Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, December 8

• Active Trans Looks at the New Federal Transportation Bill
• Lyft Line Carpool Service Launched in Chicago Yesterday (Tribune)
• Rather Than Carpool Lanes, IDOT Considers Tolled Low-Traffic Lanes on Expressways (Crain's)
• Hit-and-Run Driver Fatally Strikes Senior in Jefferson Park (Sun-Times)
• Lake Zurich Considers Adding Stoplight in Front of School Where Driver Killed Teen (Herald)
• After Speeding Driver Strikes Pole, Officers Rescue 3 From the Burning Wreck (Tribune)
• Secretary of State Looking Into the Possibility of Electronic Driver's Licenses (Illinois Policy)
• Need for Road Salt Melts Rauner's Resolve to Not Spend Money Without Budget Deal (Sun-Times)
• What Would Chicago Be Like if We Got Rid of All the Expressways? (BT&C)
• Biking West Out of the Loop Just Got Safer & Easier -- New Stoplight at Fulton/Halsted (DNA)
• Wicker Park Bystanders Knock Chrome Messenger Bag Thief From Here to Timbuk2 (DNA)

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