Today’s Headlines for Monday, August 31
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9:03 AM CDT on August 31, 2015
- Active Trans: Voice Support for Safer Streets & More Transit at This Week’s Budget Hearings
- CDOT Begins Installing Loop Link Bus Shelters (Curbed)
- RTA Chair: Raise the Gas Tax to Better Fund Transit (Sun-Times)
- As Long as Yellow Line Is Down, CTA Will Keep on Truckin’ Rail Cars to Repair Center (Tribune)
- Developer Is Suing Over Chicago’s New Affordable Housing Ordinance (Crain’s)
- Witnesses: Police Arrested Teen for Sidewalk Biking — After He Recited Anti-Cop Rap (DNA)
- Ride-Share Isn’t Just Hurting Cabbies, It’s Killing the Medallion Market (Crains)
- Orland Park School District May Fire New Bus Company Due to Bad Drivers (Tribune)
- Amtrak Is Testing Roll-On Service Between Chicago & Washington, D.C. (Post-Gazette)
- Lots of Info About the Wabash Lights Placemaking Proposal (Daily Dot)
- But Does His Bicycle Fly? Rahm Portrayed as E.T. on New Bloomingdale Trail Mural (DNA)
- Meeting This Wednesday on Improving Safety at Ridge/Touhy/Rogers (DNA)
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In addition to editing Streetsblog Chicago, John has written about transportation and more for many other local and national publications. A Chicagoan since 1989, he enjoys exploring the city and region on foot, bike, bus, and train.
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