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Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, April 13
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City deploys barricades, trucks in preparation for potential unrest over police shootings (Block Club) Block-by-block analysis of where North Michigan stands after impact of pandemic, unrest (Tribune) CDOT seeking station location input for West and Southwest side Divvy expansion (Block Club) Bus driver fatally struck Agata Gorz, 42, in Palos Heights (Sun-Times) After driver strikes […]
You can ask lawmakers to eliminate 20% local match requirement for walk/bike infra
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File a witness slip online by Tuesday afternoon to make your voice heard.
Trib’s Steve Chapman: Transit use is down right now, so we should never invest in it again
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In the bizarro world of the the right-leaning Chicago Tribune, the lessons of the pandemic are that we should instead be putting more focus on car-based transportation.
Today’s Headlines for Monday, April 12
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Anti-transit lobbying group decries One Central transit hub plan as a wasteful boondoggle (Tribune) Metra adding more trains as people start returning to office, but roll toward normalcy is slow (CBS) Woman killed after wrong-way pickup driver crashes into her vehicle near Oak Park (Tribune) 7 injured, including 2 children, in multicar crash in Englewood […]
Firing of cops who shot Ariel Roman on CTA would be a step in the right direction
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The Ariel Roman case starkly shows that police enforcement of minor rule-breaking is the wrong approach.
DOJ lights a fire under Chicago officials to speed up accessible pedestrian signal installation
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On Thursday the U.S. Department of Justice moved to intervene in a private disability discrimination suit against the city.