Today’s Headlines for Monday, August 31

• 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)

Get national headlines at Streetsblog USA