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Talking Headways Podcast: One Year of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act

By Jeff Wood | Dec 2, 2022 | No Comments

This week, we’re joined once again by Stephanie Gidigbi Jenkins and Helen Chin to talk about the one-year anniversary of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

A Loyola-branded Red Line at the Wilson station in Uptown. Photo: John Greenfield

What kind of CTA rider are you, a planner or laissez-faire?

By John Greenfield | Dec 2, 2022 | No Comments

Do you use (often unreliable) Transit Trackers and apps to get predictions of when buses, trains will arrive and plan your trip accordingly, or do you just show up?

Today’s Headlines for Friday, December 2

By John Greenfield | Dec 2, 2022 | No Comments

Metra riders discuss the potential rail strike that could disrupt their commutes (ABC) Male driver fatally shot in chest in 7500 block of S. Eberhart, causing 4-car crash that injured a female driver (WGN) Suspect charged with pushing man 28, off Division Blue platform, causing injury, several officers hurt while making arrest (CBS) Miraculous: UPS […]

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That Viral NY Times Article on Road Death Was Only the Tip of the Iceberg

By Kea Wilson | Dec 1, 2022 | No Comments

The New York Times jumped into the ongoing conversation about why American road deaths are so rapidly outpacing the rest of the industrialized world — but the scratch-the-surface approach left a lot of causes and solutions on the table.

Pace board chair Rick Kwasneski, Congressional rep Sean Casten, Pace board member Tom Marcucci, Pace executive director Melinda Metzger, Metra board member Wes Becton, Metra CEO James Derwinski, and Metra board member Stephen Palmer. Photo: Pace

Electric reveal: Pace’s first-ever e-bus is ready for its closeup

By John Greenfield | Dec 1, 2022 | No Comments

Chicagoland reached a small milestone in bus electrification on Wednesday as Pace heralded the purchase of its first all-electric bus.

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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.