A picture of a picture of a bus shelter on a bus shelter:

The least appetizing food at the Taste of Chicago:

STRiDA bike spotted in person!

So nobody told the Grant Park Music Festival about the accompanying fireworks, and they were only on the first movement. Maestro Slatkin took the mic before the second movement to remark: “Don’t they know the fireworks are for a different Tchaikovsky work?”

Is this the ‘avid cyclist’ we hear so much about?

Technically incorrect is the worst kind of compliance.

Pilsen is on the best side of Chicago.

🆕 Chicago Smart Streets pilot data has been retrieved via FOIA up thru June 27th Access the map, and raw data here -> michaelmclean.me/chicago-smar...

Street Preachers: Out Gospel Bikers: In

I am disappointed to hear Roberto Requejo was not reappointed to the CTA Board. I’ve always found him to be thoughtful, knowledgeable, and passionate about improving transit. His expertise and leadership would have been invaluable as we work to bolster the CTA.

“After months of negotiations, University officials declined a proposal that would have significantly increased the number of on-campus Divvy stations, including at Ryan Field.” Northwestern rejected five campus docks because they didn’t want two docks at the new Ryan Field.

"Across the whole system, the CTA cites a 45% drop in serious crime and a 58% drop in violent crime in June 2026 compared with June 2025. Union leaders for both bus and train operators denied such a dip." The operating budget is being pushed towards security contracts by the operator's unions.

Good morning from the Glenwood greenway in Edgewater, Chicago, where I got to cheer workers as they drew bikes in the street

Redundancy is Freedom™️

You guys, are bike lanes gentrification or are they DEI, I can’t keep it straight

We're expanding our Automated Bus Lane Enforcement (ABLE) systems to equip a total of 52 buses with camera technology to automatically enforce parking and standing violations in bus and bike lanes, and bus stops.

This is how Dubuque keeps its bike routes safe: 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷

The neighborhood group demands bus rapid transit. www.southloopneighbors.org/post/central...

During today’s @chicagocta.bsky.social Transit Board Meeting Acting President Nora Leerhsen announced CTA is increasing from 6 camera equipped buses to 52 buses which will be able to ticket or issue warnings for bus & bike lane parking. See 1hr 31min 28sec

I'm excited that they're citing Vermont's Front Porch Forum as an exemplar here, and interested to see what happens when that localized social media model gets expanded from a state of 600K to a city of 2.7M...

Hey #bikechi, do you ride the north branch trail? Do you hate having to cross 6 lanes plus a high-speed slip lane at Devon? Come join me tonight to call for better/safer! At Edgebrook elementary from 5:30-7:30pm, there’s a CDOT meeting on improving this monstrosity!

"A bike lane or a safer crosswalk on Western Avenue or Archer Avenue is citywide infrastructure, not a neighborhood amenity, and treating it as one alderman’s call guarantees a patchwork network that fails everyone trying to get across town safely." More LTEs on bike lanes in Chicago.

Can't park there.

Dubuque’s Jule bus system also features artful bus shelters, in a more down-to-earth way.

They’ll never send me back.

I love a public stairwell.

Ingersoll is a street design best practice: a Complete Street with Dutch-style raised bike lanes, benches and native plantings separating the bike lane and sidewalk, a pedestrian HAWK signal crossing at sheltered bus stops.

The artful bus shelters of DART in Des Moines

From the same municipality comes two radically different ideas of bike infrastructure.

A memorial to the trolleys we lost.

Nothing says “Downtown Urbandale” like single-family homes and a road without a sidewalk or shoulder.

DART bus network redesign in effect!

good place for u kno what

Coffee + Bike Shops, the neighborhood basics.

Nice view of some Waymo vehicle recover crew during the same tow as 1st post. Notice their safety yellow jackets & bags. 3 are in frame at start, later another is shown getting into a 5th gen (Jaguar) robot. Takes alotta ppl & kinds of human drivers to have no-driver. OP: tiktok.mariapazromerobar

Jingle Bells? For Independence Day?

Go Sox Go?

Elizabeth, IL 🚲

Galena, Illinois

feeling driftless

Illinois’s plan to ‘address’ climate change: build solar farms and highway expansions at the same time.

Holy Diverging Diamond Interchange Batman

Well I for one am excited to see how much more highway we can get for $26.5B in state-of-good-expansion projects…

“You should wear hi-viz to make sure drivers are you before they hit you,” I said to the camo-print BMW.

Municipally-Owned Bus Terminal Now

IDOT has awarded the NITA consultant contract to Boston Consulting Group

On days like this, I wish the city encouraged arcades and awnings instead of specifically discouraging them.

The quarterly hearings that started because of ghost buses have become plagued by ghost aldermen.

It seems like Popeyes is at the center of every north side zoning debate these days...

Alexi keeps citing that drivers 79-86 are the safest in the state. National and international data consistently show that crash rates (especially fatal crashes) increase dramatically starting around age 75. The only reason IL bucked the trend is *because* we required road tests for seniors!!