Today’s Headlines for Friday, December 22
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9:32 AM CST on December 22, 2017
- To Improve Bus Service, We Need a Local Dedicated Funding Source for Transit (Active Trans)
- …And to Make Bus Lanes Work Well, We Need to Get Creative With Enforcement (Active Trans)
- A Recap of Last Week’s Mayor’s Bicycle Advisory Council Meeting (Active Trans)
- Prosecutors: Man Charged in DUI Crash That Killed 2 Had Phone Open to Social Media (Tribune)
- Man Goes on Pink Line Tracks to Get Skateboard, Is Truck by Train, Walks to Ambulance (CBS)
- Woman Uses Kennedy Overpass as a Platform for Her Political Opinions (CBS)
- Chicago Reader Readers Also Hate Traffic Cams, the #22 Clark Bus, and the MiCA TOD Towers
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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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