From @arielparrella.bsky.social: Federal Agents Handcuff Chicago Alderperson At Hospital ER blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...

State Representative Lilian Jimenez on the tear gassing of protesters near Rico Fresh on Armitage and Central Park.

Kind of confused by some of the statements highly critical of RTA (e.g., trying to delay, downplaying dire risks). This statement calls for action now. It says risks of inaction are devasting cuts, while other regions have acted.

Revisiting some student work from Fall 2023 on mobility justice & the 157/Ogden bus in North Lawndale. Check out their excellent, holistic, and rigorous work!

Wow! Have only been on Instagram a month or two but there's already a fake account that has one of my pictures and an extra s on the handle. I'm kateontransport NOT kateontransports

@swcollectivechi.bsky.social hosting a bike ride Saturday!

Operating losses on Brightline Miami to Orlando airport. More shift from short flights to speedy rail would be ideal, but this scenario seems reinforce that for-profit model not promising in the current landscape & we might need to price air travel emissions? www.railwayage.com/passenger/in...

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

Is anyone downloading census data? Some pages seem live but when I tried to download a zipped shapefile I got this message and was never redirect.

To avert the great harms of cuts (collective but most acute for disadvantaged) imperfect, feasible funding sources? Yet in Illinois we need long term visions of progressive (income, corporate) revenue & radically investing in our shared future via collective goods like public ed & transit.

It's kind of weird (read: disappointing) to see academic research centers using AI to create art to highlight/advertise their research projects.

UIC Heritage Gardens doing amazing intersectional work! Student interns gave a great tour for @uiccuppa.bsky.social undergrads today!

Today marks the start of #WeekWithoutDriving and the forecast looks great for walking, biking, & public transit! WWD is a chance to challenge yourself to cut back on vehicle trips and try other ways of getting around. Let’s build communities that are inclusive and accessible for everyone.

Hi transportation friends! I'm looking for examples of arterial traffic calming especially in low/moderate income communities of color or near an airport. Already looking at Buford highway in Atlanta. Ideas very appreciated!

Packed day of fascinating research presentations by @uiccuppa.bsky.social PhD students!

Don’t be gaslighted folks. “What I said: “The day-to-day operations of the T or the [Chicago Transit Authority] are not funded at all by the federal government. So the threat of pulling that money is nonexistent. It doesn’t exist.” www.wgbh.org/news @jersiegel.bsky.social reporting.

TRB actions eliminating committees and potentially conference content regarding equity & sustainability are "inconsistent with the foundational purposes of the TRB" & "incompatible with the function of scientific inquiry in a free society" Sign on & share: forms.gle/zBknHfDNUZjj...

For their first project, my Kids and Society students have to create an infographic clarifying a common misconception about "kids these days." I'd prefer that they not use AI to create their projects, so I made my own infographic explaining why : )

I support this.

Wait GenAI is good when Black people do it? No that's not how it works. It's even worse to use plagiarized images from scraped somewhere made by creators of color or depicting people of color. Also you're still poisoning the environment when you could just not.

So excited to check out the renovated Ramova Theatre tonight and see the so amazing, brilliant @hannibalburess.bsky.social tonight! Looks like there's even a few tickets left www.ramovachicago.com

The School of Planning, Policy, and Environmental Studies at San José State University is hiring an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies. We welcome applicants from all fields of environmental studies who apply an environmental justice lens to their work. jobs.sjsu.edu/sj/en-us/job...

Incredibly timely news, journalist/researcher friends: @righttobe.bsky.social just launched Expert Voices Together - a FREE service that helps journalists and researchers who are being intimidated/harassed! Check it out at expertvoicestogether.org !

Unlike PA, we have Dem majority in both chambers, so let's ensure we prevent cuts (& ideally expand) by passing public transit funding in Oct! Shared economic, equity & environment benefits at stake! Let's also fund public education!

Sometimes think about disinvestment (private closure of stores, public closure of schools) & racialized DE-densification amid upzoning affluent areas (I'm pro-adu legalization, anti-single family zoning, etc). Density decrease from public housing destruction. www.socialexplorer.com/4406bbe424/v...

