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Suburbanite. Sustainable transportation advocacy, for Chicago and Chicagoland. #BuildTheTunnel “The smart, transit-oriented Twitter account” – Chicago Tribune

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#2034sight is our bold 10-year vision to launch proper regional rail train service in Chicagoland. These 5 projects – including #BuildTheTunnel – would create 6 new CrossTowner routes, dramatically expanding our transit network’s reach for a fraction of the cost of new ‘L’ lines.
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If bigger vehicles are safer, may I interest you and your family in transit?
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Ignore this at your own risk. Do not put your family in a small car. Yesterday, my wife was driving my son to school and an oncoming delivery truck crossed the center lane and hit her head on — the driver had a seizure was going 40 mph. I was on my way to work in a separate
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The most Canadian thing I experienced in Toronto was this land acknowledgment near the Leafs/Raptors arena but for CN instead of a native group
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If Vallas hurries he can make the 9:42 SWS train instead of waiting for the 11:42
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Making cars bigger and heavier with giant batteries will cause more secondary problems than we can even begin to imagine
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You don't need to be an engineer to know this isn't good. You can literally see the Amtrak train tracks through the floor of this Hell’s Kitchen parking garage. It’s suspended Amtrak service from Penn to Albany.
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Nothing says “we’re serious” quite like showing renderings that frequently misspell the name of the city
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7 months
You can put it on the board….YES! EXCLUSIVE: Related Midwest and the Chicago White Sox pitch for a stadium in the South Loop’s 78! Renderings of the ballpark. Site master plan. Projected economic impact. WGN-TV News at 6.
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Sure could, but to reach proper economies of scale they’d have to be some pretty big vehicles. Like, say, a bus of some sort
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Could a ride-sharing network help get Chicago students to school? @illinoisanswers reports:
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When you’re straight on Transit Twitter
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christopher
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if you tweet about bikes, trains, or housing I just assume you’re gay until proven otherwise
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As a local I’m gonna let you all in on a little-known Chicago secret: we have an entire train network designed almost exclusively around getting people into and out of downtown, like the trains are so good at that specific travel pattern that it’s a fault
@WBBM1059Traffic
#ChicagoTraffic NewsRadio 105.9 WBBM
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Avoid Downtown tonight, at all costs, unless you want to be stuck in an eternal parking lot! As you can see here, everyone near the Jane Byrne interchange is sitting on the expressways & side streets. All ramps into downtown are closed. #ChicagoTraffic @WBBMNewsradio
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A true Alpha only cares about three things
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3 years
Five years ago: “Think of how much safer we’ll all be with autonomous vehicles” Today: “‘Legal driving off’ is a setting you can select”
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3 years
I guess "Road Rage Mode" didn't fit on the screen
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I wonder what these symbols on this sign mean
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7 months
Unbelievable. 76 West over an HOUR delay due to construction only 1 Lane at Montgomery Drive. It’s 915pm. Wonder why no one comes into the city for dinner anymore??
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6 years
In this picture there are more people on the Metra train than on the Kennedy
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Colin Hinkle
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6 years
🤬Chicago traffic🚙🚗
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1 year
“Democrats cheering the charges against Trump may feel differently if a Democrat, perhaps even President Biden, ends up on the receiving end of a similar effort by any of the thousands of elected local prosecutors, eager to make a name for themselves.”
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An underrated aspect of why infrastructure costs more today: we need to go back to not giving a shit about maintenance of traffic, just close the street down, build it, and get stuff moving instead of taking 4x longer so motorists don’t have to drive 2 minutes out of the way.
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Library School Dropout
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Building the Blue Line extension under Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago’s Logan Square, 1968. Photos: Dennis Popiela
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2 years
e-bike charging on the Metra, this is the future liberals want
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2 months
I encourage Dorval Carter to follow President Biden’s courageous lead
@capitolfax
Capitol Fax
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2 months
Biden announces withdrawal from reelection
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5 months
A bus operator **died while in service** at a bus turnaround and no one at the CTA even noticed the bus didn’t move for well over half an hour. The CTA’s total apathy to their own operations has now literally claimed a life. There’s no coming back from this.
