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👏🏽👏🏽 Long time coming & huge opportunity for #ETOD to ensure residents near future RLE stations benefit most from the historic investment. Now we need matching investments in community-led, community-owned projects & policy changes to support #ETOD while preventing displacement
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Extending the Red Line will make a real difference for many on Chicago's South Side.
Grateful to our congressional delegation for leading the charge on the start of not only improving public transit access but also creating jobs and economic benefits. news.wttw.com/2024/12/18/cta…
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Madrid’s metro was 71 miles long in 1995. That would be the world’s 51st longest today, reasonable considering Madrid is the 57th largest city by population.
Yet over 12 years, the metro would ~3x in length at costs much lower than was thought possible. Here’s how they did it🧵
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Members of the IL congressional delegation repping Chicagoland announce nearly $2B in critically important funding for the CTA’s Red Line Extension is coming through, money officials had been racing to secure before a second Trump admin @wttw
Transit officials are confident that $1.9B in federal funding for the CTA's Red Line Extension will come through before the end of President Biden's term, but the change in administration could pose other threats to Chicagoland public transportation @wttw news.wttw.com/2024/11/25/rac…
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In 2024, BART hosted a bunch of iconic events, including the Project Doneway fashion show, featuring 35 garments constructed out of BART paper tickets by fashion students at Oakland School for the Arts, Academy of Art, San Francisco State, and City College of San Francisco.
ALT A contestant in the project doneway fashion show. Text: We vibed with our fans A photo of the crowd at sweaterfest
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Governor Pritzker announces new housing initiatives nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1MYxNMPVV…
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🚨Breaking news from Chicago city hall
❌This week, the Zoning Committee voted to reject a proposal to build 615 new homes in Lincoln Park.
🥊 The mayor has chosen to ignore their recommendation. Now the project will be automatically reported on a 'do-pass' recommendation.
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IL is considering implementing “innovative housing solutions” including:
-eliminating bans on ADUs
-turning parking minimums into parking maximums (!) in multifamily zones
-requiring any lot over 5,000 sq ft to allow for multi-unit development
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All aboard the @CTA Holiday Train!
ALT Governor Pritzker rides the Holiday Train.
ALT Governor Pritzker takes pictures with constituents on the Holiday Train.
ALT Governor Pritzker takes pictures with the Christmas elves on the Holiday Train.
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You may see something new on Bus Tracker this week—it's part of our battle against ghost buses.
We're testing the ability to show when a trip has been canceled. Hopefully you never have to see it, but if you do, it's because we're working to get you more accurate real-time info.
ALT A screenshot of the Bus Tracker website. One bus arrival is marked as canceled in red letters, and a second arrival is in eight minutes.
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50 letters for 50 alders each one highlighting local ward fatal crashes and injuries and asking for their support on lowering Chicago’s speed limit to 25 mph. Let’s do this! #SlowDownChi
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To fight climate change, Paris takes aim at 60,000 parking spaces trib.al/CpgrWGi
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New blog post: How Logan Square Shrank
In which I investigate why Logan Square's population has declined even as it's rapidly gentrified, using data on its housing stock and households over time. And discuss what this teaches us about gentrification.
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The CTA board approved the agency's final spending that can use federal COVID relief money to plug a major budget gap -- and called on agency president Dorval Carter to better communicate and collaborate with board members and the public @wttw news.wttw.com/2024/11/13/cta…
