Today’s Headlines for Friday, October 9
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By
Steven Vance
9:04 AM CDT on October 9, 2015
- Opinion: Think Cyclists Are Jerks? Everyone on the Street’s a Jerk (CBS2)
- Budget Hearing 1: Far South Side Aldermen Want Divvy (DNA)
- Number of New Workers in Chicago Equaled the Growth in People Using Active Transportation (MPC)
- Budget Hearing 2: Ald. Reilly Doubts CDOT-Active Trans Partnership While Others Defend It (DNA)
- Ald. Reilly Proposes Traffic Cams to Ticket Drivers Who “Block the Box” (DNA)
- Uber/Lyft is Unfair to Taxi Drivers, Who’ve Played by Government Rules (Tribune)
- Thursday’s Taxi Driver Strike Had No Impact at Chicago Airports (Crain’s)
- Uber is Bad for Uber Drivers…So They Should Join Taxi Drivers in Protest (Reader)
- Uber Says on Radio Ads That It Serves South and West Side Residents Better than Cabbies (Politico)
- Video: Construction Work on Fourth Riverwalk Section Drops a Cage in the River
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