Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, June 8

  • IDOT’s Multiyear Transportation Plan Is Disappointingly Car-Focused (Active Trans)
  • Planning & Development Hosts Meeting to Discuss Future of N. Branch Corridor (Curbed)
  • $8.4 Million Ped Bridge Would Be Built as Part of a Bus Service Expansion on I-90 (Tribune)
  • Woman Killed in 4-Car Pileup After Driver Blows Red Light in Avondale (Tribune)
  • Metra Blames Amtrak for Monday Delays at Union Station (NBC)
  • Ramp Closures: A Great Reason to Use Green Transportation Instead of Driving Downtown (DNA)
  • Demolition Is Finally Starting for the Children’s Memorial Redevelopment (Curbed)
  • Metra May Have Accidentally Spread an Invasive Vine to the Burnham Nature Sanctuary (DNA)
  • Slow Roll’s Series of Rides Highlighting Community Bike Shops Meets at West Town Bikes Tonight

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  • Pat

    “Woman Killed in 4-Car Pileup After Driver Blows Red Light in Avondale”

    I think you meant to say ‘cyclist’ instead of ‘driver’, because as anecdotal evidence has shown time and time again, only cyclists blow through red lights.

  • Anne A

    Way to go Metra! Hacking down trees and helping to spread a northern equivalent of kudzu.