Today’s Headlines for Monday, July 13
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• A truly awful parallel. On 6/5 a driver “doored” Chicago planner Riley O’Neil, 35, while he was biking home from work, and he went under the wheel of a semi and died…
• On 7/9 a trucker struck and killed Boston planner Louisa Gag, 36, while she was cycling to work. (StreetsblogMass)
• “Court monitor dings city for lacking fully compliant accessible crosswalk signals for impaired pedestrians” (Sun-Times)
• Tribune letters: “E-motos, scooters should be regulated!” (They will be.) “It’s too pricey to park my car downtown after driving from Wilmette for Bike the Drive!” (Really?)
• “Metra and Union Pacific agree to station rents, but track contract remains elusive” (Evanston Roundtable)
• “West Loop TIF funds to back infrastructure around Chicago Fire FC stadium” including a a 1,220-space, publicly-owned parking garage (Crain’s)
• “Federal Funding Cuts For Permanent Housing Could Leave More Chicagoans On The Streets” (Block Club)
• “Edward Keegan: A new Goldilocks urban apartment building for South Chicago” (Tribune)
• Chicago 2100 Urbanism has the perfect rebuttal to the refrain “Why is Chicago spending all that money on protected bike lanes? I never see anybody using them.”
• Equiticity is promoting The State of Equity: A Mayors Transportation Roundtable on 8/25, and “The State of Equity: Justice in Motion” 9/18-9/19
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