Today’s Headlines for Monday, May 4
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• Better Streets on Tribune’s Archer op-ed: “The Editorial Board needs to stop being shills for the automotive and fossil fuel industries” by defending deadly, car-centric road layouts
• Streetsblog: We should make it impossible to buy SUVs with deadly designs. Tribune: We should make it easier to buy SUVs!
• Letter: “My wife and I were aboard the Yellow Line train that derailed. CTA management failed us.” (Tribune)
• “Chicago police seeking to identify 6 suspects in violent robbery on CTA bus in Washington Park” 4/9 at 58th/King in Washington Park (CBS)
• Once again, it was necessary to debunk the old cliche, ‘It’s hypocritical for people who ride bikes to simultaneously push for safer streets and oppose helmet laws.’
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– John Greenfield, editor
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