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Today’s Headlines for Thursday, December 1

By John Greenfield | Dec 1, 2022 | No Comments

Marquette Greenway Trail Project now has $5.6M needed for remaining Michigan portion of route (Crain’s) Driver, 49, fatally shot Monday afternoon, 2 injured in resulting car crash on 400 block of West 87th (ABC) Charges dismissed against wrong-way driver who killed teacher Allan Nunez, 32, on motorcycle, civil suit filed (FOX) Housing costs in East […]

DuSable LSD at Belmont Harbor. Image: Google Earth

City Nerd calls DuSable LSD the worst waterfront highway in North America

By John Greenfield | Nov 30, 2022 | No Comments

It's about time we stop letting our massive lakefront highway serve as a national embarrassment for Chicago.

Jane Brunson in front of Payton High. Photo: Sam Brunson

After drivers struck his daughter on a bike twice, dad demands safe routes to school

By John Greenfield | Nov 30, 2022 | No Comments

If a reckless driver nearly injured your loved one on a bike, you'd be angry. If the same thing happened again in an almost identical manner, you'd be enraged.

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Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, November 30

By John Greenfield | Nov 30, 2022 | No Comments

Buttigieg discusses Chicagoland bike issues, including need for truck side guards to prevent crash deaths (Axios) Driver hospitalized after inbound Rock Island Metra train struck car in Midlothian (NBC) 2 officers hospitalized after collision with Jeep driver at 16th and State (CBS) Lawsuit filed against drunk trucker who injured 16 St. Ignatius hockey players and […]

CTA Rail Lines and Average Greenhouse Gas Emissions per Household (equivalent to Metric Tons of CO2/year.) Higher emissions are in red, lower emissions are in green. Image: University of California at Berkeley and Richard Day

Chicago’s climate superpower: How transit-oriented development can help address global warming

By Richard Day | Nov 29, 2022 | No Comments

As shown in this map, Chicago’s land use policies have a major impact on our greenhouse gas emissions.

A Metra Union Pacific North train at Ravenswood station. Photo: John Greenfield

Congress poised to head off potential Metra-disrupting rail strike, impose contract terms

By Igor Studenkov | Nov 29, 2022 | No Comments

The U.S. Congress is poised to pass a law that would avert the railroad labor unions strike that would otherwise begin as soon as December 9.

The aftermath of Wednesday's crash. Photo: Chicago Fire Department

To prevent tragic crashes, street redesign is more effective than calls for personal responsibility

By John Greenfield | Nov 28, 2022 | No Comments

While Mayor Lightfoot called for personal responsibility in the wake of a deadly seven-car pileup in Chatham, a road diet would be the most effective way to prevent future tragedies.

The 63rd Street Red Line station. One of SBC's key current campaigns is to push for a Transit TIF to help fund the extension of the Red Line to the Far South Side. Photo: John Greenfield

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By John Greenfield | Nov 28, 2022 | No Comments

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Today’s Headlines for Monday, November 28

By John Greenfield | Nov 28, 2022 | No Comments

Transit consultant Ed Zotti: Red Line extension is too expensive and we should upgrade MED instead (Crain’s) Decades after Racine Green Line station closed, Englewood activists renew push to reopen it (Sun-Times) Wrong-way driver slams into several cars at 87th/Cottage Grove, killing self and passenger and injuring 16 bystanders (CNN) SUV driver, 71, veers off […]