Stuff like this makes me think of Paris's anti-pollution train fares. When air pollution is high (such as heat wave), they reduce the price of trains to encourage usage as opposed to driving. When it's lower, it goes back to its normal price.

Alderman saying there's no project that they could make to support the 78th stadium - uhm, perhaps a CTA station?

Personally I think the difference between an 8am sunrise and a 7am sunrise is slightly different shades of misery while the difference between a 5pm sunset and a 4pm sunset is life and death

At 1-month-old your fledglings Buddy and Frankie (pictured) are doing well. With adventuresome spirits and guidance from papa Imani, flight training continues! Thank you, as always, for giving your Chicago Piping Plovers space to feed and thrive! 📸: Chicago Piping Plovers (Frankie, July 14, 2026)

Coming soon to Wicker Park: The city's first all-pedestrian crossing phase outside of the Loop!

New decree: downtown parking costs will continue to increase until this number is over 90%.

how is the loop not 80%+

Getting an alderman to care about transit is like trying to pitch the color green to someone who has never seen or heard of green and might be openly hostile to the idea of colors in general

It’s important to celebrate the little wins on the way to safer streets for all.

"Residents didn't oppose it blindly. We just wanted engagement. We read the plans, cited city code and asked questions about scale, traffic mitigation, safety and impact. But our concerns were ignored."

@ Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, EV adoption should NOT be central for a climate strategy. It should be the 3rd or 4th most important strategy. First is reducing car dependency.

my body is simply a vessel for my cat to sleep on

Took my first buses in Dublin and when I moved to Chicago, got so confused when nobody else thanked the driver. Like wtf are we doing here

Took my parents to Dine Out Broadway and their only question was “why just 3 weekends a year?”

now free to say that I had an interviewer who asked me if there's a way to make a car that is 100% safe and also extremely fast and he did not like my answer

"I don't like 5 story buildings" says man who lives in the city of 5 story buildings

I want to hang out with S22

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

Never in history has a city had such a ratio of citizens who are absolutely insane about wanting world-class transit to transit officials who think the bus is icky

Uptown.

wow these letters are pretty good

"We find that congestion pricing improves EMS performance, reducing total travel times by 63–70 seconds, approximately 5-6 percent...These findings suggest that cost-benefit analyses of congestion pricing systematically understate net social benefits by omitting emergency response improvements."

people frequently recognize me on my bike from behind, presumably from my posts. they always say "on your left" as a nod to my left-leaning politics

got a great spot parked in the middle of lakeshore drive this year!

Piping plovers and killdeers chasing each other around at Montrose Beach this morning. Both species had chicks nearby.

Absolutely insane that Cape Verde — a country of 500,000 — played Spain, Uruguay and Argentina…and lost to none of them in regulation. Easily one of the greatest performances in World Cup history.

shutting down clark in andersonville while i marry my boyfriend at sweetgreen

why did we catch this stray wtf

If you want a summary of the current logic informing virtually all U.S. building codes, this graph from a 20+ year old article from a couple British fire engineers is remarkably on point:

now that @chicagocityscape.com has six years of building fires data I can easily turn @willskud.bsky.social's observations into charts ~all residential fires in which two people died were either in single-family houses or in very old multifamily buildings

my modest proposal for the minimum building height in Chicago’s old town triangle.

The piping plovers this morning at Montrose Beach

Meet Buddy, Frankie, Mavis, and Tweedy! Today, each of your 2026 Chicago Piping Plover chicks received their unique leg bands and along with them their name. Here are the names and leg band combinations. 1/3

A city report has found that Chicago's bike lanes don't hurt businesses. blockclubchi.co/4epHwpd

Don’t threaten me with a good time

Here's fallen CDOT Complete Streets Planner Riley O'Neil's obituary. A visitation was held on Saturday. He will be laid to rest in Graceland Cemetery, along with other notable Chicagoans who helped improve the city.

According to the CMAP Lakeview snapshot, population has grown 9% since 2010. We've only built 7% more housing units. Despite what people may believe, the % of owner-occupied units has actually increased, not decreased (30%->37%).

it's crazy that they snuck this in there

My answers: Wilson, Damen, Garfield and Kedzie

First Looks! Remember the first rule of Plover Club: You do not lose it if a picture has less than 4 chicks in it. 😉 (A 🐥🐥🐥🐥 picture will be rare.) 📸: Chicago Piping Plovers (Imani and chicks, Montrose Protected Beach, June 16, 2026)

A few fleeting, long-distance glimpses of the newly hatched piping plover chicks at Montrose Beach

🐣🐣🐣🐣 The day we have waited for, worked for has come! All 4 chicks have hatched. Our work carries on as we continue to support Sea Rocket and Imani and their chicks. Thank you, as always, for your support. 📸: Chicago Piping Plovers (June 15, 2026, eggshell flown from nest)

At long last, we've been issued the building permit for our W18th Triplex. This will be a multigenerational home for three households who are redeveloping their older home. A thread 🧵

“We are so committed to fairness that we have lost sight of the unfairness of doing nothing.”

Should I write a piece about the environmental justice wins that occurred with less air pollution?

“Since New York City introduced congestion pricing, the state has heralded significant reductions in traffic and rush hour delays, fewer crashes and noise complaints, & toll revenue projected to hit $500 million by the end of 2026. Now, Cornell researchers have tallied the environmental benefits.”

🚲 New Divvy record: 47,400 rides yesterday! The previous record (42,000 rides) was set just last Saturday. For context, there was only one day over 40,000 rides in all of 2025. Divvy has now had three in the last 8 days. Chicago keeps riding 🚀

i'm fine with people choosing bicycles as a primary mode of transportation. in fact, there are lots of benefits to doing so. all i'd ask is that they run a gas generator or something for a couple hours a day to fulfill their commitment to the carbon footprint

this is so embarrassing