Today’s Headlines for Thursday, May 28
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• “9 hospitalized after sedan driver runs red light, causes crash involving 2 CTA buses” Wed. around 6:42 PM on 3100 block of W. Lake on East Garfield Park (NBC)
• Metra’s service increase on the RID Line, including 4 more late-day trips on weekdays and 18 more trips on weekends, is required by a new transit law (Sun-Times)
• Chicagoans Who Bike’s Viktor Köves (an SBC sponsor) says the preview for their Archer Avenue traffic safety project video reached 5,000 accounts on Instagram
• A.J. Manaseer, who gave $1K to bike ed centers after losing a bet to SBC, correctly noted that another 2024 article (he reviewed before publication) had a minor math error
• Chicago Critical Mass ride this Friday 5/29, gathering after 5:30 PM, leaving after 6, at Daley Plaza, 50 W. Washington
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