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Manny Ramos
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1 hour. That's how long a CTA employee sat in the driver seat of their bus before being found unconscious. They later died. I looked into what happened that night and how a stalled bus, that missed over 50 scheduled stops, never raised any red flags.
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I encourage everyone upset about toll roads to take the appropriate Free Market approach and stop driving on them
@publicpolicyman
Mark Weyermuller
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8 months
The Illinois tollway system may be the biggest money laundering operation in the state. The roads are built yet the tolls were not eliminated. All a scam to get campaign contributions from venders and contractors. BTW, gas tax pays for roads so we are doubled tax.
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Today, someone from NY or CA or wherever will go to Oak St and experience for the first time the unique sandy beach in the heart of downtown and fall in love with this city. But IDOT/CDOT want to demolish it so someone driving from Wilmette could maybe save up to 6 minutes.
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Barry Butler Photography
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This year, Chicago's Oak Street Beach was named by Travel and Leisure as one of the best beaches in the US. It appears all these people on Sunday would agree. #summer #chicago
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IDOT and CDOT want to get rid of the current Oak Street Beach and move it a block or two further away from downtown so drivers on NDLSD can save a maximum of six minutes.
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Barry Butler Photography
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This year, Chicago's Oak Street Beach was named by Travel and Leisure as one of the best beaches in the US. It appears all these people on Sunday would agree. #summer #chicago
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9 months
Baltimore shut their entire light rail network down, inspected and repaired every single light rail vehicle they have, and got the system back up and running all within the CTA’s (ongoing) Yellow Line outage
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Photo credit: @jahorne
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@the_transit_guy
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“Third places” are public spaces outside of your home and work where you normally hang out in your community. Where is your third place?
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The “nationwide operator shortage” isn’t because “no one wants to work”, it’s because the hurdles to get a job as an operator at most transit agencies are stupidly high
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Marcus McKnight
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It just amazes me how transit agencies talk about how there's not enough operators to fill runs nationwide and then you charge people money to apply for the job in NYC. Make that make sense. @MTA please get rid of this.
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9 months
Mayor Johnson was elected 8 months ago today. The CTA still has no actual plan to get rail operator staff levels back up to budgeted levels, no timeline to fix the Forest Park Branch slow zones that doubled in the last six years, and is radio silent on reopening the Yellow Line.
@FireDorvalC
Has Dorval Carter Been Fired Yet?
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Good morning, December 4, 2023, no, Dorval Carter has not been fired yet.
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4 months
Love the sentiment, hate that every shot in the video has the Mayor's SUV motorcade following right along with him
@ChicagosMayor
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Rain, sleet, or snow, we bike in Chicago! Happy Bike to Work Week!
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If I told you back in March that in December the Mayor of Chicago would be using non-union labor to build a tent city to house migrants while giving CPD a 5% raise, you would’ve asked me how many points Vallas ended up winning by
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Union says Pritzker office intervention at least temporarily prevented likely construction shutdown at migrant camp
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@TransitThinker
Jamie
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yikes, the GTA will soon have three rapid transit stations named "Eglinton". Could be confusing for new riders. Wayfinding should really be done on a regional scale
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If you told me 5 years ago that Chicago-area transit would be facing an existential crisis and the only one of the service boards that seems to grasp the severity of the situation and the need to adapt and survive was **Metra**, no way in a million years would I have believed it
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During the shutdown for the Yellow Line crash the CTA was telling people to take a bus that last operated in 2018, so that’s fun
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9 months
Our institutional guardrails have all broken down because no one cares. The CTA is led by someone clearly apathetic about operations; the board to which he ostensibly serves is similarly apathetic; and the mayor who appoints most of the board seems to care the least.
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a matt
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i’m so fucking tired of this bullshit
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If too many people are trying to get to the beach, we should force the cars to turn back, not the buses
@ctaalert
CTA service alerts
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[Minor Delays / Reroute] Due to extremely heavy traffic and crowding, Eastbound 72 North Ave buses will only provide service up to North Ave/Clark.
