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The CTA and CDOT have a toolbox of ideas to make bus service faster and more reliable. Will decision-makers be bold enough to let them follow through?

• It's official: The South Red Line Extension reportedly first promised in 1973, has been awarded a $1.973 billion federal grant (Crain's)

Participants seemed to do their part to keep interactions with drivers cordial, but there were bold incursions on expressways and Lower Wacker Drive.

The major challenge facing this proposal is that Chicagoland is currently facing a $730M transit fiscal cliff, but advocates say there are potential options to make it happen.

According to a coworker, Center was leaving the parking lot of a Jewel where he worked, when a driver leaving the adjacent Old Navy lot struck him.

• Rep. Kam Buckner talks with ex-Trib columnist Mary Wisniewski about the campaign to make DLSD more people-friendly, which IDOT rejected (Newcity)

Wide, multilane streets that encourage drivers to speed, plus wide turning radii and slip lanes that enable motorists to whip around corners , may have contributed to these crashes.

• RTA, ATA, Rep. Buckner and Ald. Manaa-Hoppenworth respond to blood-boiling decision to omit bus lanes from the North DLSD rebuild plan (Tribune)

Streetsblog Chicago readers are familiar with how last month sustainable transportation and environmental advocates joined forces with 14 forward-thinking alders. They called on the Chicago and Illinois transportation departments to halt plans to simply rebuild North DuSable Lake Shore Drive as an eight-lane highway, and instead make the lakefront more walk/bike/transit-friendly.