Today’s Headlines for Thursday, May 1

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• From the generally car-centric Tribune editorial board: “Chicago’s transit agencies want you to panic. They don’t explain the whole truth.”

• RTA Chair Kirk Dillard’s: “Warning riders and lawmakers about an impending fiscal cliff isn’t ‘panic-stoking’ — it’s responsible leadership.” (Tribune)

• Video: “Paris [Schultz] on Politics: Metra/CTA/Pace face $770M shortfall, but is a deal close?” (FOX)

• Hit-and-run driver fatally struck male early Thursday morning in the 2900 block of Shermer Road in Northbrook (NBC)

• On 5/3-4 and 5/10-11, Metra MED riders will be bussed between Millennium and 18th stations due to construction for South Shore Line expansion (Tribune)

• ABC: “Lincoln Square construction impacts businesses, spurs conversation for more pedestrian-only areas“

• Environmental lawyer: “Op-ed by John Holden against upzoning Broadway contains misleading claim his opposition is ‘environmentally friendly'” (Tribune)

• Block Club: “Uber Wrongfully Charged Riders Downtown Congestion Fee For Months”

• “Gravel-Bike the Rolling Hills of the Driftless“? That’s not an Amtrak-friendly road trip – yet. (Chicago Magazine)

• Last chance to register for 2025 Illinois Bike & Walk Summit, 5/7-8 at Bank of Springfield Center

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