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The entirety of the Blue Line has only six active trains on it, including zero southbound trains right now beyond Western
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I don’t understand the first thing about quantum computing but a billion-dollar investment on the Southeast Side to bring hundreds of new jobs three blocks away from the Metra Electric is a total win for the city, county, and state
@PsiQuantum
PsiQuantum
@PsiQuantum
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We’re thrilled to partner with Illinois @GovPritzker + @ChicagosMayor to announce that @PsiQuantum will anchor the new Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park and build the first US-based utility-scale quantum computer in Chicago, Illinois.
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@StarLineChicago
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Normalize building tall buildings on top of subway stations
@ChicagoDPD
Chicago DPD
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Plan Commission approved LPC Chicago LLC's proposed development at North Avenue, Clybourn Avenue, and Halsted Street in Lincoln Park. The $175 million project would construct a 37-story building with 396 mixed-income residences and 2,500 square feet of retail space.
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2 years
Our central business district is literally named after the transit service that serves it
@mattstegman
Matt Stegman
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2 years
Tell me the mayor has given up on @cta without telling me - @streetsblogchi
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3 years
A 30-Day CTA/Pace Pass costs $75, if you’re spending $92 on gas in the city you’re doing it wrong
@JoanieLum
Joanie Lum FOX 32
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3 years
Filling a Jeep Cherokee with gas in Chicago. That total is shocking. #gasprices @fox32news
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CTA committing one of the cardinal sins of inaccessibility: when you have two escalators and one is broken, the working one should always be going up, not down
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@kduggan16
Kevin Duggan
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1 year
Brooklyn Dem boss Rodneyse Bichotte-Hermelyn is here saying she understands the need for safety, but also the need to keep traffic flowing and the economy going
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Today is Day 0️⃣0️⃣4️⃣1️⃣ of the Yellow Line shutdown. In 2014, it only took a week to reopen O’Hare after the Blue Line crash.
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By far the worst part of everything’s that’s going on with the CTA is that it’s entirely self-inflicted. It never used to be this bad, and after making riders suffer over the last four years, it’s clear nothing’s getting better. The issues are the same, with zero accountability.
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@StarLineChicago
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2 years
When properly managed, this transportation artery could move 43,000 people an hour The Ike is also pictured
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10 months
"Huh, so *this* is what Howard looks like" - Dorval Carter, probably
@ssmiller
Stephen Miller
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10 months
@cta President Dorval Carter says Yellow Line train driver injured in crash yesterday is out of surgery and doing better. Carter and NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy, along with Mayor Johnson and Gov Pritzer, are touring the crash site. @WBBMNewsradio
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Personally I don’t think we should allow police officers to drive SUVs at high rates of speed through any crowded park full of kids, but I guess that’s a controversial opinion now
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CTA opening Damen Green the day after crapping the bed with Lollapalooza service is a pitch-perfect encapsulation of Dorval Carter’s tenure at the helm: a well-intentioned focus on capital improvements while letting operations fall apart at the seams.
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4 months
Park district restrooms should not be seasonal
@TylerLaRiviere
Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere
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4 months
Kinda wild to me that it’s May 6th and we’ve had numerous amazing weather days in Chicago the last month or so, but the restrooms along the lakefront are still closed.
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No small plans: here’s a 10-year plan for regional rail. #2034sight
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We got passed by Los Angeles. In 2019 we buried LA Metro’s ridership by **84 million rides**. And now they passed us. This is Dorval Carter’s #MeetingTheMoment legacy.
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APTA
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It's #SpotifyWrapped time! In our version of #TransitWrapped , see the U.S. public transportation agencies with the highest ridership between Sept. '23 and Oct. '22. 1. @MTA 2.8 Billion 2. @metrolosangeles 280 Million 3. @cta 270 Million 4. @wmata 243 Million 5. @MBTA 239 Million
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8 months
Your think tank is named after an island that bans cars
@MackinacCenter
Mackinac Center
@MackinacCenter
8 months
Mass transit isn't the commuter magnet it's thought to be. Despite massive spending, only 3% of Americans use it for daily commutes.
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@StarLineChicago
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Let's all take a step back here: if it's a dome, why does it need to be on the lakefront
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10 months
There's like half a dozen people who all had to screw up for something like this to happen
@JHudsontraffic
Jeanette Hudson
@JHudsontraffic
10 months
CTA Yellow Line train crashed into a piece of railroad construction equipment near Howard Station. Multiple people injured. Several ambulances, fire trucks, & CTA crew members working to get everyone off the 2 train cars. Chicago Ave is blocked between Howard & Oakton.
