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Chief Innovation Officer Molly Poppe said the agency intends to grow off-peak ridership; expand existing service; improve customer service; and increase advertising. The post The CTA has a four...

https://chi.streetsblog.org/2024/07/05/cta-presents-has-a-four-pronged-plan-for-rebuilding-ridership

• Block Club: Black drivers in Chicago subjected to more than half of police traffic stops, new report finds • Milwaukee resident, 20, has been charged with deadly shooting of man in lates 20...

https://chi.streetsblog.org/2024/07/05/todays-headlines-for-friday-july-4

Enraged drivers assaulted CCM riders blocking intersections on the Near North Side and in Uptown, including shots fired. What's the right way forward? The post There’s no shame in the Critica...

https://chi.streetsblog.org/2024/07/03/no-shame-on-critical-mass-corking-but-after-violence-two-months-in-a-row-lets-increase-the-peace

• Dorval on defense: Embattled CTA chief tours system with members of City and State Black caucuses, Tiktoker Sherman “Dilla” Thomas (Tribune) • 11 suffered non-life threatening injuries...

https://chi.streetsblog.org/2024/07/03/todays-headlines-for-wednesday-july-3-2

According a survey focused on bike parking, respondents overwhelmingly preferred the addition of secure, indoor bike storage at Union Station. The post Chicago Union Station concourse overhaul ...

https://chi.streetsblog.org/2024/07/02/amtraks-union-station-concourse-overhaul-to-include-expanded-bike-parking-options

• Public hearings coming soon on plan to consolidate CTA, Metra, Pace, including 7/9, 10 AM at 160 N. La Salle, Chicago (Daily Herald, Ben Szalinski) • Block Club: Milwaukee Avenue’s reope...

https://chi.streetsblog.org/2024/07/02/todays-headlines-for-tuesday-july-2-2

" falling behind in a post-COVID world," the report's creators say. The post TransitCenter’s updated Transportation Equity Dashboard finds Chicago transit access is trailing peer cities ap...

https://chi.streetsblog.org/2024/07/01/transitcenters-updated-transportation-equity-dashboard-finds-chicago-transit-access-is-trailing-peer-cities

• CTA passenger in his late 20s shot to death, bus driver wounded in shoulder during altercation Monday around 12:14 AM on 3400 block of S. State (ABC) • WBBM discusses the reinstallation of...

https://chi.streetsblog.org/2024/07/01/todays-headlines-for-monday-july-1-2

An attendee credited previous Streetsblog coverage of the controversial project with helping to draw the big turnout. The post Many sustainable transportation advocates showed up for the last m...

https://chi.streetsblog.org/2024/06/29/many-sustainable-transportation-advocates-showed-up-for-the-final-meeting-on-the-controversial-church-street-bikeway-plan

The commuter rail system provides easy, generally ADA accessible, access to suburbs like Geneva that offer shopping, dining, and other activities within walking or rolling distance of the station...

https://chi.streetsblog.org/2024/06/28/day-trippers-my-kid-with-special-needs-and-i-rode-metra-to-geneva-for-a-riverside-bicycle-adventure