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@pes10k

6 months

My only personal improvement goal for 2024 is to muster the personal courage to key the shit out of cars that do this You’re blocking both lanes; Your forcing bikes to bike against traffic in the car lane; may you never see the light of heaven

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@pes10k

6 months

Personally, I don’t think Sheriffs should blatantly break the law (and force south bound bikers into oncoming traffic) It’d be nice to at least pretend we lived in a city where people trusted to follow the law, also followed the law

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@pes10k

1 year

Not sure what this nonsense is in the dearborn bike lane, but if anyone is near Madison and Deerborn I’ll be here for a bit if folks wanna help haul it out

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@pes10k

3 months

This is the tragedy of the current @cta Not only have they decimated the system, but they’ve convinced transit fans that good transit in Chicago might not even be possible If you moved here in the last 6 years, I promise, it could, and was, SO much better. Failure is a choice

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@Beeutiful21

3 months

Are all the bones there for 5minute headways? Is that possible in Chicago?

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@pes10k

2 months

At least as far back as "urban renewal" and the urban highway boom, governors have been committed to the idea that "cities must prioritize suburbanites over city residents" Its a major reason US cities lag behind other global cities, which prioritize urbanism and local residents

Rebecca C. Lewis

@_rebeccaclewis

2 months

"I have directed the MTA to indefinitely pause (the congestion pricing) program," Gov. Kathy Hochul confirms

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@pes10k

2 years

What better way to celebrate @bikelaneuprise being back up Cant quite put my finger on it, but I have this nagging feeling that @CPD_Media might not actually be serious about following and upholding the law

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@pes10k

1 year

Took 30 minutes to get into the Milwaukee bike lane meeting, and had a long long line of folks behind me. People are desperate for safe streets (and, amazingly, seem hopeful too)

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@pes10k

11 months

I don’t know what’s changed, but I saw a cop car at wabash and Roosevelt today playing a prerecorded message saying something like” cars cannot rest or park in the bike lane; move them or you’ll be ticketed and towed” Cars were clearing the bike lane. Holy heck this rules

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@pes10k

1 year

Update! Another friendly biker stopped by and the two of us got it right. #bikechi fucking rules 💪🏻

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@pes10k

1 year

Not sure what this nonsense is in the dearborn bike lane, but if anyone is near Madison and Deerborn I’ll be here for a bit if folks wanna help haul it out

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@pes10k

3 months

Honest question: does anyone have a guess for what Johnson's base is for this decision? What part of his voter base wants him to spend $1-2b on a stadium? He must have some incentive to do this right?

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@pes10k

3 months

EXACTLY the kind of opinion that should be disqualifying for a CTA board member. The goal isn't CTA service thats tolerable for people who don't have cars. The goal is CTA service thats desirable enough to get people out of cars.

Alex Nitkin

@AlexNitkin

3 months

Asked about his use of public transit, Acree says he grew up taking the train, and took the bus this morning but doesn't typically use transit these days. "I don't have to take the CTA. I'm fortunate enough to have a car."

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@pes10k

2 months

I’m not a transit expert, but having no buses coming for 27 minutes, and then having three come within 2 minutes of each other, seems like a way to make sure people don’t rely on your system This must be the kind of data you need secret @cta data to analyze

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@pes10k

6 months

@Shredded_teat This is a 360-no-scope tweet

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@pes10k

8 months

@hannahgais Rich dad poor dad? Bill Bryson as a top 2 science book? Brave new world as a top 5 novel?! No way this person didn’t write this while browsing the airport book store

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@pes10k

5 months

There’s a million horrible and terrible things about the US right now, but Chicago hosting (even if insufficiently!) Venezuelan asylum seekers, and the local Chicago-Chinese community welcoming them with a lunar new year celebration, tickles the patriotic part of my heart

Alice Yin

@byaliceyin

5 months

Migrants from the Broadway Armory shelter watch their first lion dance during a Lunar New Year luncheon hosted by Uptown elected officials at Hon Kee:

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@pes10k

1 year

@bikelaneuprise Not even sure how to report this one on the app, since its not a car, but an entire catering company (!) Half a block of bikelane next to the Goodman theater downtown. No option other than to ride on the sidewalk if you're biking south… 🤬

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@pes10k

1 year

I was passing out flyers at the grant park thing tonight and it was fun to see so many people I only know from Twitter profile pics! Thanks for being there and coming out everyone!

