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• Chicago Transit Board approves CTA’s 2025 budget – more on SBC later today

As discussed during the Active Transportation Alliance's recent Chicago Advocate Connect session, they've partnered with the University of Illinois Chicago's Institute of Disability and Human Development on Project Sidewalk. This initiative to document the conditions of local sidewalks and bikeways is offering $300 stipends to 10 participants who will virtually move through city streets using Google Streetview, and document accessibility barriers. We asked ATA for some more details about the program.

• Giovanni Robinson, 24, one of six people injured in crash Sunday around 8:10 PM in 1400 block of Grove Ave. in North Chicago, has died (Tribune)

The Active Transportation Alliance's monthly Advocacy Connect zoom chat series gives Chicago and suburban residents a chance to get updates from local sustainable transportation professionals and advocates, and ask questions.

• Active Transportation Alliance Campaign Organizer W. Robert Schultz III inducted into Chicago’s LGBT Hall of Fame

Meanwhile, discussion of the neighborhood's El Paseo rails-to-trails proposal, shelved in 2022 by concerns it might speed up housing displacement, is starting again with a meeting this Wednesday.

• CTA in race for Red Line extension funding from feds before Trump takes office (Block Club)

Commenters also discussed agency consolidation, bus bunching, the CTA chatbot, and fleet electrification.

• The CTA’s Red Line extension and O’Hare Airport modernization will be at risk under Trump, senior mayoral adviser Jason Lee said (Sun-Times)