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Metra Launching New Reverse Commute Service to Lake County Next Month
The extra runs are being bankrolled with help from Lake County municipalities and businesses.
February 20, 2019
CTA Extends Pullman Shuttle to Serve New Community Center, 5 Other Routes
The extension, which launches March 31, will nearly double the length of the #111A Pullman Shuttle Route.
February 19, 2019
Albany Park Aldermanic Hopefuls Share Their Visions for Transportation Equity
Candidates proposed reduced fares for low-income residents, bringing back cancelled bus routes, launching BRT, encouraging more TOD, and building protected bike lanes.
February 10, 2019
2-to-5-Lane Conversion “Road Binge” Planned for Franklin Park
The expansion is being justified with traffic projections that will be a self-fulfilling prophesy.
February 8, 2019
CDOT Assures Us They’re Not Seeking Federal Funding for the O’Hare Express
A CDOT rep says that the department's goal of getting the project in Chicago's regional plan is merely to facilitate the environmental review process.
February 4, 2019
CDOT Is Trying to Convince CMAP to Add the O’Hare Express to ON TO 2050
Adding Elon Musk's pipe dream to the regional plan would make the project potentially eligible to receive federal funds and approvals.
February 1, 2019
Lime Survey Tries to Sway Candidates’ Positions on Dockless Bikes, Scooters
Lime hopes that politicians who are friendly to dockless bike and scooter technology will help them to deploy a large number fo their devices citywide.
January 30, 2019
Candidates Weigh in on Solution for Improving the CTA at the Transit 4 All Forum
Participants included Gery Chico, LaShawn Ford, Susana Mendoza, Toni Preckwinkle, Paul Vallas, and Willie Wilson.
January 29, 2019
Party on 1/29 at Lagunitas Will Help Fund the Next Stage of Big Marsh’s Development
The campaign seeks to build the Southeast Side bike and nature space into a fully accessible 300-acre park with a perimeter trail, expanded singletrack, nine trails on the space's "Big Hill."
January 25, 2019
Glenview is Spending More Than Half a Million to Oppose Amtrak’s Hiawatha Expansion
Is it an understandable move, or just absurd NIMBYism?
January 22, 2019
