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That’s half facetious but our failure to build enough housing is costing us major political capital in DC — and electoral votes, the thing that elects presidents.

here’s the thing, if you toll it at this rate, you’ll automatically decrease traffic by limiting entry and exit points (good), and charging drivers what they cost the state to use the road (good) so you no longer need to widen the highway (the best outcome)

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Granted, it also doesn't take 15 minutes to go from Prairie St to Blue Island, so the system works

If we're taking the schedule at its word, that means 117 will overtake 317 on the branch. That seems... unlikely

Truly a warm weather day

What are the odds those are supposed to be stop times at Longwood and Washington Heights rather than on the branch?

Chicago sees the ‘missing middle’ as sweet spot for addressing the city’s housing shortage, repopulating neighborhoods Adding new construction builds density and wealth in areas where affordable housing stock is sorely needed.

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Most Chicagoland residents don't live in Chicago.

Most Chicagoland jobs aren't in the city proper.

The suburbs need reliable, efficient, accessible transit too.

Millions of Chicagolanders live in one suburb and commute to another suburb on trips that are simply impossible on existing transit. As city NIMBYs continue to pull up the ladder behind them by fighting more housing near existing transit, we need to create a reliable, truly regional transit network.

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Transit is a great medium-term way to attack foreign energy dependence, and yet, here we are, shooting ourselves in the foot, again!

There Have Been No Approvals for New Transit Projects in the First Year of the Current Trump Administration

For the 1st time in the 1st year of a presidential administration since at least 1993, under Trump 2, the Federal Transit Administration signed 0 new contracts for major transit projects, like subways or light rail.

The US is facing a crisis of rail transit investment: www.urban.org/urban-wire/r...

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CrossTowner regional rail network diagram showing 2034sight + CRCL Plan improvements

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Real patriots ride the train.

500 households adjacent to a Metra station: infinite traffic

350 new daily commuters: no change to traffic at all

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lol jk they cancelled that one too bsky.app/profile/ctaa...

Cancelling the 3:05pm local instead of the 3:00pm express is certainly a choice

Rail transit network map showing potential CrossTowner regional rail lines

It’s now 3am, I think we should #BuildTheTunnel

The fuck you mean it’s 3am

CORPORATE KING OF THE SUBURBS

It begins

Oh, so USDOT cares about “equity” now, huh

Election is in a week and a half and Forest Park has a parade today, call it a hunch but I think some IL-07 candidates will be in attendance

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CrossTowner regional rail network diagram showing 2034sight + CRCL Plan improvements

Beat the pump, #BuildTheTunnel

Lena Phillips made history as the CTA's first female motorwoman 51 years ago today. As she tells it, she wasn’t trying to make history, but just needed a job at the time.

Here’s to all the women who keep Chicago moving every single day and the ‘L’adies who make history along the way.