Today’s Headlines for Friday, October 14
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8:58 AM CDT on October 14, 2016
- $30M in ITEP Grants Announced, Including Many Useful Bike/Ped Projects (Ride IL)
- Sign Active Trans Vision Zero Call to Action to Lobby City to Prevent Hit-and-Runs
- Medill Reports Looks at the Current Push to Prevent Bike Fatalities in Chicago
- Man Jumps on Car Hood to Stop Hit-and-Run Driver in Riverside (Tribune)
- Ex-Cop Charged With DUI: I Only Wanted to Taste the Eggnog (Tribune)
- Metra Board to Weigh Alternatives to 8.5% Fare Increase (Sun-Times)
- Chicago Attorney Files Suit Claiming Uber Discriminates Against the Disabled (Crain’s)
- Activists Take Over LSD to Protest Alleged Plan to Remove Uptown Tents (Tribune)
- LA Wonders Why Its Bike-Share Isn’t as Popular as Citibike and Divvy (LA Times)
- RedEye Publishes a Reader’s Pretty Good Poem About the CTA
- Leaders Debate the Transportation Lockbox Amendment 10/26 at YPT Chicago Social
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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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