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@pes10k

3 months

I’m at the Old Town neighborhood meeting discussing 500 new units, 100 of them affordable.

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@pes10k

7 months

That we subsidize car purchases (electric or otherwise) which have massive and obvious negative externalities, but can’t subsidize and sustain bike share programs (which have massive and obvious positive externalities) makes me need to scream into a pillow

David Zipper

@DavidZipper

7 months

Cincinnati is losing its bikeshare system (at least for now) bc a corporate sponsor didn't renew. Same thing happened in Minneapolis. Why not offer a subsidy? Bikeshare improves health, reduces emissions & mitigates congestion. It's a community benefit!

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@pes10k

8 months

Extremely disappointed that @40thforward (Alder Vasquez) decided not to support upzoning. Instead of 18 new homes (4 of which held as affordable), the lot will remain an (obviously) unaffordable single family home. Really disappointing…

Notice of Intent: 5400 N. Ashland - 40th Ward of Chicago

After consideration of resident feedback, the 40th Ward office is not currently able to support the request for a zoning change from RS-3 to B2-3 at 5400 N Ashland.

40thward.org

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@pes10k

5 months

This is a very bad, politics as horse race piece (I’m a trib subscriber) I’m 10 paragraphs into this piece and I still don’t understand on what LEGAL basis the judge decided against BCH. That seems pretty core to the news!!

Chicago Tribune

@chicagotribune

5 months

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s "Bring Chicago Home" referendum has essentially been booted from the March 19 ballot after a Cook County judge on Friday sided with business and real estate interests who oppose the measure.

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@pes10k

1 year

Sure, anyone in #bikechi can get a photo of a police officer parking in bike lane. But this pic of 3, back to back in the same bike lane feels like a special kinda of Pokémon-snap hell @bikelaneuprise any chance to add the option to add multiple license plates? 😬

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@pes10k

2 months

Recent CTA/RTA news has really highlighted the enormous gap between the Alders who think their responsibility is to ensure city services are provided effectively and efficiently, and the Alders who think their responsibility is to protect people in well-paid leadership positions

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@pes10k

5 months

I’m convinced that Carter isn’t the main problem at the CTA The mayor has no desire to fix the CTA, and Carter’s job security comes from being willing to take the blame for the crisis and shield Johnson The only prayer we have is the state, while organizing against Johnson

Rep.Kam Buckner ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶

@RepKamBuckner

5 months

The @VentraChicago malfunctions this month have been disruptive, inconvenient & have cost our transportation systems money. I’ve asked @CubicTS , the parent company of our open payment system to work w/ @cta to ensure these issues are fixed, @Metra gets its money back &

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@pes10k

2 months

More cool car stuff happening at Ashland and Milwaukee Def def def let’s keep doubling and tripling down on this mode of transportation in Chicago…) (No one was hurt)

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@pes10k

11 months

Incase it wasn’t already obvious why we urgently need to get Chicago bike share out of Lyft’s hands…

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@pes10k

1 year

If “robust community input” is resulting in a system that the city knows will result in non-drivers being killed, then “robust community input” is demonstrably a bad way to design roads

Carlos Ramirez-Rosa 🇵🇸

@CDRosa

1 year

@jenawithonen There was a robust community input process that involved stakeholder & community meetings between 2017-8. The plans for this project were informed & guided by the input gathered at the meetings.

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@pes10k

2 years

@dmtrubman Same, but with empathy and understanding that folks doing anti-social things are often bigger victims that the folks inconvenienced, and that the real goal should be to help and not penalize those folks

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@pes10k

7 months

We have a progressive @ChicagosMayor who wont support public transportation, and progressive aldermen who wont support affordable housing (inc, though certainly not only, @40thforward ). What are we doing here?!!

Block Club Chicago

@BlockClubCHI

7 months

A plan to turn an Andersonville home on Ashland into apartments was denied by the alderman.

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@pes10k

9 months

20 minute headways on the blue line to ORD this morning at 7am. Holy shit, how is it possible Dorval Carter has a job. The CTA crumbles while the police get huge raises. This mayor is now what we voted for

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@pes10k

1 year

@AldReilly anything you can do? This is extremely dangerous since its a two way bikelane on a one way street, and bikers are forced either against traffic or on the sidewalk

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@pes10k

1 year

@mollyfleck Actual literal hell

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@pes10k

3 months

it is max-car-brain to think "the way to fix downtown is to make it easier to drive through" and not "the way to fix downtown is to make more locations people might want to drive (or otherwise get) to"

John Greenfield

@greenfieldjohn

3 months

Frequent Trib op-ed writer Ed Bachrach: Pedestrianizing Clark benefits "the few who favor such a closing but ignore[s] the 1,000s who drive downtown on Clark Street every day." Sure, if by "few" he means 3,200+ petition signers.

