Chicago’s premier bike lane, @milwaukeeavbike.bsky.social, totally unpassable >24hrs after it finished snowing. @aldermanlaspata.bsky.social

Always love Chicago Union Station during the holidays

Here's my favourite way of visualising this 👇 (🔴L) The 15 min catchment of your station by foot. (🔵R) The 15 min catchment of your station by bike. Hundreds, thousands more potential passengers to sustain the railway. All within grasp, by providing bike parking and the routes to get there. 🚲🚆

Sure sounds like current board members are actively trying to sabotage the hard-fought #RevenuesAndReform of SB2111 through an amendatory veto. We're not done yet: call @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office and tell him to sign SB2111 **as-is**! gov.illinois.gov/contact-us/c...

The people who love/must drive should be the biggest advocates of non-motorized modes. The more cars are taken off the road, the faster they will go. It’s not magic, just common sense.

Only 1% of @illinoisdot.bsky.social headcount is focused on public transport, shows where the priorities lie

On todays IDOT meeting I asked about Bus Lanes on IDOT controlled roads. The response I got was "might be difficult"...not ideal

Let's ensure Grand gets the protected bike lane it deserves. The extension of the protected bike lane will keep people more safe. When we are all safe, everybody wins. Fill out the petition linked here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Let’s shape the future of Illinois transit together! Time is running out to register for one of our upcoming virtual public meetings. This is your opportunity to share your ideas and help guide the next phase of Next Move Illinois!

PUBLIC MEETING ALERT: Illinois is updating its Statewide Transit Plan, setting a long term vision for how we fund, expand & improve public transportation across the state. Virtual meeting info: Nov 15 at 10am Nov 18 at 12pm Nov 18 at 7pm Register & PLEASE SHARE: idot.illinois.gov/transportati...

One thing I have marveled at is the way that crowds have been disciplined in capturing immigration enforcement’s lack of discipline.

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Now's a good time for Illinois residents to take advantage of a unique right we have to be removed from Clearview's database. Scroll down to IL opt-out here: www.clearview.ai/privacy-and-...

Under the radar election result, Charlotte Transit Funding Passed!! www.wfae.org/politics/202...

Populist Dems won. Moderate Dems won. We won in blue states. We won in purple states. Maybe the take is that (a) people think Trump is out of control; and (b) people like Dems when we're taking a stand and fighting for what we believe in - as we have been for the last month.

Flexiposts and Sharrows, one of my favorite costumes from critical mass last night. #BikeChi

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🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

Loved the live music at #MeetOnMilwaukee! @aldermanlaspata.bsky.social

I sent emails to my legislators to save transit in Illinois actionnetwork.org/letters/yimb...

This is located in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, close to Fullerton and Sheffield. It's a densely populated area near DePaul University. I'm pleased to see the community standing up against these despicable individuals.

(from the inbox) Less than an hour later this morning, just before 10:30 at Roscoe and Harding, feds again released gas as they were driving away, unobstructed, from a relatively small number of neighbors.

approximately seven million people were out in the streets protesting last week. these people need to grow a spine. www.ft.com/content/1377...

Today would be a great day for the city to crack down on illegally tinted windows.

Its rush hour and @chicagocta.bsky.social has *22* Minute gap on the Division bus during rush hour. Its the beginning of the line and there’s 3 busses within 1/4 mile of each other just ahead. Do better CTA

Two weeks after the Sun-Times first requested information about federal immigration vehicles with questionable plates, Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has launched a hotline to report license plate tampering. trib.al/fH4dXfC

Subtle metaphor for America.

Are there 4 batteries on this e-bike?! #BikeChi

In case you don't want nonsense polluting your feed:

ALERT: IL Rep Sanalitro of Carol Stream has submitted 2 bills (HB4159 & HB4158) that would outlaw all ebikes ridden without a driver's license, & would effectively ban them from all bicycle infrastructure. Please let her office know that these bills are bad for Illinois. ilga.gov/House/Member...

Congestion on the bike lanes, good problem to have! (though folks could also stop two abreast) #BikeChi

From the other site, AVs are coming. waymo.quorum.us/campaign/ill...

Never seen bay windows flank the corner of a building like this before

Flex post bump outs are fine if they have a rock in the middle to stop cars

The silver lining for MAGA of the failed 2020/21 coup was that it revealed all the points in the system that prevented them from succeeding, and they and their allies have spent the last 5 years slowly buying, winning, or destroying each and every one of them

CPD just relieved feds from this line too. Then a moment later the feds gassed the whole area, including the cops.

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

Tried calling @govpritzker.illinois.gov and it goes straight to voicemail

I’m so struck by this video. A regular day in Logan Square in front of a grocery store and ICE pulls up and tear gassed people. Funston Elementary School is right across the street as well. This is a major corridor in Logan Sq. No concern for human safety Video from: www.reddit.com/r/chicago/co...

Il-09 and IL-07 are gonna prove we need RCV at least in primaries next year and the Chicago Mayoral race in 2027 is gonna prove (yet again) that we need RCV for municipal races. The 2 round system is not good enough for the mayoral race

A people who are tolerant of a couple innocent fishermen drone-struck here, a couple U.S. citizens wrongfully arrested or even deported there, a couple immigrants shot or brutally beaten, are going to be tolerant of more, and more, and more, until suddenly we're in "how could we have" territory

How come every time someone proposes a multi-unit building we have to hear about the nimby crusade against it for ten years but when some rich asshole wants to erase 8 homes for one mansion it’s crickets until the demolition fence is up

Proposals are better when you ride away in a Cargo bike #Amsterdam

Intentionally walking Michael Busch in the 8th inning to prevent him from a chance of hitting The Cycle is such a cardinals move 👎 #Cubs

It’s crazy to think that for the first 16 years of my life I was completely dependent on my parents to go anywhere beyond my neighborhood. When I have kids, I don’t want to be responsible for that, for that long. Kids should have more independence.

The amount of cargo bikes there are in Amsterdam now is astounding

This is what crossings in front of schools should look like. Raised crossing, short crossing distance, 20mph speed limit, close street trees for calming, protected bike lane, two-way road narrows to a pinch point / cars have to slow down and take turns.

Thoughts on “mini-busses” for less frequented routes