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@StarLineChicago
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2 years
Well, when a bungalow and a 3-flat love each other very much…
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Well folks, we've joked about it for so long, but the CTA finally did it: #HalfHourHeadways scheduled on the Blue Line. #MeetingTheMoment
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Line out the door, as it should be
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4 months
It has come to my attention that, for $36.95, you can purchase the most useless transit map ever created
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Yellow Line Map Poster

"Yellow Line Map" Poster measures x inches ( x cm) for $36 unframed or framed in a black, silver or gold frame for an additional $.

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@StarLineChicago
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2 years
This bridge (Peterson UP-N) already got rehabbed last year and the Google StreetView even shows it under construction, stop chasing clout with outdated posts
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Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

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@mcsquared34
MC Squared
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2 years
34,000 passengers a day ride across this bridge in Chicago
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The latest at Dorval Carter’s CTA: apparently the CTA didn’t renew their safety inspection certification, so the Village of Oak Park has condemned the elevator at Harlem/Lake
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“Wow, three tracks with no freight, you guys must run a lot of passenger service here!” “Yeah, weekday mornings we run up to seven trains an hour.” “Sweet. What about the rest of the time?” “Huh?” “You know, midday, evenings, weekends…” “…what?”
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@StarLineChicago
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Dorval's a nice guy. I'm sure he's a great husband and father too. But we aren't paying him $376,000 a year to be a nice guy or a good husband and father. We're paying him $376,000 a year to effectively oversee the Chicago Transit Authority. In that role, he is not effective.
@NikHunder
Nik Hunder
@NikHunder
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Alder justifications for blocking this: "...Done nothing immoral, unethical or illegal" "I dare my colleague to take that resolution to that man’s wife and children" "But I'm just not in the business of taking food off people’s table"
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@StarLineChicago
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Heading south out of River North after midnight, swerving up onto the curb, striking two pedestrians and killing one, but no need for a BAC test, huh
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@Suntimes
Chicago Sun-Times
@Suntimes
9 months
JUST IN: An off-duty Chicago cop fatally struck a woman early Thursday after becoming distracted because of her phone and veering onto a sidewalk near the House of Blues in River North, according to a police report and sources.
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@StarLineChicago
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Bike the Drive should be every Sunday morning between Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day weekend
@jmisci
Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸
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Imagine Chicago’s tourism boom if our lakefront prioritized PEOPLE—not cars—all year
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@StarLineChicago
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For most of the day, this quad-track, grade-separated, fully-electrified, raised-platform level-boarding train line gets one train an hour.
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Jarrett Walker
@humantransit
6 months
The US leads the world in building public transit infrastructure and then not running much service on it. Sometimes the infrastructure is wrong for current needs and deserves abandonment. But usually it's just the scarcity of operating funds.
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
10 months
Me vs. the guy she told me not to worry about
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
2 years
Nothing like a proper Chicago dog in the greatest city in the world
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
9 months
A single inbound train between O’Hare and Clark/Lake. Simply unacceptable.
@bsmcfadden
brandon mcfadden 🛤️
@bsmcfadden
9 months
the @cta is an unserious transit agency. have of scheduled blue line service is running right now.
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
6 months
Periodic reminder: when the CTA started getting complaints about ghost trains from riders who were on the platforms watching trains disappear from trackers because scheduled trains weren’t leaving the terminals on time, their solution was to deactivate the tracker screens
@jbontrager78
Jennifer B.
@jbontrager78
6 months
⁦ @cta ⁩ again, PLEASE stop doing this. It’s insultingly unhelpful considering you never run 100% of scheduled trains ⁦ @ctaaction ⁩
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
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@cta
cta
@cta
5 months
Check out our new Chat with CTA, a chatbot feature on our . This tool offers a convenient new way for you to communicate with us, resolving many questions and concerns within minutes.
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
5 months
Hot take: streetcars are not actually good. Anything less than light rail with a protected, dedicated lane is better handled by buses.
