Today’s Headlines for Thursday, October 1
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• “A woman, 65, and a man, 57, were both on a bus in the 300 block of West 63rd Street at 4:40 p.m. when they were wounded [by gunfire], police said.” (Sun-Times)
• City of Chicago, NITA, CTA, IDOT say bus lanes will be installed on Michigan from Roosevelt to Wacker within days, and enforced with cameras.
• …That’s basically an idea Streetsblog has been proposing for many years: “What’s keeping us from converting some of the many lanes on Michigan to transit and bike lanes?”
• “Editorial: Chicago considers charging suburbanites more to park. How neighborly.” (Tribune)
• Blackstone Bicycle Works hosted the Chicago Youth Bike Summit (Hyde Park Herald)
• “Douglass Park Reopens As Riot Fest Clears Out, With Renovation Of Muddy Fields Underway” (Block Club)
• “A better plan for growth: Aldermen Yancy and Mosely take a creative and ambitious new approach” (A City That Works)
• Bike Grid hosts Marshal Training: School bike Bus Edition, Sunday 10/4, 10-11:30 AM at Lakeview High, Belle Plaine and Greenview
• Active Trans and Ride Illinois host Suburban Advocacy Connect Zoom discussion on Week Without Driving, featuring Nondrivers Alliance’s Ruth Rosas, a SBC contributor
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