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@pes10k

11 months

Reminder you can vote against this project every day (every 24 hours). This thing is a giant “fuck them kids” from IDOT. The LEAST we can do is make sure they don’t get a trophy for it

IDOT_Illinois

@IDOT_Illinois

11 months

IDOT is thrilled to announce the reconstruction and modernization of the Jane Byrne Interchange is a finalist for America’s Transportation Awards, a top honor for state departments of transportation.

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@pes10k

4 months

I just really like @Metra these days. You all are doing good work

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@pes10k

3 months

If you regularly use a Suburban to get around the very urban city of Chicago, IL, USA, you will never see heaven’s gates

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@pes10k

5 months

My letter to the editor on the importance of ending parking mandates was published in the SunTimes!

Get rid of parking mandates that keep Chicago car-centric

Parking mandates make new housing more expensive to build and keep us from improving the city's public transportation system.

chicago.suntimes.com

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@pes10k

7 months

How should people who live in Chicago, and want to move to Andersonville, advocate for that position? Do they get no say? Or folks who cant currently afford housing generally? ward-by-ward housing policy is a catastrophe and leads progressive alders to defend regressive policies

The Supreme Court is Corrupt

@NWChiFiets

7 months

Chicago housing development process is so jacked up. More housing - especially affordable housing - benefits ALL city residents, but you only get a say in proposals for your neighborhood.

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@pes10k

2 years

New way to be a shit head re the bike lane just dropped (this car is parked, no driver, no blinkers)

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@pes10k

5 months

Got buzzed on clyborn by this jag. Not only is the car terrifyingly large but, bonus, the owner couldn’t fit the snowblower in the truck, so had to add an extra ramp to even get the snowblower down to the ground No one who drives these cars will go to heaven

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@pes10k

11 months

AITA? Im in therapy group (Zoom). Guy calls in while driving on *highway*, talking and watching on video during group session. I said this is dangerous, to the person & others on the road. Can we turn video off *at least*? Group looks at me like im speaking latin, i leave call

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@pes10k

1 year

Not sure how to report this one on @bikelaneuprise 😅

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@pes10k

3 months

This is the 7th (!) meeting. You couldn’t imagine a better example of why there is a housing crisis here

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@pes10k

4 months

River north used to have a pretty clever, popular idea for this actually, until the city killed it for reasons they can’t agree on

Crain's Chicago Business

@CrainsChicago

4 months

Opinion: We need to give people a reason to linger in the Loop

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@pes10k

7 months

@alopex_ii the craziest part is that you entered it from the fast lane, and you had to exit the parking lot and merge directly into the fast lane. A thrilling, terrifying trip for fries every time

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@pes10k

3 months

A call is worth 10 personalized emails A personalized email is worth more than 10 form emails Calling takes 60 seconds and alder staff is typically very kind if you are Give um a call and politely let your alder’s office know what you think

Star:Line Chicago

@StarLineChicago

3 months

17th Ward, call your alder

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@pes10k

2 months

Chicago is a way way way better, more welcoming, more supportive place for queer people than almost any other city in the USA, it’s on the short list Housing policy that makes it easier for people to move to Chicago, out of need, desire, or curiosity, is queer-supporting policy

Urban Environmentalists IL

@UrbanEnviroIL

2 months

#HappyPrideMonth , Illinois! 🏳️‍🌈 Abundant housing ensures that LGBTQ+ individuals can afford to live in inclusive, welcoming communities. 🌇🌇🌇

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@pes10k

6 months

Maybe a new record in shitty driver bike lane behavior Dude is parked in two bike lanes and a cross walk, making people bike against traffic, and having a smoke outside the car It’s bananas that there isn’t concrete for the loop part of the dearborn bike lane

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@pes10k

3 months

i have sympathy for Carter; managing the @cta over the last 5 years must be tremendously difficult But he refuses to ack the very urgent problems the CTA has now w/ new plans to fixed them Instead we get perfunctory "things are good. We're on the right track etc" Thats not okay

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@pes10k

1 year

I don't know if its coincidence or causation, but holy heck since the election we're getting a lot of great biking news in Chicago, after a *long* drought under our previous mayor. We're still way behind where we need to be, but increasing reasons for optimism!

