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Lori’s fair ride-hail tax plan needs bolder action to improve CTA bus service
Lowering the tax on shared trips, the kind most South and West siders take, is a good idea. But more of the revenue should be used for CTA upgrades, including more robust bus lanes.
November 13, 2019
That misleading Crain’s op-ed by Uber proxies against the fair ride-hail tax plan, annotated
Claiming that all Uber and Lyft passengers would see a 300% tax increase was just one of the many false or misleading statements in the piece.
November 11, 2019
How Lori’s Uber and Lyft tax plan will help lower-income and working-class Chicagoans
The ride-hail companies are trying to convince Chicagoans that the new fee structure would hurt poor people, but actually the opposite is true.
November 10, 2019
A vision beyond Uber: We don’t need to plan our transportation system around cars
There is power in movement and we aren’t reaching our full potential when we keep shaping our world around cars.
November 7, 2019
No, Lori’s plan to make private ride-hail trips more expensive isn’t regressive
Ride-hailing slows down buses and cannibalizes CTA ridership. Reducing private trips while making shared trips cheaper will benefit South and West side residents, who mostly use shared trips.
November 5, 2019
Lori doubles down on her resistance to frequent, affordable South Side Metra
It's time for the mayor to set aside petty territorial concerns, and get the Metra deal done.
October 29, 2019
Police stop stats are more evidence that Black residents have less mobility freedom
Following a 2015 agreement between the city of Chicago and the ACLU, the number of investigatory stops have plummeted, but 72 percent of cases still involved African American subjects.
October 29, 2019
Mayor Lightfoot wants to jack up the price of ride-hailing trips, and that’s a very good thing
Some of the revenue will be used to help fund transit, including an initiative to speed up neighborhood bus service.
October 18, 2019
Logan affordable TOD got key approvals, flack from NIMBYs, at Plan Commission hearing
While opponents said the land would be more valuable as a parking lot or a market-rate development, proponents stressed the value of keeping Logan Square economiclly diverse.
October 17, 2019
Most meeting attendees opposed King’s plan to turn Drexel bikeways into car parking
Less than a year ago CDOT moved the Drexel bike lanes next to the grassy median to make them safer. Now Alderman Sophia King is proposing to move them back and create new parking lanes by the median.
October 17, 2019
