Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, June 23
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• “Police activity halts Metra Milwaukee District West trains near Elgin” (NBC)
• Word on the street is that “CDOT started removing [more of] the protection barriers along 18th and Wabash” yesterday. (Bluesky, Twitter)
• Block Club’s Quinn Meyers and Ariel Parrella-Aureli (a former SBC contributor) are spreading the good word that a recent CDOT report found bikeways don’t hurt businesses.
• “LIRR and Metra contracts ratified by BLET members” (Railway Supply)
• “CREATE partners prod key 75th Street Corridor projects along in Chicago” (Progressive Railroading)
• A Chicago, Bike Grid Now! ride marshal leads a Bike Ride to Baháʼí Temple, Saturday 6/27, leaving at 1 PM from Castaways at the North Avenue beach house
• Additional service on Union Pacific Northwest Line and Union Pacific West lines on Sunday 6/28 for Chicago’s 55th Annual Pride Parade (Metra)
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