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• RTA ED Leann Redden: "How the NITA Act will change transit capital programming in the future"
• "Crain’s reporter John Pletz discusses the public transportation overhaul with podcast host Amy Guth."
• "CTA suffers most violent attacks in decades as Trump threatens $50 million funding cut over crime" (Sun-Times)
• "How Chicago has grappled with crime on the CTA over the last 60 years" (Sun-Times)
• "Power outage, wire issues impact Metra train service at Millennium Station in the Loop" last Friday evening (ABC)
• A Musk-funded mural at Montrose/Western of Iryna Zarutska, 23, a Ukrainian refugee who was killed on transit, has been defaced. (Bluesky, Twitter)
• Car driver struck CTA bus and injured 20 people, 2 of them with serious-to-critical injuries, Friday around 4 PM at Pershing/King in Bronzeville (CBS)
• CPD: Male offender stabbed male victim in arm, side during argument on CTA bus, Saturday around 6:40 PM in 600 block of N. Ashland in West Town (CBS)
• Ashland BRT foe Roger Romanelli is at it again, with a protest against the GRand Avenue Safe Streets project in West Town on 3/5, 5 PM at Grand/Noble
• ...GRASSheads can join John on bike ride leaving Daley Plaza at 4:30 sharp to pass the protest on the way to Bike Grid's ride to Portage Park bikeway meeting
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