Today’s Headlines

• 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"

• Could congestion pricing help ease Chicago traffic? (WGN)

• Nice! "Chicago ‘Should Explore’ Congestion Tax To Reduce Traffic, Mayor Says" (Block Club)

• Illinois Answers Project / Block Club looks at how lower speed limits have worked in NYC, Boston, Seattle and Portland, plus San Francisco and Los Angeles

• WTTW: "Black, Latino and Older Chicagoans More Likely to Die in Traffic Crashes, Data Shows"

• Ald. Vasquez: Why is Mayor Johnson putting so much time, energy, money into firing his CPS chief, but protecting embattled CTA chief Dorval Carter?