Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, June 22
• Boy, 14, on “e-moto” killed in crash with female SUV driver, 44, Tuesday around 10 PM on 500 block of North Main in Wauconda, no charges filed. (News-Sun)
• …He was 3rd youth to die in an e-moto crash in suburbs recently, including Samuel Alfaro, 17, September in Arlington Heights, and Luis Toaquiza, 19, June in Franklin Park
• “Family of Elgin snowplow operator killed by freight train in Naperville sues Metra” (Naperville Sun)
• CPD releases image of person accused of robbing Red Line passenger 7/8 around 12:45 AM near 69th Station (CBS)
• Right-leaning Illinois policy: “Combating fare evasion could help lagging CTA ridership.” Is this a case of the Broken Clock Rule? (Free transit proponents would disagree.)
• …Last week: “CTA Innovation Studio Announces New Challenge to Test Faregate Technology”
• “Roselle mayor gets ‘a seat at the table’ on powerful new transit board” (Daily Herald)
• Abundant Housing members, including SBC contributor Ellen Steinke: “Opinion: Why is Chicago using prime transit land for warehouses, parking lots and utilities?” (Crain’s)
• New map, who is this? (Bike Lane Uprising)
• “How to request a bike rack in Chicago” (WGN)
• “The West Side caught the train: Inside the viral CTA experience bringing Chicago together” (Austin Weekly)
• Chicagoan Jonny Nelson of the VLOG EAT DRINK BIKE tries to experience urban cycling Nirvana in Seattle (Seattle Bike Blog)
• “Metra celebrates 100th anniversary of electrification of south suburban service” with vintage cars Thursday afternoon at Millennium Station (NBC)
• Open house on Metra Clybourn Station Feasibility Study, Thu. 7/23, 5:30 – 7:30 PM at Holstein Park fieldhouse, 2200 N. Oakley Avenue (Active Trans)
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