Today’s Headlines
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By
Payton Chung
8:46 AM CDT on October 13, 2014
- City Admits: Short Yellow Lights Still Triggered Red Light Cam Tickets, Spikes Still Unexplained (Trib)
- IG Report Can’t Explain RLC Spikes – Malfunctions Caused Some Dips, Though (Trib)
- New Stop at 79th/Gresham For Metra’s Rock Island Line Will Break Ground In 2016 (Southtown-Star)
- Man Charged In Hit-and-Run On Irving Park, Leaving Man Critically Injured (Sun-Times)
- 20+ Northwest Indiana Crosswalk “Beg Buttons” Vandalized, Stuck On Green (NWI Times)
- Tomorrow: Discuss Grant Park/Museum Campus Transit Ideas, Like New Rails (DNA)
- Water Main Work To Affect Washington/LaSalle Intersection Through Dec. (Sun-Times)
- Marathon Trainee Struck By Bicyclist: “They Could Divide” Crowded Lakefront Trail (Sun-Times)
- West Siders Hail Divvy Expansion Into Austin (AustinTalks)
- Chicago Ideas Week Kicks Off, Includes Look Inside CTA Bus Control Room (Colum Chronicle)
- Brewpub Next To Ravenswood Metra Will Offer Commuters Coffee, “Elevated Cuisine” (DNA)
- Kickstarter For Silly Transit Ads Funded (Fox 32)
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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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