Where do we go from here? Chicagoland experts and advocates weigh in on what the election means for sustainable transportation
Plus a discussion of how Project 2025, a right-wing blueprint for the second Trump administration, is likely to negatively impact federal transportation policy.
November 15, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Friday, November 15
• One year after Yellow Line crash, effects linger for riders, Skokie and CTA (Tribune)
November 15, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Thursday, November 14
• Chicago Transit Board approves CTA’s 2025 budget – more on SBC later today
November 14, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, November 13
• 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)
November 13, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, November 12
• Active Transportation Alliance Campaign Organizer W. Robert Schultz III inducted into Chicago’s LGBT Hall of Fame
November 12, 2024
Hit-and-run Jeep driver fatally struck man, 64, riding bike in Pilsen, 3rd Chicago bike death this year
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.
November 11, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Monday, November 11
• CTA in race for Red Line extension funding from feds before Trump takes office (Block Club)
November 11, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Friday, November 8
• 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)
November 8, 2024
Rochelle Jackson on why the North Lawndale Community Coordinating Council supports lowering the city’s default speed limit to 25 mph
(This post includes reporting by Cameron Bolton, with additional commentary by John Greenfield.)
November 7, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Thursday, November 7
• Driver fatally struck Rashid A. Shepard, 28, today around 12:30 AM in local SB lanes of Dan Ryan at 44th Street. Motorist suffered minor injuries. (ABC)
November 7, 2024