Metra 2022 budget calls for new day pass, more wheelchair-accessible Chicago stations
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Metra is cautiously optimistic that ridership will rebound in 2022 as it prepares to approve its budget for next year.
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IDOT wants to strip parking for bike lanes. Merchants push back. Both sides are wrong.
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IDOT wants to strip parking on a short stretch of Busse Highway in Park Ridge to make way for bike lanes. Residents are pushing back. But a 4-to-3 conversion would be a better strategy.
Driver fatally struck Mary Johnson, 82, in North Lawndale and left the scene
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Johnson was the 18th person killed on foot on Chicago streets this year.
New Metra station proposed near Kinzie/Ashland, but it wouldn’t open until at least 2032
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The new facility could potentially serve as a stop for all four Metra lines that currently run through the neighborhood.
Scooters now a permanent part of Chicago’s mobility mix, plus deets on Divvy scooters
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The ordinance authorizes CDOT to amend its existing Divvy contract to expand to docked scooter-sharing within the bike-share station area.
Metra board approves $3.1M contract for rehab of Rock Island Line’s Vermont St. station
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Hopefully the planned pedestrian upgrades will involve making it safer and easier to cross Vermont Avenue between the Rock Island and Metra Electric stations.