Women-only transportation helps to dismantle one of the barriers that women face daily, so it should be seriously considered in the Chicago and other U.S. cities.
A special arch added to the new Lincoln Village Pedestrian bridge made it compliant with the West Rogers Park Eruv, a ritual boundary around the heavily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood.
The possibility of transit cuts is now less of an immediate threat. But it's still important for local transit agencies to be transparent about what would be cut in the event that the federal funding runs out.