Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Roscoe Village Bikes

Aldermen want Metra upgrades in their wards before approving $850K for W. Loop (Sun-Times) ATA applauds RTA decision to focus federal transit stimulus funds on high-need areas With tevised $20B One Central plan, including transit hub, developer hopes to win over neighbors (Tribune) Prosecutors: Driver who killed Cire Robinson, 12, in Vittum Park was nearly […]

ATA’s Rynell: Let’s make pandemic Open Streets initiatives a permanent feature in all nabes (Tribune) City’s new Fulton Market plan includes bike lanes on Hubbard (Block Club) Driver injures man who stopped to help another motorist on Lake Shore Drive in Gold Coast (Sun-Times) Carjackers shoot at CTA worker in employee lot while stealing car, […]

How the Democrats’ infra spending plan could benefit Chicago and Illinois (Crain’s) Updates on Lincoln Yards infra plans during a rare public meeting on the development (Block Club) FTA chips in $173M for second set of South Shore Line tracks from Gary to Michigan City (Tribune) Something to look forward to: Damen Green stop will […]

CTA announces disposable mask dispensers to be added to some Chicago buses (ABC) Churro Waffle family mourns Giovanny Bucio and aunt Araceli Gutierrez, killed in Gage park (Block Club) Evanston’s Main St. corridor is slated for pedestrian improvements (Evanston Roundtable) The city’s Shared Cost Sidewalk Program opens to applications on 1/11 (Block Club) Forty Acres, […]

COVID bill includes $14B for transit, Amtrak, airports — advocates wanted $32B for transit (Tribune) More coverage of ATA’s panel on preventing transit service cuts RTA approved 2021 budgets, capital programs for regional transit (Progressive Railroading) Police: Driver killed in Heart of Chicago rollover crash after running red (Sun-Times) Naperville’s Metra lots are mostly empty. […]

Nearly 900 CTA workers have had COVID-19; 18 of them drove the busy No. 79 or No. 49 bus routes (Sun-Times) Obviously satire: article claiming the ‘L’ is now serving all parts of town (Chicago Genius) Driver kills senior walking in Geneva, blames sunlight in his eyes (Tribune) SUV, semi-truck driver involved in violent crash […]

ATA asks members to lobby Congress to include transit funding in new stimulus package Former USDOT chief Ray LaHood puts in a good word for his friend Rahm Emanuel (Politico) Man stabbed in chest on State/Lake Red Line platform early Thursday morning (ABC) Driver charged with killing pedestrian, 29, in Franklin Park hit-and-run (Tribune) No, […]

Ald. Rodriguez-Sanchez blasts idea of Rahm for USDOT chief, notes O’Hare Express debacle (Jacobin) 60 protesters sue city, alleging CPD abused them “without justification” at summer protests (Block Club) Driver was allegedly high and doing 80 mph when he killed cyclist Troy Young, 41, in Lombard (Sun-Times) Plan Commission approves Bridgeport Amazon warehouse despite community […]

Rahm had a good record on transportation — should he be USDOT chief? (No.) (Chicago Mag) How government and private industry let Madison St. in Garfield Park crumble (Block Club) More information needed about airflow on Chicagoland buses and trains (ATA) Some city officials urge ‘s little flexibility’ on COVID restrictions to support businesses (Block […]

National Lawyers Guild of Chicago speaks out against transit shutdowns (ATA) Right-wing Illinois Policy looks at proposal to ticket drivers doing 36 in 30 zones 3 dead, including baby, in Will County crash (Sun-Times) Driver dies after crossing center line, striking another vehicle in Waukegan (Tribune) Attacker shot CTA bus driver with paintball gun in […]

Reilly: Let’s review contract with J.D. Decaux, including $100K bus shelter relocation fee (Sun-Times) Better Streets notes that rebuilding LSD without bus lanes would be a missed opportunity (CBS) Woman killed, 8-year-old boy seriously injured in crash on Eisenhower (WGN) Driver critically injures woman walking, 33, then strikes pole in South Shore (Tribune) Community rallies […]