Make biking part of your plan to take on the challenges of a COVID-19 winter
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Cold-weather cycling is just one of the options for infectious disease expert-approved cold-weather fun available.
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We are all that wave-tossed Lakefront Trail cyclist
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Yesterday morning when big waves knocked a person off their bike on the Lakefront Trail and nearly dragged them into Lake Michigan, it was a symbol many things.
Free advice to Biden: Do yourself a favor and don’t hire Rahm Emanuel as USDOT chief
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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.
Leland Slow Street in 47th Ward ends Sunday, permanent greenway coming next year
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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.
Transit agencies discuss plans for possible “Armageddon” funding scenario
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“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."
Ald. Martin floated the idea of downtown congestion pricing during budget talks
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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.