Buses should be immune from traffic laws and if a driver gets into a crash with a bus it's always the driver's fault.

Mayors and Governors realizing that they don't actually control the police that they think they control.....

Heads up, Twin Cities— CBP agent Timothy Donahue was photographed outside the Whipple building yesterday. In Chicago, he was documented aggressively detaining bystanders; also involved in at least one car crash. Most importantly, he also brandished his gun at a crowd in Evanston on 10/31.

It's time to ride el tren

Watched this as a garbage truck idles in my alley

So glad I saw this in 35mm at music box as a part of ciff

Gift link, send it to your alder: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I'd be a train operator if I could work from home.

Oof, okay. This one's a weird, uncomfortable ask. December was an extremely lean month, with half my shit on going on Flex loans, and I'm staring down the barrel of not being able to pay my rent this month. If you dug my work this year and are feeling generous, I could use a leg up.

My transit wait times for the day (a Saturday): NYC - 4pm 1. -1 minute for my train 2. 1 minute for my train 3. 7 minutes for my bus CHICAGO - 9pm 4. 0 minutes for my train 5. 4 minutes for my bus God is good. Thank you to the progressive mayors of Chicago and NYC for making this a reality.

New to me. Luxury passive house in Hudson Yards. Two beds around ~$2M.

Be like me, watch bugonia 6 times.

if anyone wants to be a cta rail operator, cta just posted the flagger role that's the prerequisite:

Yea I'm chronically online for the city I love. I've been waiting all year for this. Can't believe the source for the train one wasn't the CST article I was in. Heartbroken.

I think knowing that my comments and reviews get ingested by Copilot is making my comments and reviews less verbose/worse. I don't want AI to know what's happening in my brain. Sorry coworkers! Blame our employer!

Mark my words, everyone who voted for this budget will simultaneously run on it (taking credit for opposing Brandon Johnson) and against it (blaming him for all of its consequences)

I think there's almost no chance we get a progressive, weight-based vehicle registration fee anywhere in Illinois anytime soon. Even if these bloated and dangerous cars are destroying our roads, our lungs, our waterways and the planet as a whole. www.wglt.org/local-news/2...

What must be going through the FOIA officer's mind that they decided to give me this spreadsheet as a PDF. Literally creating more work for themselves AND more work for me.

January 2024 thru December 2025 there were 5,200+ 311 complaints for ice/snow removal. And 396 fines issued (probably going to be a little more once fines are issued for December snowfall). So about 8% of complaints result in a fine. That's simplifying cause fines can be issued without a complaint.

On a packed train to grand central (in heaven) while Posting™️ way too much (in hell).

I want my money back from her trip AND a better way to design and build infrastructure in Chicago that isn't a piecemeal ward by ward process that fails to deliver mobility for the most vulnerable people.

Prepare to study a task force in establishing a potential future working group to implement... "We need to talk about this, we need to talk about that, and what we talk about when we talk about fucking talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talking forever until we’re all fucking dead."

Chicago's probably more likely to get a zamboni for sidewalk ice resurfacing than a municipal sidewalk clearing program.

Pshh. Enforcement and community driven solutions work great in Chicago. Who needs municipal snow clearing when you have municipal ice rinks?

Alternative? More like joke revenue measure. Get real.

I'll give the CTA $50 million if they get rid of all the cops instead.

can you tell i hate LLMs at work

"We need to talk about this, we need to talk about that, and what we talk about when we talk about fucking talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talking forever until we’re all fucking dead."

I wrote this piece for NABSA based on what we’re seeing with Divvy. Treating bikeshare as essential transportation & backing it up with real policy & investment has delivered results: higher ridership, system stability, stronger equity outcomes & stable pricing in Chicago nabsa.net/2025/12/18/d...

I think you asked about this a while ago. @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social there's been 396 fines issued by Chicago related to snow/ice removal from January 2024 through March 2025.

FACT SHEET - Northern Illinois Transit Authority Act There's so much to love here. I love @ronythebikeczar.bsky.social's fast track provision! gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/fact-sheet-n...

WHY CAN'T I FIGURE OUT HOW A VOTE WENT ON A PIECE OF LEGISLATION ON ELMS. I HATE THIS SYSTEM.

The bus I'm on just used this shitty excuse for "bus infrastructure" to jump past 15 single occupancy vehicles. Imagine what we could do with actual protected infrastructure for our buses.

Good morning from Chicago's Edgewater community. Refugee advocacy groups just wrapped a presser, addressing the Trump admin's recent move to freeze asylum processing & place a hold on immigration benefit requests for people from 19 so-called "high risk" countries, "pending a comprehensive review."

Holy. Shit.

#BikeChi Imagine being such a miserable driver, you want others to be miserable. Pull up tomorrow to support the homies support safe streets. ✊🏽

The Mayor has budgeted $5 million for a ShotSpotter replacement for CPD. You really could not have a clearer illustration of the choices between community resources vs state surveillance, and so far, as usual, the choice is state surveillance.

Turns out police superintendents CAN order their officers to intervene in unlawful immigration detentions.

We should run the holiday train 365 days a year.

What a wild thing to assert in the part of the city that was manually lifted an entire story on jacks without disrupting commerce at all

CoP days @anthonymoser.com

They should run the holiday train 365 days a year

What's happening with the Chicago Public Libraries right now is terrible. The proposed budget of the city would CUT 89 CPL positions. Importantly, 78 positions were lost LAST year. That would be 167 positions in 2 YEARS while COPS KEEP GETTING MORE MONEY. ENOUGH. SAY NO.

The proposed Chicago city budget has a $5 million line item for a ShotSpotter replacement. Abandoning this failed pursuit would free up the funds needed to maintain 2025 funding levels at our city libraries, which would still leave the libraries underfunded but would avoid disastrous proposed cuts.

Who's up foia'ing "records showing if Rony is happy"? No one 😔

Despite this incredibly predictable abuse of the growing surveillance panopticon, Mayor Harrell & the conservative majority on Seattle city council voted to put an SPD camera less than *450 feet* from Planned Parenthood’s Northgate location stopsurveillancecity.wordpress.com/2025/04/13/s...

Outfit change and we're riding bikes again!!!!

ICE garage blockaded in lower Manhattan with dozens of agents stuck inside as more and more New Yorkers gather. NYPD observed staging on Canal & Broadway, expected come over for crowd control.

Go ride your bikeeeee!!!!!

Our mayor will do anything except actually make our city better by taking space away from drivers and giving it to people