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Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, April 1
• WGN: "Chicago activating 16 new speed cameras [today] in effort to balance budget." That last part's accurate, but data shows the cams save lives.
April 1, 2025
After inaccurate claims by alders that speed cams are concentrated on South, West sides, these areas aren’t getting many of the 16 new ones
While there have been racial disparities in who is getting tickets for speeding, existing camera locations aren't to blame, but income-based fines are needed.
March 31, 2025
Today’s Headlines for Monday, March 31
• "Here's where 16 new speed cameras are being installed near Chicago schools and parks" with warning notices issued starting Tuesday (Sun-Times)
March 31, 2025
Ald. Vasquez discusses next steps for passing 25 mph law, and supports bringing back income-based fine discount, 10 mph ticketing threshold
Read the second half of this interview, including additional discussion of the 25 mph speed limit effort, the looming transit fiscal cliff, bikeways, and more here.
March 28, 2025
Today’s Headlines for Friday, March 28
• More coverage of the "doom or zoom" scenarios for local transit based on funding outcome, discussed at RTA board meeting (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX)
March 28, 2025
Dystopia or Utopia? Chicagoland transit officials discuss worst and best possible outcomes as we approach state funding deadline
Want to urge state legislators to properly fund Chicago-area transit during their spring 2025 session, so as to prevent drastic service cuts in 2026? The Active Transportation Alliance recommends going to the webpage "Support the Clean and Equitable Transportation Act!" to send letters to your state reps.
March 27, 2025
Today’s Headlines for Thursday, March 27
• CTA workers held 'day of action' Wednesday to raise awareness about potential for devastating cuts (NBC)
March 27, 2025
As many bricks-and-mortar bicycle retailers struggle to survive, a new social media-driven DIY bike shop model emerges
When the pandemic-induced bicycle boom went bust a couple of years ago, a number of long-established Chicago bike shops became casualties of the slowing market. From perennial institutions like Cycle Smithy and On the Route, to newer entrants like Earth Rider Cyclery, our city witnessed an unprecedented contraction in independent bike shops in the last few years.
March 26, 2025
Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, March 26
• Daily Herald: "Suburbs being 'silenced,' and a 'fragmented system that’s not working': Transit reform advocates far apart"
March 26, 2025
Turning (wheels) 54: Spending my birthday checking out the new 10-minute scheduled headways on the CTA’s #54 Cicero bus route
Earlier this month, the CTA announced it was launching a "Frequent Network for Buses," with runs scheduled to show up every 10 minutes or less, all day, seven days a week. The plan called for providing shorter headways (waits between runs) on 20 high-ridership bus lines by the end of 2025, with upgrades to four more routes each quarter.
March 26, 2025
