Today’s Headlines for Friday, April 11
• "Demolition Underway To Make Room For Red Line Extension, Officials Say" at second "Meet the Contractor" meeting (Block Club)
April 11, 2025
Today’s Headlines for Thursday, April 10
• ATA: "State lawmakers must fully fund transit operations before it’s too late"
April 10, 2025
“My Interview With Andre,” the sequel. Additional discussion of 25 mph speed limit, fiscal cliff, bikeways, more with Ald. Vasquez
Read the previously published first portion of this interview, focusing on the 25 mph speed limit issue, here.
April 9, 2025
Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, April 9
• Steven Higashide: "Transportation Professionals Saw Elon Musk’s Lies and Disdain for the Public Firsthand: Just ask anyone in Chicago" (Streetsblog USA)
April 9, 2025
Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, April 8
• Letter from RTA Chief Kirk Dillard: "If the state would fund its mandates, the RTA wouldn’t be faced with such a fiscal crisis" (Tribune)
April 8, 2025
Yet more garbage “journalism” from Inside Publications NIMBY newspapers, this time falsely arguing PBLs are bad for bus riders
Streetsblog Chicago has fact-checked anti-bikeway articles from the local "Not In My Back Yard" neighborhood newspaper chain Inside Publications many, many times. Their publisher / editor Ronald Roenigk should make a donation to us for all the free publicity he's gotten.
April 8, 2025
Today’s Headlines for Monday, April 7
• "Massive Crowds March Downtown Against Trump, Musk At 'Hands Off' Protest," taking over the streets (Block Club)
April 7, 2025
Mapped: Here’s how to bike around the Kinzie to Chicago Ave. closure of the Milwaukee Avenue “Hipster Highway”
Milwaukee Avenue, the diagonal street that runs about 11 miles northwest-southeast between downtown and Superdawg Drive-In in the Norwood Park neighborhood, is Chicago's most important cycling street. It's got the highest ridership of any roadway in our city, and since it's the most direct route from the Loop to Wicker Park, Logan Square, and Avondale, some call it the "Hipster Highway."
April 4, 2025
Today’s Headlines for Friday, April 4
• Ford E450 truck driver fatally struck woman, 33, Wednesday around 8 PM near Delany/Sunset in north-suburban Gurnee (NBC)
April 4, 2025
Ald. Clay (46th) discussed transportation hot topics with SBC at ribbon-cutting for one of Divvy’s 100+ new charging stations
We talked about the Clark protected bike lane proposal in Uptown, the 25 mph speed limit campaign, and ideas to make traffic enforcement less regressive.
April 3, 2025
