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Sorry folks, Divvy memberships and single rides are about to get a little more expensive

By John Greenfield | Dec 1, 2020 | No Comments

On January 1 the price of annual full-price memberships will go up from the current $99 to $108. Single rides will also see a price hike, from $3 to $3.30.

Eliseo Mendoza, 86, killed in Little Village last Tuesday.

Hit and-run drivers killed pedestrians in Little Village, Chatham last week

By John Greenfield | Nov 30, 2020 | No Comments

31 pedestrians have died on Chicago streets so far in 2020.

Emanuel test rides a Divvy bike at Chicago's Daley Plaza. Photo: John Greenfield

Free advice to Biden: Do yourself a favor and don’t hire Rahm Emanuel as USDOT chief

By John Greenfield | Nov 30, 2020 | No Comments

Announcing Emanuel as your choice would almost certainly fill the streets of Chicago with hundreds or thousands of justifiably angry protesters. You really don't want to kick off your administration that way.

The Leland Slow Street. Photo: John Greenfield

Leland Slow Street in 47th Ward ends Sunday, permanent greenway coming next year

By John Greenfield | Nov 28, 2020 | No Comments

Let's raise a toast to the Leland Slow Street, which has helped make the COVID-19 lockdown a little more bearable for local residents and families.

The RTA board meeting was just like this, if you replace Ben Affleck, Bruce Willis & Liv Tyler with Dorval Carter, Jim Derwinski, and Rocky Donahue.

Transit agencies discuss plans for possible “Armageddon” funding scenario

By Igor Studenkov | Nov 25, 2020 | No Comments

“In the previous [2008] doomsday budget, our deficit was in the neighborhood of $100 million,” CTA president Dorval Carter said. “This is Armageddon-type stuff."

What if drivers had to pay a small fee to enter the loop, and we reinvested that money in transit? Image: Google Maps

Ald. Martin floated the idea of downtown congestion pricing during budget talks

By John Greenfield | Nov 24, 2020 | No Comments

Who knows, with enough political support for this idea to reduce congestion and pollution and plug the budget hole, maybe we can get congestion pricing approved in the 2022 budget.

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