Why are people so afraid of three flats?

It’s time for a bus lane on Lakeshore Drive

Is this the future if Chicago Complete Streets? Painted bike lanes. Raised cross walks. Curb level bike lanes at minor intersections. Floating bus stops.

Chicago is so good at voting.

Wait… people in NYC know about us? www.youtube.com/live/RPBAhd5...

What are everyone’s election night predictions? If you don’t have any, humor me.

Of course the X49 wouldn’t stop at the Western Metra station.

The apparent conviction of Wall Street that Hormuz is a problem with a simple and obvious solution that the US can put together in a few days is really going to break me

Remind me again why the Forest Park blue line branch continues to be like this? Feels intentional at this point.

HOURLY service. Love to see it.

There are reports of red-winged blackbirds arriving in the Chicago area.

Maybe we are still in a wait and see phase but the new Logan Square design seems like it’s going to create a lot of pedestrian/bike and car/bike conflicts. 😔

Yes! LA Metro, with D Line in Beverly Hills and the Downtown Connector, puts a rough estimate at $1B/mi for double-track tunnel, plus another $100M per station. This puts the core trunk line tunnel in the same general ballpark of RLE. Fleet, infill, extra lines, etc. add to that but it’s achievable.

Yay Chicago (?) but this graph is still super embarrassing to look at.

Build a park on top of the freeway!

I’m riding a ton of buses in SF and the all door boarding is something Chicago should adopt immediately.

BART was fun! Send me SF recommendations!

PSA: If you are entering or exiting a bar/restaurant with air gapped doors, wait for one door to close before opening the other. As important as taking your backpack off on crowded trains. Be a good person.

I just tossed some coin to the @mikesimmonsil.bsky.social campaign Mike is a champion for housing and mobility, the top two line items in most Americans' budgets Let's pump up his Q4 fundraising!! www.mikesimmons.org

Thank god Kevin McCallister lived in a walkable neighborhood.

So who is responsible for the sidewalks where they cross alleys? (which are not cleared either)

My residential neighbors did a mostly great job shoveling after this storm, but the strip mall with a gym, post office, swimming pool school, and restaurants nearby is completely uncleared more than 24 hours after the snow stopped. #PlowTheSidewalks

Breathless coverage of one person injured, not killed, on a CTA train, vs. a brief on Page 9 when two people are killed on the road. That’s because road death happens ALL THE TIME - 3 1/2 road fatalities per day in Illinois. It looks like the number of transit riders killed this year is one …

All the winter cycling videos are popping up. Reminder: Winter recreation/fitness cycling versus transportation cycling are very different. Transportation cycling: don’t stress too much. Don’t go out and buy all the gear. Keep riding and address your discomforts as they come up.

@westtowns-urbanist.bsky.social @peterlewis-jpg.bsky.social Any experience or tips taking a Brompton on the Amtrak Blue Water or similar? Will be my first time today. Planning on putting it in a IKEA Dimpa bag.

Most Americans have no concept of a car free lifestyle and have no idea how great it is.

This is a small snow plow for sidewalks If your city plows the roads but leaves sidewalks up to property owners, your city hates pedestrians.

Illinois now is the time to try for a progressive tax again

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

I wonder if Cuomo hired bagpipers to play his party and if they’re slowly packing up and leaving the party now. #iykyk

Amazing how Meet Me On Milwaukee can double revenue for local businesses but business owners believe doing it more than once per month would make it “less special.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/03/c...

Exactly how I appeared from the outside but still shocking to read. What was the House thinking?

To all my Chicago lizards.

alt headline: Illinois Legislature adopts transit revenues and reforms to ensure that drive times don't worsen

take transit

Feeling proud of Illinois. We are funding transit when many other states decided transit wasn’t important.

Fuck Halloween I got my transit funding, I'm happy :)

Downstate folks upset about the share of funding that’d go to NE Illinois in the latest iteration of the transit bill, consider this: about 845,000 people rode CTA on an average day in 2024. That’s more than the population of every county in the state except Cook and DuPage.

Good news: veto session does not have a hard limit, we can keep going far past midnight. Bad news: veto session does not have a hard limit, we can keep going far past midnight.

Counterproposal: The Bears should buy the parking meter lease and give it back to the City.

Chicago transit bsky having another 18 inning baseball game rn

Wow. Am I about to get a ‘SB 2111’ tattoo?

Five months later, the House somehow still got caught entirely flat-footed: watering down reforms, hiking regressive taxes, and basically throwing whatever else at the wall to see what could stick, all for a bill pronounced DOA by the Governor’s office within hours. That’s not hard, that’s silly.

Playing 20 questions with the Governor is getting old. Pritzker needs to be up front about what revenue he’s comfortable supporting.

The House and the governor's office had five months to get on the same page regarding revenue, and clearly they failed to do so. How the heck do we have a legislative supermajority + a generally agreeable governor and still fall short?? Advocates have been hounding them for MONTHS. So frustrating.

Two points I would suggest: • Don’t let a single geography be able to unilaterally kill any progress with NITA (bring back the 15-vote threshold option) • New revenues should be less regressive (sales tax increase) or gimmicky (streaming tax) and more transportation-related (Uber/Lyft, burrito taxi)

Who is out and about on Meet Me on Milwaukee? I saw @milwaukeeavbike.bsky.social keeping the peace.