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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
Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, March 25
• Axios looks at RTA's doomsday prediction for local transit if state funding doesn't materialize. RTA board meeting Th. 3/27, 9 AM, 175 W. Jackson, 16th.
March 25, 2025
Some 100 people turned out for a ride to support CDOT’s proposal to swap parking for protected bike lanes on Clark in Uptown
Based on nameless op-eds in neighborhood news outlets, you might assume Uptown residents are dead-set against the Chicago Department of Transportation's proposal to extend the Clark Street protected bike lanes north into Uptown. I've nicknamed the project the "Uptown Extension."
March 24, 2025
Today’s Headlines for Monday, March 24
• SUV driver fatally struck woman, 70, Sunday around 8:25 PM on Rte. 176 near Fourth Avenue in Libertyville (ABC)
March 24, 2025
Pace studying potential express service on I-290/I-88 expressway corridor
Pace Suburban Bus service is asking riders and non-riders to weigh in on potential express service along highways that run through the western and northwest suburbs.
March 22, 2025
