Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, May 20
• “Many Metra riders with disabilities have been forced to reroute trips due to Monday’s closure of only elevator providing access to the MED at Millennium Station” (CBS)
• Man, 48, repeat felony offender charged after sheriff’s deputies saw him smoking blunt on 79th Station platform, searched him, and found loaded gun in his waistband (Fox)
• Former SBC co-editor, Better Streets co-founder Courtney Cobbs: “It took my bus an hour to go from Irving Park Road and Cicero Avenue to the Sheridan Red Line stop” (Tribune)
• …Another letter on traffic snarls caused by bridge closures, and Metra board member responds to editorial sympathizing with suffering Naperville car commuters (Tribune)
• “Editorial: Chicago, meet Stonepeak Partners. Stonepeak Partners meet a Chicago that’s ticked off about your big parking meter deal.” (Tribune)
• Another “Bizarro World” AI-generated transportation news “article” and “illustration” from Moovit (Bluesky, Twitter)
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