Diverter Dyke🇨🇩🇵🇸🇸🇩🇭🇹

@FullLaneFemme

1 year

Looks like Leavitt will become a better bike route from 🙏🏾 I love taking this as an alternative to Damen #bikechi

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@pes10k

11 months

@streetsblogchi @ChicagoDOT @LamontJRobinson @AldReilly @bikelaneuprise @bikegridnow @activetrans This car is owned by the person directing traffic. I’ve watched the person in the orange vest enter and exit the car twice. How is this possibly okay? @LamontJRobinson is there anything you can do to make sure people doing traffic control aren’t parking in the lanes?

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@pes10k

6 months

@BikeSlutty also with no front plate, and a out of state rear plate… definitely was not feeling brave enough

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@pes10k

7 months

We need desperately need more housing in the loop. Housing near transit, housing near State Street. I strongly encourage everyone come to this meeting tomorrow and support more housing in Chicago!

Alderman Lamont J. Robinson

@LamontJRobinson

7 months

‼️Tomorrow‼️ We’ll be meeting at Grace Place at 6pm to discuss a new YMCA & residential building potentially coming to the 4th Ward. See you then!

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@pes10k

1 year

This thing is heavy as hell. Doesn’t seem like something an individual would do on a whim

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@pes10k

1 year

@slucy @balupuppy @bikelaneuprise Reported / emailed, thanks for the info @slucy !

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@pes10k

4 months

@BlockClubCHI @LamontJRobinson if this isn't a sign we desperately need change in CTA leadership, I can't imagine what is. I hope you will join Alders Martin and Vasquez and can for change at the CTA

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@pes10k

2 months

Just want to highlight and appreciate the exciting, progressive things happening in (parts of) Chicago Progressivism requires change, and few alders are pushing for as much overdue, desperately needed change as Ald. Vasquez, @aldmattmartin , and their coalition ❤️

Ald. Andre Vasquez, Political Account

@Andrefor40th

2 months

Last month, our office introduced a resolution calling for a hearing to explore traffic solutions including #CongestionPricing to the Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety, Chaired by my colleague @DanielLaSpata . It’s clear that this is a conversation that needs to be had!

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@pes10k

8 months

@40thforward Thank you for your reply Alderman. And truly, many of us appreciate much of the great work your office does on other issues Groups like @UrbanEnviroIL are building grassroots support for better housing policies. But we need support from the folks with power too (i.e., you!).

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@pes10k

3 months

Chicago needs world-class transit if we’re going to be a world-class city. Without transit we can’t build the housing that top tier cities provide, and without housing we can’t provide the jobs and culture and entertainment that’s made Chicago punch above its weight for so long

Urban Environmentalists IL

@UrbanEnviroIL

3 months

An unreliable public transit system jeopardizes Chicago's economy, exacerbates our housing crisis, and dooms our climate goals. Urban Environmentalists IL supports the appointment of a CTA President who will address CTA's multiple ongoing crises in a timely, transparent manner.

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@pes10k

4 months

@slucy “heads I win, tails you loose” If street dining was poorly attended, they’d demand the city remove it for being unpopular But its very popular, so they worried that it was unfair to other businesses! Car dependency has created a “nothing can get better” situation in Chicago

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@pes10k

10 months

As a middle age person, the main life hack I wanna pass down to the next generation is: there is nothing you can do better for your quality of life than tip absurdly well at your neighborhood bar. It feels good to do, they appreciate it, and they’ll be glad next time you come in

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@pes10k

3 months

Five stars for the construction workers and designers at @ChicagoDOT installing the concrete dividers at Ashland and Division. The three intersections around the triangle are extremely dangerous, and these will help cool things off a bit. More like this, please!

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@pes10k

2 years

@bikelaneuprise this stretch of the bikelane, by the greyhound station, 100% of the time has cars in it. 0 exceptions. Its infuriating

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@pes10k

4 months

this is fantastic, @ChicagosMayor gets it and understands how ending parking mandates would be great for all of Chicago. Lets keep pushing, lets make this happen. This is wonderful

Chicago Cityscape

@ChiBuildings

4 months

The book says the city will propose an ordinance to eliminate parking mandates citywide. 👍👍👍👍

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@pes10k

2 years

Totally agree. @kambucknerchi might knew his crowd, but holy heck is he on a whole another level. Green had a point when he said “remember who’s been with you from the beginning”, and credit to Green for real, but Kam has been talking sense about this stuff since day one

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@pes10k

6 months

We need more hidden internally entered casual restaurants in chicago! - Pittsfield Cafe - Heaven on 7 - Oasis Cafe What else?

