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Dominick’s! For people who know their food.
The earliest renderings for the 5000-series continued to call for faux wood paneling, but it was ultimately nixed. 😅
*Sips iced latte.*
It’s sunny out, at least. So I’m happy.
URGENT ACTION NEEDED:
Mayor Johnson's 2026 bond proposal defunds safe streets infrastructure by a whopping 70% – putting our communities in jeopardy by threatening the progress we've made in preventative infrastructure.
Email him and your alderperson today and tell them to reverse course!
The Salvation Army is not a charity. They are an evangelical church that uses donated money to actively oppress gay rights. They've been especially cruel to trans people.
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
From CDOT and Alderman Julia Ramirez (12th Ward): Community Meeting: Tuesday November 25 6pm - 8pm The Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) and Ald. Ramirez are hosting a virtual informational session to provide updates on the Archer Ave and Kedzie Ave corridor improvements. CDOT will provide an overview & constructions of the corridor for both Archer and Kedzie Ave. Q & A after the informational session. Please fill out the google form before Saturday, November 22nd by 7pm. For more information contact our office at: 773-475-6783 Ward12@cityochicago.org
En español
A map of newly planned (now in construction) and future proposed bike corridors in Brighton Park, Gage Park, and McKinley Park. NEW BIKE ROUTES ARE COMING: BRIGHTON PARK, GAGE PARK, & MICKINLEY PARK The Chicago Department for Transportation (CDOT) and the 12th Ward have partnered with a group of community leaders to identify and build a CONNECTED NETWORK OF BIKE ROUTES in Brighton Park, Gage Park, and Mckinley Park. These new bike routes wil connect neiahbors to community-identified destinations including: schools, parks, local businesses, and other important destinations so residents of the southwest side have safe, healthy, and fun options for getting around. A connected network of bike routes can IMPROVE ACCESSIBILITY, SAFETY, PUBLIC HEALTH, and overall quality of life. Making streets in the sournwestside more comfortable for biking will improve the salety and accessibility for evervone, no matter it they are walking. biking. taking transit. or driving IN 2024, CDOT WILL BEGIN INSTALLING NEW PROJECTS ON ARCHER, KEDZIE, AND ROCKWELL. Next year, we will continue expanding the bike network within the Brighton Park, Gage Park, and mckinley park neighborhoods chicago.gov/completestreets
The SW side needs support from #bikechi
CDOT and Ald. Ramirez (12) are hosting a virtual info session and Q&A for updates on the Archer Ave and Kedzie Ave PBLs in construction in Brighton Park.
Tues. 11/25, 6-8pm
More: bit.ly/archerkedzie
Register by Sat., 11/22 at 7pm: forms.gle/yJMa3cFU8ftN...
The Broadway upzoning passes the land use commission 15-2. Loud cheers break out
In NYC, the OMNY system (same vender as Chicago’s Ventra system!) charges the same price regardless of how you pay (no OMNY card or pre-paid fares required) AND caps the fare cost so you never pay more than the price of a weekly pass.
Proposed fare budget chart, showing new fare structure effective 2/1/2026. Relevant proposed line items are “Full Bus Fare: $2.50”, “Full Rail Fare: $2.75”, “Full Fare Cash (bus only): $2.75”, and “PAYGO: $3.00 bus/$3.00 rail”
“Pay as you go” (PAYGO) fares will be $3 on both bus and rail, requiring you to open a Ventra account and load pre-paid fare value for the best price. This goes against the entire point of having an “open fare” system if you penalize riders for taking advantage of the “open” part.
While MTA offers fare caping on NYC subways and buses, CTA wants to go in the opposite direction. Taping to pay with a bankcard or mobile wallet will cost extra in their proposed budget, making the system more expensive and less accessible to occasional riders. www.transitchicago.com/finance/
PJM acting like that first-year Chicagoan who foolishly takes out their window unit after the first cool stretch in early September.
I feel like I’ve gotten more hourly price alert notifications this month than I did during peak summer.
Unfortunately that one has been there for years, I’ve seen it before. 😔 I recall CTA installing some when they planned rear door boarding during Covid. Good news is that all the newest buses are pre-wired for rear door readers.
An image showing the entrance to the new Argyle Red Line station with three screens, one showing normal service on all elevated lines, one showing a few elevator outages among the massive number CTA has across the system, and one showing any active or upcoming service alerts in place of paper alerts as a person enters the turnstiles. Arrival information is also showing overhead.
Long but hopefully fulfilling transit nerd thread incoming:
I want to talk about that I’m super proud of, and which is a culmination of things we’ve done in the past as well as things I’ve seen elsewhere that I wanted to bring home to Chicago: New digital at RPM stations that we hope to expand!
These turned out fantastic. I love seeing that green checkmark every time I walk into Bryn Mawr, assuring me I’m not going to encounter an unexpected situation. Great work!
I noticed the same thing last Saturday! I was trying to figure out where we were while stopped for single tracking. “Oh, somewhere in this five mile radius, okay.”
ACTUALLY what is driving the surge is DRIVERS SPEEDING.
The intersection of Broadway and Winnemac, showing “paint and post” bumpouts at the corners.
Looking west on Winnemac from Broadway, showing dashed yellow lines for a contraflow bike lane along with dashed placeholders for future markings and green paint.
A family with three children on bikes wait for the light at Clark and Winnemac from the new contraflow lane.
Dashed advisory bike lanes seen on Winnemac looking east from Ravenswood.
With Granville wrapping up, work has now begun on the new Winnemac Greenway! This involves a one-way conversion between Clark and Broadway (contraflow lane is striped, but no one-way signage just yet). There are advisory lanes west of Ashland.
My first thought as well. I’m holding out hope that a couple of raised intersections planned on Glenwood will be better.
It failed for me because there was technically one dock still open but they all looked full at first glance when I pulled up
Looking east at Granville and Clark, with newly installed “Do Not Enter, Except Bicycles” signage
Looking west at Granville and Clark, with newly installed “Do Not Enter, Except Bicycles” signage
Looking east at Granville and Ridge, with newly installed “Do Not Enter, Except Bicycles” and “No left turn, Except Bikes” signage
A raised concrete crosswalk at Granville and Glenwood, with bicycle sharrows on the pavement
The Granville traffic safety project is almost complete. The biggest change is strategic one-way (vehicular) conversions at Broadway, Clark, and Ridge to prevent cut-through traffic. No more turns onto Granville from Clark and all vehicles on Granville must turn at Clark.
Much (all?) of this stretch already has a 20mph limit, including further north through Andersonville
no human is illegal unless they want to live in apartments in my neighborhood
A concrete raised crosswalk with red stamped brick pattern, met by existing sidewalk ramps with a downward slope.
Raised crosswalk with French drains at Roscoe & Elaine. Would be better if CDOT redid the ramps and kept the grade consistent for pedestrians.
“Sorry, we can’t have more housing because 0.05% of people in the Ward said no.”
So this means you’ll finally support fare caping like New York City, right?
Pedestrian perspective of a concrete intersection with clearly defined curbs and pedestrian ramps at the crosswalk
Same perspective, looking south, at a concrete intersection with clearly defined curbs and pedestrian ramps at the crosswalk
Here it is, CDOT’s completed “raised intersection” and Damen/Winnemac.
They’ll be on Reddit tomorrow complaining that someone put a sticker on their car, leaving out the crucial detail of where they were parked
Last I checked the pavement markings were never installed for the new camera on Broadway in Edgewater. Had me wondering if it was a requirement or just a “nice to have”.