@CDRosa
Carlos Ramirez-Rosa 🇵🇸
@CDRosa
5 months
It would be grand if Chicago brought back our surface line streetcars, like the line on Fullerton Avenue! Or, at minimum, if our city implemented bus rapid transit on major arterial streets like Fullerton and Western Avenues.
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
3 years
Pictured: the most powerful humans in the world
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk
3 years
Defeating traffic is the ultimate boss battle. Even the most powerful humans in the world cannot defeat traffic.
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
3 months
EVs aren't subsidized to save the planet, they're subsidized to save the auto industry
@fifimcfae
party mom
@fifimcfae
3 months
if ppl are getting tax credits and subsidies for buying an EV, i think we should receive subsidies for riding public transit
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
7 months
“Transit Equity” is when you let the West Side rail lines quite literally fall apart
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@cta
cta
@cta
7 months
Transit Equity Day highlights the right of all people and communities to have high-quality public transportation. Equity is at the heart of all we do- from transit services, capital projects, career and contracting opportunities and more.
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
2 years
If you’re jealous of the folks downtown riding the CTA’s Heritage Fleet for their 75th anniversary, Metra will also be running equipment from the 1970s all weekend long
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
1 year
WGN News regrets to inform you that the Lakeview neighborhood has been destroyed as a result of a handful of cars getting vandalized
@WGNNews
WGN TV News
@WGNNews
1 year
Hundreds of teens takeover Lakeview, destroying neighborhood
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
9 months
Chicago grew by an average of 56,900 people a year for *40 years* between 1890 and 1930, and there are about a million fewer Chicagoans today than there was at the city’s population peak in 1950. We need the political will to once again be a welcoming city to new arrivals.
@alex__han
Alex Han
@alex__han
9 months
Municipalities of any size are not equipped to deal with the use of large-scale human trafficking as a political weapon. The state of Illinois and federal government should have known this would happen as they've left Chicago to fend largely for itself.
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
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Are you fucking kidding
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
1 month
@north0fnorth We literally reversed the flow of an entire goddamn river to keep our sewage out of the Lake
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
2 months
Decided, what the hell, I’ll give the Blue Line another chance after literally months of avoiding it like the plague. Of course, I got Dorvaled.
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
5 months
The transit industry as a whole still hasn’t solved the group travel fare “penalty” issue, and it can’t be understated how less competitive transit can be as soon as you’re traveling with even just two or three other people
@HaydenM16
Hayden Ⓜ️
@HaydenM16
5 months
there was a group of 4 tourists at millbrae going to SF theyre about to buy caltrain tickets to use bart, i show them to the bart machines tell them they each need an $3 clipper card and 5.50 fare each way or they can try to get a card on their phones for free they took uber
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
9 months
Can someone please inform LA Metro that there’s a national operator shortage? They don’t seem to have gotten the memo and they keep adding more service instead of letting reliability circle the drain like the CTA’s spent the last three years doing
@metrolosangeles
Metro Los Angeles
@metrolosangeles
9 months
Starting next Sunday, Dec 10, we're also: 🚊 Adding more late night trains on A & E Lines 🚍 Improving many lines to provide more room for riders 📍Details & new timetables:
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
7 months
@ru_proton Small dogs are allowed
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Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
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Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
3 months
You sure you want to talk about systemic racism?
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@JakeSheridan_
Jake Sheridan
@JakeSheridan_
3 months
CTA President Dorval Carter blasts criticism. He told aldermen the CTA is recovering from pandemic woes & described calls for him to be fired as racist and unfair. “This city has a history of attacking and trying to bring down their African American leaders.” (1/3)
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
7 months
Downtown to the airport in 34 minutes with one weird trick
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Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
4 months
A lot of people who are asking “okay, if you fire Dorval Carter, then what?” are I think seriously underestimating how much of an improvement a back-to-basics interim leader who focused only on balancing headways and schedule adherence would be compared to the current status quo
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
1 year
When Taylor Swift wraps up her final show in Chicago tonight, Will County – a county of about 700,000 people – will only be served by a single train making a single stop in the entire county (last ME train, University Park).
