Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Total Charters

Women Killed When Sheriff’s Deputy Struck Their Car Were Sisters Returning From Work (Tribune) Police Chase After Attempted Traffic Stop Ends With Crash at Sox Park (ABC) New BNSF Schedule Forces Riverside Parents to Adjust School Drop-off Routine (Landmark) TOD With 117 Units, No On-Site Parking, Planned Next to Congress Theater (Curbed) Prosthetics Give a […]

Driver Flees After Crashing Into Pole in Avondale, Killing 1 Passenger and Injuring 2 (Sun-Times) CTA Blue Line Service Suspended After Suspect Runs Onto Tracks in Eisenhower Median (ABC) Metra Problems Still Being Worked Out After Monday’s BNSF Gridlock (CBS) Lipinski Announces $8.6M in Federal Funs for Positive Train Control (Beverly Review) Chicago Is Installing […]

More Coverage of Illinois Adding the “Dutch Reach” to Driver Curriculum (CBS, Tribune) Sun-Times Is Looking for Bike Crash Footage for a Follow-up to Recent Editorial (Chainlink) After Angela Park’s Death, Letters Blame Main-Street Bikeways, Cyclists (Sun-Times) NWU Prof: Let’s Implement Congestion Pricing Instead of a Ride-Share Cap (Crain’s) Metra Gets an Earful Over Massive Delays […]

Sun-Times: ATA’s Call for Moratorium on Road Widening “Takes [Pro-Transit Argument] Too Far” CPD’s Glen Brooks Discusses Bike Ticketing & Other Community Issues on Chicago Tonight CTA Is Adding 4,800 Hi-Def Security Cams, on top of 4,800 Announced in February (NBC) Driver Taken Into Custody for Possible DUI in Fatal N. Lawndale Rollover Crash (WGN) […]

After Driver Killed Alyssa Lendino, 16, Friends Set up Lemonade Stands to Benefit Family (ABC) Concrete Falls off Englewood Building, Injuring Pedestrians (CBS) Ben Joravsky Discusses the CPD’s Racially Skewed Bike Ticketing Practices With ChiGov.com …And John Discusses the Issue on Outside the Loop Radio The Daily Herald Looks at How the CREATE Program Will Help […]

The Tribune Looks at the Trend of Protesters Blocking Highways Sun-Times: Let’s Have Real “Zero Tolerance” for CTA Drivers Who Crash While Distracted Waguespack (Unrealistically) Worries About a Car2go-Created Parking Crunch (Block Club) Speeding Driver Killed Former CFD Ambulance Commander & His Wife in South Deering (ABC) Van Driver Critically Injured Pedestrian in Garfield Park […]

The City Is Interested in Working With Bike Lane Uprising to Keep Lanes Clear (Tribune) City Council Votes to Close the Chicago Ave. Underpass to the LFT at Night (Sun-Times) Driver Who Killed ALyssa Lendino, 16, While Doing 107 Charged With Homicide (Tribune) NWU History Professor & Balbo Booster Debate Whether Street Should Be Renamed […]

Can We Learn From The 606 Experience & Prevent Future Displacement? (Curbed) Why Wasn’t Reverting N. LSD to a Surface Road Considered? (Transport Politic) Driver in Critical Condition After Crashing Into Homewood Dairy Queen (NBC) Avondale Food Pantry Closed After Hit-and-Run Driver Injures Manager (Block Club) Lawsuit Accuses City of Exceeding $250 Cap on Fines for Drivers […]

Musk Shows Off Tunneling Hardware for His (Not-Invented Yet) OE Pods (Curbed) Manhattan Institute Fellow Praises Emanuel’s TOD, Affordable Housing Policies (Crain’s) Almost 900 Mixed-Income Homes Planned for Former Harold Ickes Site (Tribune) Motorcyclist Killed in Crash Near 95th and Halsted (ABC) Driver Flips Car, Grazes Pedestrian in Naperville, Causing Minor Injuries (Patch) Cyclist Knocked […]

Sun-Times: Costs for O’Hare People Mover Project Soar Due to No-Bid Add-ons Driver Who Fled Traffic Stop, Causing Fatal Car Crash, Is in Custody (ABC) CTA Bus Driver Struck and Injured Man in Marquette Park (Tribune) CTA Installs New HD Cameras at Red Line Stations (ABC) Blue Island Branch of Metra Electric Will Be Shut […]

2 Children Critically Injured in Bronzeville Crash (NBC) Driver Who Fled Police Charged With Murder in Crash Death of Diane Lampsa, 66 (Tribune) Block Club Looks at Active Trans’ Proposal to Make Logan/Western Area Safer Why Eric Zorn Opposes Renaming Balbo Drive for Ida B. Wells (Tribune) Metra BNSF Signal Problems Near Naperville Cause Delays, […]