Madeleine

@madeleinedupre

6 months

Feel like I joined a new rank of Chicagoans having finally tried this hidden gem

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@pes10k

1 year

Did not enjoy this trip wire over the Milwaukee bike lane this morning. Driver pretended i wasn't talking to him when i asked him to move it. An alley 2 storefronts down, and right near the side street. @BlankenshipMove , please ask your drivers to be safer! cc @bikelaneuprise

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@pes10k

7 months

I would unironically love to be able to take the water taxi to a Sox game. This would rule

Chicago Sun-Times

@Suntimes

7 months

JUST IN: The White Sox are in "serious talks" about the possibility of building a new ballpark on the South Loop parcel known as “the 78.”

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@pes10k

1 year

Someone in the future: a car just killed by friend by the logan blue line stop Chicago alders: sounds like they should have come to a meeting held 5 years ago. Their fault

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@pes10k

7 months

Would anyone be interested in organizing a petition campaign around getting new management at the @cta ? Classic “clip boards at L transfer stations” kind of thing, aiming to rack up 100, 500 CTA riders demanding change?

Star:Line Chicago

@StarLineChicago

7 months

**Zero** inbound Orange Line trains right now

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@pes10k

8 months

it’s a tossup whether Vallas would have been better than Johnson at this point. Vallas is clearly a worse person, but things could hardly be worse than hundreds of people sleeping in the cold while an expensive tent is built on polluted land after months of squandered time.

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@pes10k

3 months

@cornoisseur Next speaker: quotes Joni Mitchell, “you don’t know what you got till it’s gone” That song literally says we shouldn’t favor parking lots. Gang… it’s in the lyrics of the song. It’s not a “save the parking lots” song

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@pes10k

8 months

HUD said it: "many majority-white wards use the local veto to block, deter or downsize [affordable housing proposals" Shameful our progressive alders continue this; disappointing that its coming from @40thforward , who is excellent on many other issues

Chicago wrongly limited affordable housing with aldermanic prerogative, HUD says

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration is being asked to enter talks for an “informal resolution” of an almost five-year civil rights investigation by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban...

chicago.suntimes.com

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@pes10k

8 months

@40thforward @UrbanEnviroIL More, what we need is city-wide housing+parking reform, so every small step of improving housing doesn't require its own massive mobilization Folks with 500k+ homes will always have more resources than those struggling to find a home in the first place. We need city wide reform

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3 months

Developer is reminding folks this would replace a parking lot, revamp the Walgreens, and other nice things. But, stuff we’ve heard 6 times now

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@pes10k

10 months

@chicagobars This road (finally) being made safer doesn’t make Halstead any less deadly.

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@pes10k

1 year

On the one hand, it’s kinda a bummer that chicago seems to only be able to significantly build in one part of the city On the other hand, there is something hopeful that chicago builds more housing in w loop in a month than all SF (where I lived before) builds in a year

Block Club Chicago

@BlockClubCHI

1 year

Developers plan to build a $300 million luxury Fulton Market skyscraper that would be taller than any building west of the Kennedy.

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@pes10k

1 year

@Leftygayboi2 Absolute sociopath

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@pes10k

1 year

Unhinged responses here. Even if you think we need semi's on _some_ streets in the city, why in the world would you think we need to accommodate semi's on _every_ street in the city True chud town in the comments

foxyjewishmama

@foxyjewishmama

1 year

Semi-trucks have no business being on city streets. In IL, we’re required to accommodate 65-foot trucks. Help make intersections safer for people across Illinois by sending a quick email to your state senator before tomorrow's vote on SB2278:

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@pes10k

3 months

@stevevance Best was “I was a designer and the plumbing won’t work in this building”

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@pes10k

5 months

After 8 years of explaining that I ride fixie bc i like being able to fix everything on my bike myself, i just paid $400 to replace everything I've eff'ed up by repairing my own bike

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@pes10k

10 months

Just remembered my favorite (or maybe second favorite) part of the @bikegridnow jam last night: Corking Lake with @Nova__999999 and a woman walking across the intersection recognizing him from Twitter 😅

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@pes10k

3 months

This is terrific, and would be a great model for other alders to follow! 🙏

Ald. Andre Vasquez, Political Account

@Andrefor40th

3 months

Join us May 29th for an exciting development & exhibit - the 40th Ward will be rezoning Western Avenue across the ward to increase residential affordability and reimagine the business district! It will be the first time it’s ever been done in Chicago so come learn more!