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
1 month
“Lollapalooza is easily our highest ridership weekend of the year, and it is our honor to be entrusted with providing music fans a safe and convenient option to and from Grant Park.” -Dorval Carter, 7/29/24
@ctaalert
CTA service alerts
@ctaalert
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[Significant Delays] Blue Line trains are running with delays due to to a shortage of available staff; we're working to run as much service as possible. Allow extra time. More:
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
3 months
Credit where credit is due: no one has done more to encourage cycling in Chicago than Dorval Carter
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Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
3 months
What could possibly go wrong with this on a hot summer day?
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Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
1 year
You won Cook County by 39 points in 2006, how’d that go for your trial
@realBlagojevich
Rod Blagojevich
@realBlagojevich
1 year
How can Trump get a fair trial before a D.C. jury when 93% of the jury pool hates him?
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
9 months
I don't know if we should outsource communications to AI from a company that renders the Loop like this
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@cta
cta
@cta
9 months
We're partnering with Google Public Sector to develop the much-anticipated Chat with CTA chatbot, which will launch early next year. The chatbot will offer a new, convenient way for our riders to quickly communicate with CTA and resolve questions and concerns.
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
8 months
We should be doing more trails-to-rails reconversions
@CycleToronto
Cycle Toronto
@CycleToronto
8 months
What's your least popular opinion about cycling?
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
8 months
We shouldn’t have to beg and plead for the CTA to train enough operators to run scheduled service, but since we do, it’s great to hear that they’re finally coming around to it.
@activetrans
Active Transportation Alliance
@activetrans
8 months
BREAKING: The @cta Board just confirmed that the agency is DOUBLING rail operator training capacity in 2024! This is a BIG step toward rebuilding rail service! We look forward to supporting the agency's goal of training 200 rail operators this year!
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
5 months
Someone needs to remind @ChicagosMayor that the fastest way to punch your ticket as a one-term mayor is by neglecting the city’s transportation network
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
19 days
This is by far the best and the most frustrating part of the DNC: when we want to, we can have something that's pretty darn close to a world-class transit network, but it's clear that generally we simply choose not to, and worse there's no accountability for those who decide that
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
1 year
Hot take: it shouldn't cost a quarter of a billion dollars to rebuild a single existing station
@stevevance
Steven Housing Abundance
@stevevance
1 year
the new State/Lake CTA elevated station is expected to cost $222,250,000, and the federal government is going to pay for 96%, dang
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
1 year
Now that the secret's out that Chicago-Rockford will be a Metra operation, it's important that this and potential subsequent hinterland expansions (cough DeKalb) aren't just dragging a Metra milk run through another county or two. We need a new operational paradigm.
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@brendenmoore13
Brenden Moore
@brendenmoore13
1 year
Gov. Pritzker will be in Rockford tomorrow to announce a new "Metra intercity rail project," per his schedule. $275 million was set aside in the Rebuild Illinois capital program to reestablish passenger rail between the city and Chicago. Sounds like Metra will be named operator.
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
2 years
Here it is, here’s my SD70MACH trigger. The largest, busiest commuter railroad outside of New York shouldn’t be in the business of “saving” a certain type of locomotive, they should be in the business of providing a reliable, modern, efficient fleet for 10 million Chicagolanders.
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
2 months
CTA continues to do everything they can to make the Blue Line just a little worse every day
@matt_weiss_
only Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
@matt_weiss_
2 months
If only one escalator is going to be in service, then it should travel up. Many people heading to ORD with luggage waiting for the elevator. (Kudos to @StarLineChicago for this escalator tidbit)
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
6 months
Hook it right into my veins, this is what #MeetingTheMoment actually looks like, in one succinct sentence
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@RAILMag
RAIL Magazine
@RAILMag
6 months
Currently, speeds are limited to 65 mph, but @metra is exploring up to 90 mph in some sections. IMO, the agency’s vision under CEO Jim Derwinski has been much more ambitious than it had previously.
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@StarLineChicago
Star:Line Chicago
@StarLineChicago
9 months
Today is Day 0️⃣0️⃣3️⃣9️⃣ of the Yellow Line shutdown
@alopex_ii
edgar lee bastards
@alopex_ii
9 months
For an even more relevant comparison: in December 1973, a Skokie Swift had a brake failure coming into Dempster and overshot the terminal, derailing and tipping over before knocking out the overhead catenary used on the line at the time. Service was restored in *2 hours*
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