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Anything but a train: Lightfoot touts luxury ORD air taxi service instead of fixing Blue Line

By John Greenfield | Mar 25, 2023 | No Comments

Chicago politicians are generally more interested in using the latest (or theoretical) technology as an alternative to a mobility solution that's been around for decades in other countries: fast trains.

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Talking Headways Podcast: Fixing Mobility as a Service

By Jeff Wood | Mar 24, 2023 | No Comments

This week we’re joined by David Hensher, director of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at the University of Sydney. David chats about the failed concept of "Mobility as a Service."

Bike police patrolling River North during the George Floyd protests in May 2020. Photo: John Greenfield

Confirmed: Millennium Park bike station will now only serve cops instead of commuters

By John Greenfield | Mar 24, 2023 | No Comments

This news is surely not going to sit well with many local bike advocates, as well as police reform activists.

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Today’s Headlines for Friday, March 24

By John Greenfield | Mar 24, 2023 | No Comments

Biden budget may give CTA, Metra, Pace more flexibility in spending $350M each agency receives each year (Crain’s) 3 children arrested, hospitalized with minor injuries after crashing stolen car into another vehicle at 83rd/State (FOX) CPD: Officer was responding to a service call when SUV driver struck squad car at Wilson/Ashland (CBS) U. of Chicago […]

Gillman’s Ace Hardware. Photo: John Greenfield

Are online retail and COVID to blame for declining sales? Nah, it’s gotta be the bike lanes

By John Greenfield | Mar 23, 2023 | No Comments

Chicago magazine's Ted McClelland ran a piece looking at the issue of business owners scapegoating bike lanes for poor sales.

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Today’s Headlines for Thursday, March 23

By John Greenfield | Mar 23, 2023 | No Comments

Tickets, signs not stopping illegal parking in bike lanes where 2 cyclists killed, NW Siders say (Block Club) Chicago Mag looks into hardware store’s and pizzeria’s claims that protected bike lanes hurt their businesses Bernardita Libot, 72, killed by drunk driver while walking in Morton Grove, remembered as pillar of community (ABC) Man, 18, charged […]

The State / Lake station last Friday. Photo: John Greenfield

CTA ridership increased 24% last year, but better service is needed for continued growth

By John Greenfield | Mar 22, 2023 | No Comments

Unless the CTA can get its workforce back up to full strength, and return its scheduled and delivered service to pre-pandemic levels, this upward trend may not last.

Illinois Policy’s latest attack on speed cameras is the world’s silliest TikTok

By John Greenfield | Mar 22, 2023 | No Comments

This laughable video typical of the kind of mental gymnastics people who philosophically oppose automated enforcement make in order to argue it doesn't improve safety.

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Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, March 22

By John Greenfield | Mar 22, 2023 | No Comments

3-year Kennedy Expressway construction project, including closure of two southbound lanes, now underway (ABC) “Significant delays” expected on DuSable LSD through May for Obama Center road widening (Block Club) Woman, 78, killed, 6 injured, including 2 children, after teen driver struck another vehicle at Peterson/Kimball (NBC) 2 injured, 1 critically, after driver hit tree around […]

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What Parking Reform Means for People With Disabilities

By Kea Wilson | Mar 22, 2023 | No Comments

Practically every day, there’s a new headline about a new effort in a U.S. city to reform its auto-centric parking policies.