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Metra 2022 budget calls for new day pass, more wheelchair-accessible Chicago stations
Metra is cautiously optimistic that ridership will rebound in 2022 as it prepares to approve its budget for next year.
October 21, 2021
IDOT wants to strip parking for bike lanes. Merchants push back. Both sides are wrong.
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.
October 19, 2021
Driver fatally struck Mary Johnson, 82, in North Lawndale and left the scene
Johnson was the 18th person killed on foot on Chicago streets this year.
October 18, 2021
New Metra station proposed near Kinzie/Ashland, but it wouldn’t open until at least 2032
The new facility could potentially serve as a stop for all four Metra lines that currently run through the neighborhood.
October 14, 2021
Scooters now a permanent part of Chicago’s mobility mix, plus deets on Divvy scooters
The ordinance authorizes CDOT to amend its existing Divvy contract to expand to docked scooter-sharing within the bike-share station area.
October 14, 2021
Metra board approves $3.1M contract for rehab of Rock Island Line’s Vermont St. station
Hopefully the planned pedestrian upgrades will involve making it safer and easier to cross Vermont Avenue between the Rock Island and Metra Electric stations.
October 13, 2021
On eve of Council rental e-scooter vote, aldermen and reps push for permanent legalization
If the transportation committee passes the legislation on Wednesday. the ordinance will go before the City Council for a full vote on Thursday.
October 12, 2021
New developments highlight benefits, limitations of Chicago’s affordable housing approach
An updated, comprehensive effort to boost affordability, housing supply, and equitable transit-oriented development is the best approach for holding down rents and halting displacement across the city.
October 12, 2021
CTA bus driver fatally struck William Hiebel, 85, next to LFT’s Buena underpass
Although police described the victim as a pedestrian, a local resident told Streetsblog the senior was actually bicycling west from the underpass into the road when he was struck.
October 11, 2021
Prisca Reynoso-Benitez, 64, is 2nd person killed at same location on Devon in 9 years
The pedestrian fatality epidemic along Devon in Little India should be addressed with more stop signs, stoplights, and speed cameras.
October 10, 2021
