Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Federal Policy

Rail Problem: House GOP Wants to Undermine Trains Exactly When We Need Them Most

By Aaron Short | May 25, 2023 | No Comments

The future of interstate rail travel is in jeopardy if the White House caves to House Republican spending cuts as part of the ongoing debt ceiling negotiations, advocates say.

Crossing Howard Street near the local community garden. Photo: RPBA

One Howard Street project kicks off Saturday. Here’s how to improve the corridor.

By Olivia Grenzebach | Apr 20, 2023 | No Comments

The goals of the project are somewhat undefined, but that's not necessarily a bad thing this early in the process.

A tactile bus sign on the #66 Chicago Avenue bus route. Photo: John Greenfield

Disability rights advocates applaud CTA’s expansion of tactile bus sign pilot

By Amber Drea | Apr 18, 2023 | No Comments

Since launching the program in August 2022 on the #22 Madison Street Route, the agency has installed 1,300 tactile signs at stops along 12 of the city’s bus lines.

An accessible pedestrian signal at Roscoe and Inner Lake Shore Drive. Photo: John Greenfield

Federal judge ruled that Chicago’s failure to install APS is discrimination against the blind

By Cameron Bolton | Apr 13, 2023 | No Comments

It's been a long and bumpy road, but it looks like Chicago is finally on its way to becoming an easier city for visually-impaired residents to navigate.

Mural at the Kenosha Union Pacific North Metra station. In the future, UP will no longer be providing conductors for Metra's UP lines. Photo: John Greenfield

The Metra-Union Pacific cold war is over. What does that mean for commuters?

By Igor Studenkov | Apr 7, 2023 | No Comments

Following Union Pacific Railroad's long, bitter stalemate with the Metra commuter rail system a peace treaty has been reached.

The four Chicagoland transit agencies discuss their next steps for averting the fiscal cliff

By Cameron Bolton and John Greenfield | Apr 3, 2023 | No Comments

Local leaders need to get serious about permanently reducing the farebox recovery ratio; finding new funding sources; and abolishing Rauner's collection fee ASAP.

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