One thing I want to highlight in this excellent post about the operational reforms still needed from the service boards that will be under NITA is the fact that CTA has extreme difficulty relocating its bus stops within the city of Chicago. Why? citythatworks.substack.com/p/we-havent-...

This puts an interesting wrinkle in my transportation planning study.

Lots of factual errors here, mostly that rush hour only buses do not trigger the parking reduction. Also...suburbanites, if you want to be able to drive and park everywhere, 99.9% of the built environment is for you!

Weird way to describe a torture program. You can draw a direct line from Dick Cheney to Donald Trump, even if the former hates the latter.

Yeah, no kidding CBP didn't want to linger in a neighborhood filled with cops.

I went to France for a week this summer and survived on nothing but red wine, cheese and trains. AMA.

We saw what happened in Philly with their transit fiscal cliff and turned around and ran the other way.

Nothing like riding into work on a smokey blue line train! At least transit is saved so now we can go back to more routine complaints.

Consultants licking their chops!

I understand the politics of offsetting road revenues being redirected towards transit with a toll increase on the IL Tollway, but... The Tollway is a separate authority that receives no general funds. So the Tollway, which is already flush with revenues, gets an extra $1B?

We saved public transit!

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

This right here.

So, if I have this correctly, we're going to cancel SNAP benefits because we don't have the money (we do) and we can't reopen the House because Grijalva is the final vote to release the Epstein files. So pedophiles over people, huh?

JFC, lol.

Metra clusterf*ck with the signboards out of service at Ogilvie and the conductors giving differing instructions. It shouldn't be this difficult in 2025 to communicate what the hell train we're on.

This is in my ward. Proud of these neighbors!

Undisclosed Tuesday drinking location.

Hey @chicagocta.bsky.social there's vomit on the Blue Line car #7066 heading towards Forest Park. I just got on at Jefferson Park.

That's my governor. What a stand up guy!

This tells me that too many people, Ari Shapiro included, unquestionably buy into AI without thinking. It's really pathetic journalism here. Simon's answer is perfect.

Expert level trolling here. Portland, can we export this to Chicago?

I was in Portland last month. It's a beautiful, peaceful city. Lovely place to visit and live in. Needless to say, Chicago is also a beautiful, peaceful city.

I am most interested in the intersection of the Upper Midwest, Great Lakes, Midland and Heartland regions. Is this Joliet? LaSalle? DeKalb?

I'm drinking whiskey at Delilah's today. It's the only way to get through this day.

Sounds like the party still has its collective head up its ass. Time to admit what is obvious to any impartial observer: the republic as we have known it is broken. There's no going back to before Trump.

This apropo of the funding stoppage of FTA RLE and RPM projects. With no oversight, the administration can do this without penalty.

CTA RLE and RPM projects are under funding freezes.

The proposed Bears stadium in Arlington Heights will have a seating capacity of 60k during home games (expanded to 70k for a Super Bowl). Soldier Field currently holds 61k and is the smallest, by capacity, in the NFL. Bears, what are we even doing here in the largest single team market in the NFL?

Here's how @theguardian.com is reporting on the shutdown. This is how you do it.

Real leadership here would be urging the RTA to support HB3438 full stop. Also, gtfoh with the AI. No one has any idea what that even means.

What is even the purpose in 2025 of a car dealership anyways? Why can't you just order cars directly off the internet?

This photo in Chicago (well, Broadview, IL) is really, really powerful. Massive credit to the Tribune photographer @staceywescott.bsky.social and the protestor in focus.

Sources tell me that this is likely to factor into decisions for the ILGA to kick the can even further down the road to the spring session.

Perhaps if airlines didn't have check bag fees passengers wouldn't be incentivized to bring as much shit on board. And then we wouldn't have flight attendants pleading with us to not delay departure. I should have taken Amtrak home.

48 apartments proposed in Edgebrook. Great opportunity for transit oriented development on the far NW side. nadignewspapers.com/48-apartment...

Ok so the Portland pizza scene is not good. Signed, a Chicagoan. It's ok. You can't compete with the best.

Much fairer?

Interestingly enough, I learn from B Line here in Portland that the best in class four wheel e-cargo bike is made by Honda American Motor Co. in Ohio. That's right...a car company.

I love everything about B Line in Portland. Awesome PPP micro mobility business using e-cargo bikes (trucks?) for last mile delivery. Apparently quad cargo bikes coming soon.

Riding a bike in Portland, OR is far more relaxing than has been my experience in Chicago. Not news to many, but eye opening to me. What a lovely city.

In engineering terms, isn't vehicle throughput increased in this area - if by vehicles we mean bikes and people - we just close it to cars during rush hour? And if we do that, what if we just close it permanently?

Anyone use proton mail or another email software? Already using Duck Duck Go for browsing

Going to Portland, OR next week for a conference. What urbanist adventures (and breweries) should I sneak away for?

A glimpse of what the transit cliff might look like with these headways.

Ayatollah Covfefe is the funniest name I've seen in a long time! Let it be heard far and wide.

I think Chicago is a deliberate provocation. He wants some sort of '68 style convention riot in Grant Park.

Seems like conservatism and rebellion are exact opposites, no? There is nothing conservative here, it's just lust for power.

Goddamn the framing in the NYT Daily podcast at the Dems redistricting in CA is basically, the Rs are expected to do this (TX) but the Ds are supposed to be better that this.