Today’s Headlines
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By
Payton Chung
8:27 AM CST on December 16, 2014
- CDOT Reaches For “Low-Hanging Fruit” in Museum Campus Plan: Divvy, Shuttle Buses, Cabs (Crain’s)
- Updated Maps Show How Chicago Neighborhoods Commuted in 2013 (Transitized)
- Trib Readers Demand More Potties at Union Station (Tribune)
- Millennium Park Cycle Center Asks: Where Should We Build Next? (Chainlink)
- CTA, Pace, Metra Sign $5.4 Million Contract With Cubic For Ventra App (PRWeb)
- Kamin: “Meandering Pathways, Undulating Topography” Among Maggie Daley Park’s Charms (Tribune)
- No Drive-Thru Here: Even McDonald’s Opening Office in Transit-Rich River North (Crain’s)
- CTA Tests Out New Rat Poison (ABC)
- MTV’s “Real World” Says CTA “Really Easy to Work With,” Really Shows Off Divvy (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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