If you’re a democrat in office and you have time to praise Cheney but not Mamdani, you will be primaried!

Bullying works, kids!

In celebration of SB2111’s passage this morning, here’s Metra 2111 passing me on departure from CUS.

Ladies and gentlemen, we got it!

"We’re going to do what’s necessary to get a transit bill passed. We all understand how important to fund transit throughout the state of Illinois. And so we’re going to attempt to get it done ASAP." - @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Hear me out. Meigs Field should have been replaced with a bigger airport two miles out in the lake.

We should plan on a full modernization of the Blue Line - including automation and platform screen doors - so we can reallocate those operators out of Rosemont and Forest Park and run more service on the rest of the system

This rebuild absolutely must include platform screen doors.

Left Midway at 756a and arrived Roosevelt at 816a. Departed on the Red Line at 819a. Now for the Southside.

Good morning and where I’m up to do a CTA speedrun attempt! Hopefully things go well today, but we’ll see. Official start at 6:57:54 at Polk/Pink.

Through run the orange and brown lines via the state street subway you cowards

Free research idea for some grad student or non-profit out there: has anyone done a modern analysis of the Orange Line's impact on the Southwest Side, 30 years later? Probably goes without saying that it's been a huge improvement for Southwest Siders, but can induced new development be quantified?

I wasn’t in a relationship but I am now. Women love the vehicle.

the neverending urge to “solve” how to route HSR in and out of Chicago

These pics go so hard. NO KINGS!!!

Good morning from Clinton/Pink where I’m here to catch a train to 54/Cermak on a CTA all stations attempt! The run actually starts at Polk/Pink so stay tuned for an official start time. The record as always is 8:48. I don’t see a chance of beating that today, but we’ll see what’s possible.

There is no war zone here. Little Village, Chicago

We’re on the ground.

“Your attention please. we are being delayed because of a raised bridge ahead.” Sweetheart, this is the blue line.

BlueSky shitposting has so far to go when a post like this only has double digit likes.

I thought this was a great indicator of the in-roads e-bikes are making in mobility.

Signs of Kenosha.

Pete Peepee United States, Census, 1910

Lake forever problems for now

Current* conditions near Racine, WI

Jesus fucking Christ. If there is not a way to go to IRM on this new line I will do a foamer Jan 6.

Made a playlist for my birthday 🥳

27. Canada, US, and Mexico should for a visa-free Schengen zone with a hard border at Guatemala / Belize. Central American counties can join piecemeal as they meet criteria, similar to the Balkans.

The reason your landlord is raising your rent while also being slow to fix broken shit is because they know they don’t have to! you don’t have lots of good alternatives. it’s a landlord’s market. YIMBYism is how to make it a renter’s market!!

To answer one of my own questions, this is a graph of slow zones in feet over the last 24 months.

Many people are saying.

Excellent photo choice for a combined Chicago-henge and World Car Free Day.

Andy Milonakis, I wasn’t familiar with your game.

Sources say Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) is “very concerned” about Kimmel being taken off the air.

Hey, Clemson, since we’re talking about free speech here…

This should be legal by-right on every residential lot in Chicago. Standardize the plans and sell them off-the-shelf.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Liberals and centrists are doing more to turn him into a martyr than the right is.

Uh, why did two fighter jets just buzz the lakefront?

Their allegations of a “illegal alien crime spree” are so baseless that they have to cherry pick a hit-and-run from 8 mos ago and 3hrs away to use as the supposed justification for these illegal raids. Hit-and-runs are really bad, but hardly proof of the murderous gangs the regime is claiming.

As a Chicagoan, I’ve been at war with him since he came down the escalator ten years ago.

What if I just add a bunch of flags after my name just because I like the flags? Peter Lewis 🇨🇿🇳🇵🇯🇲🇪🇺🇨🇷🏳️‍⚧️ Maybe I’ll just rotate them out based on which flags I’m feeling.

Now that STB has guaranteed Metra access to the UP lines, we should make a serious play to purchase the UP-N and UP-NW lines outright. Can’t imagine UP would object too strenuously to offloading some very low-volume freight lines ahead of the NS buyout.

This is completely sending me. “We shouldn’t support these new projects, because they’re not affordable! The stuff that was built two decades ago is affordable.” Too bad you can’t build twenty year old apartments. You build new ones, and let them filter thru the market, people!

Heritage is quietly announcing that they only liked small government because they weren’t in control. Now that they’ve consolidated power, it’s actually just fine for their christo-fascist regime to be intimately involved in our personal lives.

i'm sorry because this is mean and not constructive but this might be the most unpleasant looking person i've ever seen. bro looks like they AI de-aged Alan Dershowitz

The biggest scandal in US public life *ought* to be that we are the richest country in history & yet our infrastructure sucks, our transportation choices suck, our cities suck, our healthcare sucks, our public administration sucks, & in dozens of little ways, our daily lives suck.

Chicago: this is a good time to buy a Mexican flag for your car

Fuck it. I’m in.

Well it blows my mind that we’re prioritizing capital toward heavier vehicles. Hey, Rivian, how much of your battery power is used just to move around the battery? Smaller vehicles wouldn’t require such a huge battery.