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Today’s Headlines for Monday, December 13

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  • CTA bus drivers took over Michigan Avenue to march for safer working conditions (CBS)
  • CBS looks at CPD efforts to curb violence on CTA – no mention of deploying Transit Ambassadors
  • 2 dead after driver crashes into a tree on the Lakefront Trail and vehicle bursts into flames (Tribune)
  • Police: Man charged after allegedly forcing CTA driver to steer bus off-route at gunpoint (WGN)
  • 12 injured, 1 critically in crash involving CTA bus in South Shore (WGN)
  • State police: Empty CTA bus returning to garage facility shot at on I-57 (CBS)
  • Chicago-based Veo will deploy 500 free-floating, e-assist bicycles in Seattle in the coming days (Seattle Times)

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– John Greenfield, co-editor, Streetsblog Chicago

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