Today’s Headlines for Monday, December 13

• 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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