Today’s Headlines
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9:14 AM CST on December 7, 2015
- CTA’s Senior Safety Advisor Resigns After Sending Sexually Explicit Emails (Tribune)
- Driver Fatally Strikes Cyclist, Injures Pedestrian in Lawndale (Tribune)
- Driver Critically Injures Man Who Had Stopped in Aurora to Refuel His Daughter’s Car (Tribune)
- Off-Duty Police Officer Dies After Crashing Car Into Median on 6000 Block of S. Cicero (Tribune)
- Police: At Least 3 Cabbies and Ride-Share Drivers Have Been Robbed in Austin Recently (DNA)
- Rail Advocates Call for Double-Tracking Amtrak’s Wolverine Route From Chicago to Detroit (SBT)
- CTA Disagrees With WalkScore’s Transit Ranking Methodology (Tribune)
- New Bus Service Added for Games at United Center (DNA)
- Active Trans Goes MythBusters on 3 Fallacies About Biking
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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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