Thru-run Orange to Kimball you cowards

Train movie of course but the ending of the original The Taking of Pelham One Two Three – ostensibly an action movie – remains my favorite youtu.be/nDlEcFRZUYI?...

Supposed to snow this weekend. Enjoy yourselves, Texas guardsmen

I love that the ruling is “Chicago fucking rules, fuck the liars and the haters”

The November 2025 RTA special Board of Directors meeting is now 🔴 LIVE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iho...

NITA needs to come out of the gate with bold vision – and action – to create and enforce the “one-network, one-timetable, one-ticket” regional operating model codified in SB2111. Leave the past in the past. It’s time for a new generation of leaders to guide us into the future.

Pace math is when the tracker says 3 minutes, then you wait 5 minutes, check again and the tracker says 4 minutes, and then the bus shows up 2 minutes later

Taking WMATA to DCA, flying to ORD, and then taking the Blue Line is downright radicalizing

Glad we’re saving our intercity bus terminal but it would’ve been nice to more thoroughly explore relocation options to somewhere a bit better connected to our regional transit network before making a $50 million investment to take it over

When you’re riding public transit you realize that what’s good for everybody is also good for you. If the bus runs faster, if the train is cleaner, if the AC works, we all benefit when you’re driving a car, every other car on the road is your personal enemy

If you want to visit the grave of the guy who was the first person to drive on this (and a bunch of other firsts), he's buried at Lithuanian National Cemetery in Justice.

So we don’t know where the new Greyhound station is going to go, but we do know how much it costs apparently chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/20...

With Illinois passing the transit revenue & reform bill, and now NYC electing Mamdani as the next mayor, it's nice to be reminded that good things are still possible.

In a DC bar booing Rahm whenever he comes on CNN’s election night broadcast

📍 Jefferson Park #BuildTheTunnel

"However, a little-noticed provision in SB 2111 may have an outsized and long-lasting impact on municipal planning efforts throughout the state." The People Over Parking Act starts on Page 6 of the bill. "Read the bill challenge" remains undefeated

Friendly reminder that eliminating parking minimums doesn’t actually mean eliminating parking, it just means that developers can build as many parking spaces as they like, without regards to what’s effectively an unfunded mandate to build parking spaces they may not want or need

More convinced than ever that now’s the time to #BuildTheTunnel

I’ve been told this is a good one-tweet explainer, what else would make #BuildTheTunnel more palatable to wider audiences?

When someone “from Chicago” says something about something “in Westside”

Sky is on fire on the West Side right now

Never in doubt

Many people are saying this

I’ve been told this is a good one-tweet explainer, what else would make #BuildTheTunnel more palatable to wider audiences?

To put a finer point on it: • Lots of working-class folks live in 🟢🏘️ • There are lots of jobs in 🟡🏭 • We’ve already built 🔵🚆 • But we’re missing 🔴🛤️ • So those workers have to drive on ⚫️🛣️ • Therefore we should #BuildTheTunnel 🔴🚇

Well, okay then, carry on

This summary of Illinois transit reform bill covers some of the safety-related provisions. evanstonroundtable.com/2025/11/01/i...

Unfortunately NITA is making us pay for the CTA’s bad service planning just a little bit longer: the legislation requires reopening the Central Blue Line station, which probably could’ve been entirely mitigated by having the 7, 12, and/or 85 simply end at an existing Blue Line station instead

I wish I lived in a big market so we could afford to build winning sports teams

A wild-eyed Christopher Lloyd explaining that the only way to close the inter-dimensional wormhole from the Cubs winning the World Series is to play another World Series in the "null hour" when clocks are turned back.

SUPPORT MANNY'S IF YOU ARE IN CHICAGO.

Welcome to the couple two tree weeks of the year where I’m not actively seeking out Christmas music but if it comes up on shuffle I’m not skipping it either

My biannual reminder that the time on the clock is a human construct. The sun doesn’t actually rise and set an hour earlier tomorrow. We should stick to standard time year-round and adjust our seasonal schedules accordingly instead of vice-versa.

For $5.75 billion, this part of the map needs to have more blue in it

Per @capitolfax.bsky.social the heart of the Illinois transit funding package is a decision to use all state motor fuel sales taxes to fund mass transit instead of sending that cash to the Road Fund. chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...

A key governance reform feature of the new Illinois transit law is having Northern Illinois Transit Authority directors also serve on the boards of @chicagocta.bsky.social, Metra, and Pace. This feature was modeled after the transit governance structure in New York, where there is a 100% overlap.

2025 Trick-or-Treat census: 234 kids

Check out our latest blog: Illinois celebrates a historic win for public transit activetrans.org/blog/illinoi...

Here's a quick and dirty one-page overview of the Northern Illinois Transit Authority legislation that the Illinois General Assembly passed early this morning. Reply w/questions. Link to bill: ilga.gov/documents/le...

Updated board seat allocation chart for the new NITA bill

Not a graphic designer, but something like this?

"What's the Tollway going to do with an extra ten billion dollars over the next decade?" I have a suggestion... #BuildTheTunnel

Kam spiking the football over on the hellsite

Let's do it #BuildTheTunnel

other organizations that helped get #RevenuesAndReform passed, in no particular order: - Metropolitan Planning Council - Active Transportation Alliance - many members of the Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition, including Sierra Club Chicago and Abundant Housing Illinois – ilcleanjobs.org/who-we-are/m...

It's Friday, it's Halloween, we're celebrating, share your NITA sketch logos. I'll start

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