amtrak and Metra Funding (Tribune) Man on bike Suffers Wound to Hand From Crossfire in Humboldt Park (Block Club) Blue Line trains Delayed on West Side by Medical Emergency at Western Station (Sun-Times) Driver Crashes Into Avalon Park’s Taurus Flavors, Home of the “Sweet […]

With O’Hare Express Likely DOA, Musk Is Building a Transit Tunnel in Las Vegas (Crain’s) Metra Is Boosting Summer Weekend Service on Rock Island, UP-Northwest Lines (Crusader) Woman, 34, Attacked and Robbed at the Jackson Red Line Station (ABC) Multi-Vehicle Crash Closed All NB Lanes of the Dan Ryan Yesterday (NBC) West Humboldt Is Getting […]

After Glenview Spends $505K in Lobbying, Pritzker Kills Hiawatha Expansion Plan (Urban Milwaukee) Active Trans Launches New Crash Support Website, Including Lawyers Vetted by Active Trans Due to Construction, NB Red Trains Will Run Express N. of Sheridan This Weekend (Sun-Times) Woman Sexually Assaulted at Kenosha Metra Station (Kenosha News) Uber May Bring Thousands of […]

State Rep. Marcus Evans, Jr. Introduces Bill to Lower In-city MED Fare to $2.50 (Tribune) Today’s Ride-Hail Strike (Tribune) Threatens to Reduce Crashes, Congestion, and Pollution Despite Protest, $9B Uber IPO Is Still  Moving Forward (Crain’s) Photos Released of Suspects in Argyle Station Shooting (Block Club) Ex-Cop Tries to Use Badge to Evade Responsibility for Humboldt […]

After 4 Pedestrian Killed in Niles, Mayor Asks Pritzker for Road Safety Help (Tribune) Driver Who Struck Uber Car, Killing Jamie Poulos, 23, Charged With Homicide, DUI (Tribune) After Arrests of Teens for Fighting, Assaults CPD Will Deploy More Officers at Stations (Sun-Times) Metra Trains Delayed Due to “Emergency Repairs” at Union Station (NBC) Red Line […]

Active Trans: (Watered-Down) Manor Greenway Adds to Emerging Chicago River Trail Elgin Legislators Support Funding Trails and Safe Streets (Active Trans) Police: Man Reports Being Beaten and Robbed by 20 People at Jackson Red Line Stop (WBBM) 32 People Hospitalized After Tanker Leaks Ammonia in Beach Park (Tribune) Indiana Man Says Cat Running Across Exit […]

Chicago Area Population Drops for the Fourth Straight Year (Tribune) State Releases $20M for New Auburn Gresham Stop, Construction Planned in 2020 (Sun-Times) Study: One Central, Including Transit Center, Will Generate $120B in Revenue (Curbed) Officer Struck at Fatal Motorcycle Crash Scene, Chase Ends in Naperville Collision (ABC) Up to 100 Car2go Vehicles Have Gone […]

City Council Approves $2B in TIF Money for Lincoln Yards, The 78 (Curbed) MPC’s Wennink Discusses How Lincoln Yards Will Affect Transportation (CBS) More Coverage of the Passage of the Divvy Expansion Deal (Sun-Times) CTA Calls Halsted Bus/Bike Lane Experiment a Success, Wants to Try It Elsewhere (Tribune) Man Hospitalized After Being Punched in the […]

The Yard Social Takes a Deep Dive Into Metra’s Station Evaluation Plan The Bloomingdale Trail, El Paseo, the Englewood Line, and Now The Kenwood Line? (Crain’s) Guards Are Stopping People for Biking on Riverwalk, Where It’s Still Legal to Bike (Chainlink) ABC Looks Back at 30 Years of Transportation Changes Micro-unit Apartments and Condos Are […]

State Chamber of Commerce Backs 25-Cent-a-Gallon Gas Tax Hike (Crain’s Chicago) Trooper Brooke Jones-Story, Struck Near Rockford, Was 2nd 2019 ISP Fatality, 15th Crash (CBS) After Girl, 11, Struck Near School, Riverside PD Chief Calls for Safety Infra (RB Landmark) Series of Robberies of People Leaving South Side Red Line Stations (NBC) Bike Walk Oak […]