Today’s Headlines for Monday, July 31
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• A quick rundown of sustainable transportation projects in Chicago (ATA)
• Active Trans: People for Bikes' [deeply flawed] dismal ranking of Chicago is a motivation to lower speed limits, build protected lane network (Sun-Times)
• Laura Washington: CTA leaders are far removed from the realities of mass transit in Chicago (Tribune)
• CTA Red, Purple lines move to new tracks as part of modernization project (ABC)
• Woman on foot, 18, killed Saturday, 10:15 AM in in Grayslake when driver of pickup with trailer crashes with other motorist veers onto sidewalk (CBS)
• 6 hurt, including 3 kids, after a crash around 5 AM at 103rd/Doty (CBS)
• 2 injured in rollover crash on Eisenhower Expressway around 1:20 AM near Central as one driver veered into another's lane (FOX)
• St. Sabina children's choir bus struck by driver of stolen car Saturday near 79th/Vincennes, 4 armed car occupants fled (ABC)
• On Saturday Metra service at Ogilvie Center resumed with extensive delays after "police activity" (NBC)
• Chicago's landmark ETOD ordinance marks one-year anniversary (ATA)
• On the road across Iowa with RAGBRAI cyclists for 50th anniversary ride (Tribune)
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