Today’s Headlines for Friday, June 26
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• ATA: “After every fatal crash involving someone walking or biking, we contact the local alder w/ the question: How can we work together to prevent this from happening again?”
• Bridgeport resident and organizer of previous CBGN! actions Andrew Mack: “Chicago lacks the will to curb traffic crashes that kill cyclists, pedestrians” (Sun-Times)
• Divvy docks across from City Hall have been renamed “Riley O’Neil Memorial Station” in honor of fallen CDOT planner. Lyft says memorial stickers will remain. (Bluesky, Twitter)
• “Cook County Sheriff’s Police find 80-90% fare evasion on some CTA lines” (WGN)
• “Appeals court sides with Chicago Transit Authority in transgender bias case” (HRD)
• “CTA Pink Line celebrates 20-year anniversary with live music, vintage rail cars” (NBC)
• “Mayor’s $3 Billion Parking Meter Offer Was $800 Million More Than The Next Highest Bid, Investor Says” (Block Club)
• “Inside the Chicago Courier Classic, bike messenger culture refuses to die” (Reader)
• “Metra’s new [Buck Owens-esque] America 250 locomotive a tribute to ‘people working together'” (Tribune)
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