Today’s Headlines
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By
Payton Chung
8:15 AM CDT on May 2, 2014
- Active Trans Applauds the Blue Cross/Divvy Deal
- CTA Closes $79 Million Federal TIFIA Loan For 95th Street Station (Metro Magazine)
- $1.07 Million ITEP Grant Bankrolls New Glenview Bike Paths (Tribune)
- Wrong-Way Driver Injures Four in High-Speed Lake Shore Drive Crash (Sun-Times)
- Downtown’s a No-Pedal Zone For Pedicabs (Medill News Video)
- Greg Hinz on Chicago’s Stakes in Transportation Reauthorization (Crain’s)
- Windswept Metra Installs Wind Detectors to Keep Trains On Time (Daily Herald)
- What to Do if You Get an “Insufficent Funds” Message While Using Ventra (Tattler)
- Chicago Velo Campus Starts Sunday Keirin Races (Facebook Event)
- Local Bike Bag Maker Pivots to Profit (Tribune Blue Sky)
- 17 Decorated Bikes to Highlight New Glen Ellyn Bike Plan (Tribune)
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Payton Chung is Editor at Large of Streetsblog USA. He first addressed a city council about smart growth in 1996, accidentally authored Chicago's inclusionary housing law, and sees the promises and perils of planning every day as a resident of "beautiful as well as sanitary" Washington, D.C.
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