Today’s Headlines

• Man on bike fatally struck by Pink Line train Wednesday around 5:47 PM, on 21st Place between 50th and 49th avenues, just west of Cicero station (NBC)

• Sun-Times: What happens when it's so cold in Chicago that CTA rails crack?

• Letter to Tribune from ATA's Amy Rynell: A 25 mph speed limit is a proven solution to lowering the risk of pedestrian deaths

• Sun-Times letters: Transit advocate and environmental policy analyst Nik Hunder lists Carter's downsides, another reader credits the CTA chief for trying

• CTA chief of staff Nora Leerhsen to become acting president after Dorval Carter’s retirement (Tribune, Sun-Times, WTTW, CBS, ABC)

• Chicago officials pitch $1.5 billion plan to fix transit woes (Bloomberg)

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• Active Transportation Alliance: Here's how to tell your alder we must lower Chicago's speed limit to 25 at Wednesday's full City Council vote

• Tribune editorial: "New York’s congestion tax is no model for Chicago"