Today’s Headlines for Friday, March 24

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  • Biden budget may give CTA, Metra, Pace more flexibility in spending $350M each agency receives each year (Crain’s)
  • 3 children arrested, hospitalized with minor injuries after crashing stolen car into another vehicle at 83rd/State (FOX)
  • CPD: Officer was responding to a service call when SUV driver struck squad car at Wilson/Ashland (CBS)
  • U. of Chicago responds to increase in drivers striking pedestrians by… telling pedestrians to be more careful? (HPH)
  • LFT between 56th and 57th Streets temporarily closed due to CDOT Obama Center work, signed detour set up (Park District)
  • In 1897, Chicago introduced annual $1 bicycle license fee – which was nullified shortly thereafter (Outside)
  • Bracket competition for Chicago’s best ‘L’ line launched on Twitter

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Today’s Headlines for Thursday, March 23

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  • Tickets, signs not stopping illegal parking in bike lanes where 2 cyclists killed, NW Siders say (Block Club)
  • Chicago Mag looks into hardware store’s and pizzeria’s claims that protected bike lanes hurt their businesses
  • Bernardita Libot, 72, killed by drunk driver while walking in Morton Grove, remembered as pillar of community (ABC)
  • Man, 18, charged with reckless homicide for North Park crash that killed Zainab Subhoh, 78, injured 6 (ABC)
  • 3 injured, including 2 officers, after driver of possibly stolen car ran light at Pratt/Sheridan (WGN)
  • “It’s Nothing”: Mother of Madison Harrison, 14, killed in 12/21 head-on crash, unsatisfied with probation sentence (NBC)
  • Pace gets $1.92M federal grant that will help buy two electric buses for North Division in Waukegan
  • Chicago Board of Ed approved $4M contract for routing school buses and providing other services (Block Club)
  • Former SBC staffer Courtney Cobbs takes a bus journey with 5th Ward candidate Tina Hone (Active Trans)

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Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, March 22

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  • 3-year Kennedy Expressway construction project, including closure of two southbound lanes, now underway (ABC)
  • “Significant delays” expected on DuSable LSD through May for Obama Center road widening (Block Club)
  • Woman, 78, killed, 6 injured, including 2 children, after teen driver struck another vehicle at Peterson/Kimball (NBC)
  • 2 injured, 1 critically, after driver hit tree around midnight near Fullerton/Central in Belmont Cragin (ABC)
  • Woman, 46, stabbed another woman near eye with screwdriver during late-night fight at Forest Park terminal (FPR)
  • Letter: Smoking on the ‘L’ is a health hazard that discourages ridership, and could be easily addressed through more policing (Sun-Times)
  • Letter: Metra’s plan to switch to regional rail with more frequent non-rush service is a great idea (Tribune)
  • Cook County approves $5M for Metra’s $38M rehab of 95th/Cottage Grove station in Roseland (Connect CRE)
  • John argues that fixing potholes for drivers should be deprioritized in ward budgets in favor of walk/bike/transit projects (WBEZ)

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Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, March 21

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  • Driver in custody after fatally striking Bernadita Libot, 72, in 9200 block of Harlem in Morton Grove (CBS)
  • Teen driver fleeing police runs over Waukegan man who had been on hood of her car (ABC)
  • Allegedly drunk driver struck 3 vehicles in Yorkville, caused 4 drivers to veer into creek (NBC)
  • UP-NW service has resumed after being halted near Barrington due to track obstruction this morning (CBS)
  • Metra has started two-year $14.5M construction project at its Homewood Station (NWI Times)
  • U. of Chicago celebrates Pedestrian Safety Week by telling people to wave red flags to ask drivers not to hit them
  • On the third anniversary of COVID, Sun-Times runs gallery of streets emptied during Stay at Home

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