Grateful to join @uiccuppa.bsky.social students at @equiticity.bsky.social #reclaimingourspace Greatful for all @equiticity.bsky.social does to center racial and mobility justice in transportation and beyond!

Thanks to @sharedusecenter.bsky.social for a great day thinking and talking about paths to (and risks) to a better, more equitable and sustainability transportation future in Chicagoland!

Sidewalks are critical infrastructure!

Come work with us!! The Department of Geography & Spatial Sciences (GEOG) is seeking applications and nominations for the position of Department Chair at the rank of full professor with tenure--human geography specialization. #geosky #geogchat

Join us for a conversation on how our State of the State data hub on Sept. 24 from 12-1 p.m. ET! Learn how to navigate the hub, access state and national insights, and apply the data to strengthen your advocacy! Register here 👇 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Next Saturday! BIKES & BURGERS! Bring your friends & your bikes for a 9am ride and a 10am FEAST! Windy City Burger Social will have a limited quantity available for purchase - support a local biz and ride with us! Thanks to @globalchicago for hosting us, and to @windycityburgersocialclub for popping

Great meeting & tour with @swcollectivechi.bsky.social & @uiccuppa.bsky.social students in Archer Heights! The organization's holistic approach is a great example for future planners to learn from. I am excited for the work the students will do to support safety on Pulaski Rd!

Grateful for amazing colleagues and nice September weather!

I love soooo much about working at UIC and my department in particular. But not cool that UIC currently starts undergraduate pay scale below City of Chicago minimum wage (legal because as state employees they're exempt).

Penny dog!

Celebrating 13 years! Grateful for a caring a playful partner in Ryan in everything (including enjoying all the joy of living in Chicago)!

Great work by CDOT!

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I would love for us to collectively push back at routine competition and rankings in academia including this that becomes another lever for extractive labor practices amid constant neoliberal projects in universities...

Have heard reasons to be skeptical of big consulting firms like McKinsey. Do any of you know much about SLALOM? Including work in public transit?

"The idea is to make city governments helpless while continuing to blame them for everything that goes wrong in cities," writes @humantransit.bsky.social . "It plays well in conservative media, but it’s not fair and it’s certainly not democracy."

Paying operators adequately is a wise public investment. Service expansions yield collective benefits (to riders directly as well as to the entire city & region environmentally & economically). Across the US, most metros & states should increase public transit operations budgets for shared benefits!

Thinking of New Orleans this week. Amazed by its assets but also its inequities that many "rebuilding" efforts deepened. @keawilson.bsky.social wrote about our research @annalivia.bsky.social on NOLA inequity via streetcars for (exclusionary) economic development usa.streetsblog.org/2020/10/26/s...

Powerful story on traffic violence @davidstruett.bsky.social. Important steps by @illinoisdot.bsky.social & CDOT (e.g., Chicago Ave announcement) but not the wholesale paradigm shift we need amid decades of entrenched car culture in infrastructure & land use, plus growing SUV sizes & share.

Wish us luck! New undergrad class starts tomorrow with an overview of diverse just, sustainable practices & then follows pedestrian safety project. Grateful for collaboration with @swcollectivechi.bsky.social!

Because sometimes we all need Penny dog in a bowtie. Throwback from 10 years ago in Bayou St. John house in New Orleans.

…the police influence how urban denizens experience the city. The police influence how race and ethnicity, and other social markers that determine health, opportunities, and wealth (e.g., class and neighborhood), operate in cities.”

Hi @uiccuppa.bsky.social alums & friends: economic/community development jobs: sbfriedman.com/careers

"...automobile travel has about ten times the death rate as public transit, and transit vehicles also impose less risk on non-occupants like cyclists, pedestrians and other road users. Cars should come with warnings: 'Driving causes painful injuries, disabilities and death.'"

Important piece by a visionary leader calling for courage, political will and transformative adaptive (not just technical) change to center public transit & its collective benefits! Quote below really resonated, as sometimes in transportation we obscure political will & values with technical haze.