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Over 100 people showed up to honor Sam Bell at ghost bike vigil on Milwaukee
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Bell, 44, was fatally struck while biking on September 8 at Milwaukee and Huron Street in River West, by an elderly driver who failed to yield while making a left turn.
Today’s Headlines for Friday, September 30
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How May Theilgaard Watts’ campaign for the Illinois Prairie Path launched the rails-to-trails movement (Grist) Person killed in 6-vehicle crash at Ogden/Gilbert in Western Springs (Sun-Times) Bike rider from Arlington Heights crash has died and was IDed as Sylwia Wagner Jarosz, 43, (ABC) Dominga Flores, 55, killed in car crash with carjacking suspects in Little […]
What’s going on with Divvy availability? Let’s look at the data.
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Over a roughly six-week period, at any given point about one in five stations has no "classic" bikes (the original blue non-electric cycles) for rent and one fifth of docked bikes were flagged as broken.
Study: Automatic Emergency Braking Systems Fail At Deadliest Crash Speeds
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The automatic emergency braking systems that will soon come standard on nearly all new cars don’t reliably prevent crashes at the higher speeds at which the overwhelming majority of roadway deaths occur.
A reckless left-turning driver killed Sylwia Wagner-Jarosz, 43, on bike in Arlington Heights
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All too often when drivers fail to yield to other road users when making making a left turn, the result is serious injuries or fatalities.
Today’s Headlines for Thursday, September 29
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John talks with ATA’s Jim Merrell about the group’s campaigns to fight car-dependency (Reader) CPD says Dominga Flores, 25, killed in crash with Chicago carjacking suspects on crime spree throughout SW Side (ABC) Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community: Wine bottle attack on Red Line part of pattern of anti-Asian violence (Block Club) GOP […]