John Greenfield

Yesterday, the City Council's Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic discussed the installation of new speed cameras this year. At the beginning of this year, Earlier this year, Chicago had 162 existing speed cams ,and Mayor Brandon Johnson announced plans to install 50 more. Officials said about 40 additional cameras were requested by alderpersons; 23 of which have been installed so far in April and May; 11 locations are currently being designed and installed; and the remainder are still under consideration.

• High Speed Rail Alliance form to contact reps, noting that w/o more funding "Metra and the entire Chicago region’s transit system will be devastated."

• "CTA workers' union leaders say banned rider list isn't being sufficiently enforced" (CBS)

• This morning pedestrians were banned again from walking and hanging out on Lincoln Ave. There's talk of car-free Saturdays this summer. (Bluesky, Twitter)

Read Part 1: "Can automated enforcement, 25 mph speed limit be done equitably?" here.

• Out of 150 total respondents to our surveys on Twitter and Bluesky, roughly 2/3 want Illinois to allocate $1.5B to save transit with governance reforms

Read "Part 2: How do we convince residents and alders to support safer street designs?" here.

• Crain's: "Johnson faces pushback over [likely CTA president pick City of Chicago's COO John Roberson] as advocates push for broader search"

Good news for rail fans: Recently, Illinois legislators discussed a groundbreaking bill to launch statewide train service.

I'm confident that the generally car-centric folks on the Chicago Tribune editorial board deserved the spanking I gave them on Friday for their rather arrogant editorial about our region's looming $770 million total transit budget gap. "Chicago’s transit agencies want you to panic," the headline stated. "They don’t explain the whole truth."