Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, January 9
• Active Transportation Alliance: "Mayor Johnson should make 2024 the Year of the Bus"
January 9, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Monday, January 8
• Work on making the Logan Square traffic circle more people-friendly and adding a plaza next to the Blue Line stop will begin this spring (Block Club)
January 8, 2024
Streetsblog helped get a bogus “No Bikes” sign removed near Promontory Point, where drivers have been parking illegally
Sure, this wasn't one of Chicago's most urgent problems, but it's good that we were able to get a building to stop telling bike riders they can't park in front of the property.
January 7, 2024
Northern attitude: Riding the Yellow Line to Skokie 7 weeks after the route was shut down by a crash
If a disaster of this severity happened on a Chicagoland expressway, there's no way that the road would stay closed for two days, let alone nearly two months.
January 5, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Friday, January 5
• On Thursday, the day after CTA stated there was no timetable for reopening Yellow Line, resulting in fierce backlash, they announced it was reopening today
January 5, 2024
Ride like the Dickens! Take a virtual ride on the long-NIMBYed, now completed Dickens Greenway
In a move not previously mentioned by CDOT to Streetsblog, the route features more-or-less the first bike-centric traffic diverter installed in Chicago.
January 4, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Thursday, January 4
• CTA: No timetable for reopening of Yellow Line (NBC)
January 4, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, January 3
• Johnson: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is "sowing seeds of chaos" with migrant transportation (TRP)
January 3, 2024
CTAction: Free CTA service on New Year’s Eve “not quite as bad as last year,” still not great
While scheduled runs often didn't show up on time on New Year's Eve / Day, this year, most of them at least showed up. That's more than one could say a year ago.
January 2, 2024
CTA takes steps to help ensure free New Years Eve service won’t be terrible again this year
The grassroots transit advocacy group Commuters Take Action says they're "cautiously optimistic" about the CTA's NYE plan.
December 29, 2023
