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Get on the bus! Advocates and organizations urge Mayor Johnson to take action to save the Greyhound Terminal
According to the letter, rehabbing the station would cost less that $40M, a small fraction of the price tag of many other local transportation projects.
Proposed Archer, Kedzie upgrades would be a big step forward to improve traffic safety on the Southwest Side
The planned improvements include a 4-to-3 road diet and slip lane removals on Archer, protected bike lanes, pedestrian upgrades, and bus boarding islands.
We are all in the underperforming Chicagoland transit network. But some of us are looking at the Star:Line.
According to Star:Line Chicago, "The 2034sight Plan is an ambitious — and achievable — ten-year framework to lay the groundwork to modernize Chicagoland’s existing local passenger rail system."
A semi driver fatally struck a person walking on Lower Wacker Drive. Did a locked gate contribute to the crash?
The victim may have been walking in the street because a gate limiting pedestrian access on the south side of Wacker was locked at the time.
This is Grand! CDOT cuts ribbon on new protected bike lanes on a key West Side diagonal street
The project also has lots of other nifty Complete Streets features, like raised crosswalks, bus islands, and the conversion of a dangerous slip lane to a new plaza.
July CTA board meeting touches on public safety, union issues, creating a transit-friendly DLSD
A board member asked for assurance that the CPD's focus on the upcoming DNC at the United Center won't make transit less safe in the rest of the city.
Rampaging driver fatally struck friendly, helpful neighbor Steven Moore, 63, Saturday in Roseland
Transit planning guru Jarrett Walker discusses CTA and Pace challenges, and the agency consolidation question
Walker, a consultant with the two systems, talks about how to improve service. He won't "disagree with their managements in public," but says he's genuinely against the proposed merger.
Southwest Collective leads monthly bike rides to highlight every park in the area near Midway Airport
Streetsblog showed up for Saturday's ride from Nottingham Park in Clearing. The group's goal is to improve walk/bike/transit conditions and build camaraderie.
FOIAed letter shows Ald. Hopkins asked CDOT to scrape out dashed bike lanes from Dearborn in posh Gold Coast
The alder says constituents in this affluent neighborhood feel the new street layout is "very problematic and unsafe", but the same configuration has worked fine in other communities.
