This Kind Of Smart, Walkable, Mixed-use Urbanism Is legal To Build in select zones of Chicago.

Congratulations to Chicago for seemingly being the first major U.S. city to remove a @nacto.bsky.social approved protected intersection. nacto.org/publication/...

Lol. Lmao. Fucking knew it.

If you have insomnia, I have good news: you can now fall asleep at MACH speed merch.metra.com/collections/...

This alignment is better than the Amtrak one and a great candidate for overhead electrification.

Want to board a Metra train in Evanston headed for Milwaukee? You might be able to in a few years... www.cbs58.com/news/better-...

Imagine getting off the bus at this stop on a major arterial street in Chicago. The ramp comes down and you roll off with a wheelchair or walker. I use this stop often with my kids. The packed ice is about 4 inches thick. The trampled boot path is around 12 inches wide.

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

Sure sounds like current board members are actively trying to sabotage the hard-fought #RevenuesAndReform of SB2111 through an amendatory veto. We're not done yet: call @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office and tell him to sign SB2111 **as-is**! gov.illinois.gov/contact-us/c...

The alderperson provided an update today: many of the already installed protections will be removed and planned protections will not be installed

Cook County has an active infill rail station study underway. Put dots on the map where you want a new train station. cook-rail-survey-hntbcorp.hub.arcgis.com

A vision of subterranean sunlight & shadows, Lower Wacker Place

Yet another variety of cop has arrived—NIPAS/assorted suburban Illinois cops from various departments recruited for riot control. Dogs barking. ISP just gave another warning, ordering protesters to disperse or potentially face chemical weapons or "pain compliance techniques."

ICE helicopter currently hovering over the North Ave Home Depot. Spotted from Cortland Bridge.

Also contains parking reform! This is a preliminary map of Chicagoland based on the People Over Parking Act provision. It would also apply downstate though!

So not only does the massive transit package passed last night fill the funding gap, it *boosts* ops funding by roughly the size of the gap, eliminates parking minimums within a half mile of rail stations, and gives the new regional transit board sweeping powers to do public development

Just got this action alert, I think from @betterstreetschicago.org Sign a witness slip immediately for the transit funding bill. Info in alt text mbl.ms/mKgZnW7m-BQ

Witness Slip Warriors: You are a PROPONENT of SB2111 if you love trains and buses! Get to it. (Previously shared an outdated link, this is current.)

Ellis describes this incident: As the agents drove away from a confrontation in Little Village on Thursday, “they pointed a pepper ball gun and then a real gun at … Chris Gentry, a combat veteran who was lawfully standing on the side of the road ‘bang, bang,’ and ‘you’re dead liberal.'”

As ICE continues to terrorize our communities, kidnapping our neighbors, 9 cyclists came together this morning at 6am to buyout 5 vendors and donate the food to a local shelter. They went home safe, hungry ppl were fed, this is #BikeChi ✊🏽

CTA fare hikes going the wrong way, penalizing multi-ride ticket holders more than single-trip fares: 🚍 Bus fare: $2.50 (+$0.25, +11%) 🚇 ‘L’ fare: $2.75 (+$0.25, +10%) 📅 1-Day Pass: $6.00 (+$1.00, +20%) 📆 7-Day Pass: $25.00 (+$5.00, +20%) 🗓️ Regional Connect: $45.00 (+$15.00, +50% (!!))

Foreign student enrollment: IIT 51% UChicago 31% Art Institute of Chicago 31% U of I 22% Northwestern 21%

ICE agents arrest Alderperson Jessie L. Fuentes (26th Ward of Chicago city council) after she questions them on whether they have a signed judicial warrant to arrest a person at Humboldt Park Hospital. “He has Constitutional rights.” “No.” ICE’s exact mindset: no one is allowed any rights now.

ICE just killed an immigrant at a traffic stop outside Chicago while simultaneously tear gassing protesters ALL IN ONE DAY and the entire timeline is still massive accounts talking about the Kirk shooting and Pritzker scaring Trump off Literally what the fuck is wrong with all of you

Living in Chicago is cool because our public transit system ranks as an excitement level "Medium" in Chris Sawyer Rollercoaster Tycoon.

Lol pretty sure my Brown line train operator triggered an over speed automatic emergency brake application doing down the Belmont flyover.

Conrail takes over operatoin of CTA blue line.

This detour significanly defreases my saftey on my new commute. Please write to Ald. Scott Waguespack and CDOT encouraging them to phase the construction of the bridge so that half can remain open to pedestrains and cyclists and/or to add a temporary protected bike lane on North and Fulerton.

Turns out it’s a thing

Thank you IG girlies for providing a timelapse that exactly shows why we need dedicated bus lanes and enforcement on DLSD. Those two busses have probably 80-100 people on them

If a University of Chicago student can do an economic analysis that says bridging the fiscal cliff has a benefit-cost ratio of 168%, should be a real no-brainer for our state legislators to get behind a robust revenue package.

@andrefor40th.bsky.social spotted two vehicles, including a van use the Granville bike path under Metra tracks and counted 8 cars parked in the new Pratt bike lane E of Western even with cement cars are like water, unless a physical barrier is in place they will take room

Going, going. . .

Can't park there m8

🏛️ iiif-server.lib.uchicago.edu 📍The Gap, Near South Side, Chicago, IL, USA View Map

14. Instead of RLE, electrify the RI and this portion of the UP and beef up service on the Blue Island Branch. Hire NICTD to do the design and construction at West Lake prices.

Urban Freight Rail Appreciation Post (Healy MD-N)

I knew I had actually seen it in the wild! Took this photo in 2011 by the Damen Silos. Can barely find any info about it online though.

Experimenting with new #BuildTheTunnel visualizations. To eliminate the "spaghetti" appearance of the various routings, which some folks apparently found confusing, this version focuses exclusively on frequency -- including comparable levels of service on the 'L'.

Walking home from the Green Mill and I can’t get over how nice all the new stations in the neighborhood are

Tapping the sign forever www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Forgive me new CTA stations, I wasn't familiar with your game

Won't somebody thing about the MED/South Shore foamers?

Damen Silo (April 2024)

Thank you activists for showing up. Right now let’s fiercely fight not only for reforms needed for Chicago public transit systems so it works for all of us, but also for sustainable funding. Call every level of government that represents you. Hold us accountable. Let’s win this together

First south bound train over the new RPM tracks. With the CTA workers and foamers.

New stations means new liminal spaces to play around with photo composition in.

3. Paper timetables and maps are still really important and I wish transit agencies would still produce them. Or, at the very least, static PDF maps and timetables