At least there are still some Democrats with back bones. I am looking forward to my vote actually mattering next year.

Good to know my trip to Mesa Verde National Park was ruined for nothing. I would have preferred to not have to do the entire 11-hour drive from Santa Fe to SLC in one night last month but I wasn't going to pay for the extra days on a car rental if I wasn't able to make a stop there.

I hope the door kicks you on the way out. www.axios.com/local/chicag...

When I lived in Evanston and took the UP-N home from late night work calls, it was faster for me to walk the mile home from the train station than wait 18 min for the next P-Dem bus because they had it scheduled to leave 2 min before my train got in.

When Amtrak works it works. Christmas train tickets for getting Lindsay and I between Chicago and Central Illinois and back only cost us $52 ($37 if you include the $15 voucher I got in return for a late train last time around).

My hometown's police department made a post yesterday about safety during Halloween but didn't mention anything about driver safety. I then went on to leave a comment pointing that out only to be accused of speeding by one of my former scoutmasters.

Metra alerts are now relayed via the Transit App, something the CTA has been doing for quite some time. Now Pace is the only other operator of the RTA to not relay said alerts despite Transit being their "Trip Planning App".

Interesting how he brought up the 25 days it took Letlow to be sworn in as this is now day 26 since Grijalva won her election.

Rail closures like this are why we NEED more bus lanes in the loop. It's a lot easier to bus replace rail service with its own right-of-way when the buses under it also have the same right of way. www.transitchicago.com/travel-infor...

The UTA green line is easily the best way to get to the airport assuming flight doesn't depart before service starts or lands after service ends. Hopefully that changes with the introduction of the Orange Line in the next decade.

Hot Take: The fares should have been higher but included fare capping to reduce costs on regular riders. I would honestly be ok with a fare as high as $3.50 if it meant I wouldn't pay more than $7 in a day (2 taps) or $28 in a week (8 taps), or $98 in a month (28 taps).

Here is a detailed list of all the fare changes happening across the RTA. Pace fare increases are generally 10% with Metra's ranging between 10-15%. CTA's is all over with anything other than one-way fares up 15% plus, including 20% on most passes and 50% on the RCP.

As much as I hate how early UTA service ends they at least cater to major events when they go late. The Utes game just finished at 11:45p MDT due to rain delays and they are still going to operate Red Line Trains for riders.

Hopefully nobody who took the UP-W tonight is ADA.

This was not a coincidence.

Hanover Park isn't all Cook County, is it?

Detailed fare increase metric for the CTA, Metra, and Pace. CTA one-way fares are yet to be announced but it is pretty easy to assume they will see the $.25 as it is in line with the 10% increase the RTA is requiring.

The "North Suburban Cook County" Metra Budget hearing is being held in Hanover Park that outside of the nearby Metra station, only has a single hourly Pace bus connection. It is also barely in Cook County, with half of the village actually in DuPage County.

MAGA is now also raising car insurance rates.

With the announcement of the 2026 Pace Budget Hearing came a more finalized version of the proposed fare increase with reduced fares. There is still no mention of fare capping.

Graphic design is my passion.

My hometown of Addison, IL, which largely voted for Trump in 2024, just became a winner of the "Fell For It Again" award. Starting next year village employees will only have a single "high-deductable" health insurance option as rates continue to rise nationwide.

If you have to run triples on a Sunday, maybe that's a sign you should be running 15-minute service.

This is following a year where the water level Great Salt Lake fell to record low due to a lack of any measurable rainfall this summer. Climate change is here, and it is just going to make extreme events more common.

This happened not far from where I used to work. It was bad enough to see how much car centrism made the place difficult to access and get around any other way, and this is just another more extreme way that the area is being fractured.

Looks like dispatchers are even getting confused by the bus bunching as they just sent out back-to-back 209's instead of a 209 and a 2. Bus is tracking as a 2 but running the route of the 209 right behind the other.

Can someone confirm for me whether or not the compact shelters on the Pulse Dempster Line have benches or not?

I will be doing a post-up of the Pace Pulse Cermak Line Public Meeting starting at 5pm CDT.

I wonder if there is anyone trying to use AOL dialup service that thinks the reason they can't connect to the internet anymore is because of the government shutdown.

40-40 is the second-highest-scoring tie game in nfl history, and the very highest of the super bowl era

I am content with the Packers not winning and scorigami.

I did not realize how far the bus bunching rabbit hole goes. 200S and Main sees service from 5 different UTA bus lines seeing 18 buses in each direction or, on average, a bus just under every 4 minutes.

At yesterday's board meeting Pace proposed their fare increases including the CTA Day Passes. Pace Fares are up about 10% with Day Passes up 15-25%. The big outlier is the regional connect pass with a 50% increase which will hurt the RTA's most dedicated riders. There was no mention of fare capping.

Gabe, the fate of the free world rests in your hands. Do you know how important this is?

Oh, now they want oversight. fortune.com/2025/01/13/m...

Anyone who thinks it's ok to drive almost 120mph on a public road doesn't belong on the streets, let alone on a football field.

It has been just over 3 months since she was assassinated in her own home, and the federal government has all but forgotten that it happened. Only to recognizing atrocities when they happen to your people is only going to widen the divide further and lay the groundwork for more events like this.

The best part about the OGX BRT is when it becomes a pseudo tram as it goes along a bi-directional one lane bus way through Weber State University.

I have a rigging call for a dance show load in up at Weber State. Didn't make it past Salt Central without a UTA ambassador asking why I have a 100 ft coil of rope.

Niles cuts the Free Bus over contract disputes with Pace creating huge hole in North-South service, especially on weekends. www.vniles.com/CivicAlerts....

Yes, lets hold mayors accountable for how dangerous they are making the situation.

Flaccid Governor Cox

"Not all homeless people deserve involuntary lethal injection" is one hell of an apology.

What a novel concept of rival candidates coming together for a greater cause.

Last I checked there were no riots following Melissa Hortman's death, only peaceful protests. Well except for one, and take a guess where that happened.

Melissa Hartman was killed very much in the same way as Charlie Kirk, but only one is being recognized federally. Even looking regionally, the DUI Hit-and-Run caused by a migrant in IL caused the militarization of Chicago but the one caused by a January 6th pardonee in MO gets swept under the rug.

According to the New York Post noticing someone's erection is Pro-Trans. Interesting with how Trump went on and on about Arnold Palmer's schlong.