Today’s Headlines

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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