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John Greenfield

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Chicago Policy

Lightfoot’s plan to spend $7.5M to pay people to burn gas narrowly passes City Council

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Bus Transit

A back door deal: Land transfer to facilitate driving to O’Hare from west is a bad investment

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Bicycling

Don’t pander to drivers with gas tax holidays and giveaways. Help them drive less instead.

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Justice is blind: Lawsuit to force Chicago to retrofit all stoplights with audible signals advances

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Beyond Chicagoland

Congressional reps to JB: Road expansion won’t solve traffic jams, will make inequities worse

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Chicago Auto Show producers sponsor contest that produces awful victim-blaming PSAs

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Denmark responded to 1973 oil crisis by reducing car-dependency. Let’s do that now.

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Nice: CTA gets $118M in operations funds, opportunity to apply for electrification cash

AJ LaTrace

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How my Chicago Auto Show tweets reignited the debate over unsafe vehicle design

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Advocates: RTA must overcome “bureaucratic anxiety,” prescribe bold action to save transit

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