“No one bikes in Chicago during the winter!” Nice turnout for the Churros and Chill Ride on the Dickens Greenway
Here's a quick "Eyes on the Street"-style gallery of today's event, which celebrated the completion of the controversial low-stress bike-ped route.
January 21, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Friday, January 19
• CTA: "Better Streets for Buses paves the way to equitable and innovative transit" – but ATA and Better Streets say more is needed (Intelligent Transport)
January 19, 2024
A Tale of Two News Outlets Part Two: Tribune publishes great and garbage pieces about Dickens Greenway
Transportation reporter Sarah Freishtat provides a balanced take on the Dickens controversy, but corporate lawyer William Choslovsky's anti-greenway op-ed is drivel.
January 18, 2024
A Tale of Two News Outlets, Part One: Dickens drama as NBC runs a NIMBY-friendly TV report about the greenway
NBC and the Tribune demonstrate the wrong and right ways to report on a controversial bike lane project like the Dickens Greenway.
January 17, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, January 17
• Hit-and-run driver killed pedestrian who was trying to cross Kennedy near Nagle Sunday near 9:15 AM (ABC)
January 17, 2024
Hit-and-run driver killed Vesmo Bernard Hanks, Jr., 25, who was reportedly fleeing a police stop on foot in Austin
Altogether, drivers fatally struck 30 pedestrians on Chicago streets in 2023.
January 16, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, January 16
• Red Line suspended on North Side; Purple, Yellow lines delayed due to mechanical issues (ABC)
January 16, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Friday, January 12
• ‘Wind-whipped,’ near-blizzard-like snow creating dangerous road conditions, cancelling flights, disrupting Yellow, UP-NW, DLSD bus lines (Tribune)
January 12, 2024
Driver struck and killed Samantha Marie Hutcherson, 25, on December 28 in Washington Heights
Hutcherson was the 29th person struck and killed while walking on Chicago streets in 2023.
January 11, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Thursday, January 11
• Presented without comment: CTA press release says "Customer surveys show increased satisfaction with CTA service"
January 11, 2024