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@pes10k

6 months

@ILSheriffsAssoc hoping this isn’t common, accepted practice for your office. Please, please don’t park in the bike lane (especially not two bike lanes at the same time!)

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@pes10k

1 year

Be there or be (logan) square

Chicago, Bike Grid Now!

@bikegridnow

1 year

Robust community inputters! We are tired of the City drawing up plans that don't do enough to protect vulnerable road users. Even worse? When they consider it and toss out protected lanes because...parking? It's challenging? Unacceptable! It's time to jam it up. 1/

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11 months

@TranSystems This project has made Chicago worse for pedestrians and wasted a huge amount of money. Its beyond grim that people are receiving rewards for this debacle

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@pes10k

2 years

This city owes so much to the folks who’ve been foundational to @bikegridnow , and the political work they’ve done trying to save the city from its own terrible choices

Chicago, Bike Grid Now!

@bikegridnow

2 years

BREAKING NEWS! "The road was theirs, and they savored it." We're building political power through direct action and we're not stopping till we get a #bikegridnow . Read all about us in this @chicagotribune article, written by @JakeSheridan_ :

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@pes10k

6 months

How can you drive off the road, across a bike lake and multiple pedestrian areas, without facing any repercussion? anyone have a measure of direct costs *to the city* of auto accidents? Not “wholistic” measures, just direct costs to the city (road repair, overtime, towing, etc)

Hyde Park Herald

@HydeParkHerald

6 months

An accident early Monday morning caused a car to veer off DuSable Lake Shore Drive and into the lake.

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@pes10k

2 months

I’m sitting on a bench in a park in Hyde Park, and there is a dude with his grandkid in a stroller going around and asking “have you heard the good news? Guilty, all 34!” and high fiving people This is peek Hyde Park boomer liberal (non-derogatory)

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8 months

We should end the outdated and regressive practice of requiring the construction of parking spaces in Chicago! It'd be better for the environment, safer for everyone on the streets, and better for reducing costs to home builders and new businesses!

Ask city council to remove parking mandates!

Parking mandates – policies that require businesses and housing developments to build parking spaces regardless of parking demand – are a costly and environmentally harmful policy that many cities...

actionnetwork.org

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@pes10k

8 months

As someone who grew up riding metra regularly, I cannot express how shocking it is that Metra is doing really encouraging things, and the CTA is the one that seems beyond hope for the next couple of years

Star:Line Chicago

@StarLineChicago

8 months

A rapid deployment to make it easier for more cyclists to use Metra. This is a great project, kudos to the @Metra folks who are making this happen

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@pes10k

3 months

Developer shows slides showing that this will replace a shabby looking Walgreens, 2 gas stations, and a surface lot. Developer mentions that we have record high rent in chciago now

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@pes10k

7 months

100% this. @40thforward is getting dragged (and fair). Sametime, Vasquez is great on most things; Im glad hes an Alder Terrible housing outcomes like this are a structural problem and happen every ward. We urgently need citywide housing/zoning reform Join us in @UrbanEnviroIL !

Urban Environmentalists IL

@UrbanEnviroIL

7 months

Upset about this decision? If so, join us to help advocate for progressive land use reforms such as allowing ADUs + three-flats citywide, eliminating parking minimums, and establishing by-right development approvals that meet objective criteria. The housing crisis demands it.

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2 months

I’m watching a friend’s son next week. He usually is driven to school, but we’re going to bike. He’s psyched! But the amount of planning and practicing needed to minimize the risk of something terrible happening make is really driving home how lacking Chi 🚴infrastructure is

Chicagoans Who Bike

@chiwhobike

2 months

“He passed me very closely, and then at the next stoplight, rolled down his window, called me all kinds of derogatory names, cussing in front of my child and then tried to drive his car into us.”

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@pes10k

2 months

It’s obviously unacceptable if people have been harassing Carter, racially or otherwise But what is this upside down world where, when it comes to plummeting CTA performance, the person the Alders are most concerned about is the also the highest paid person in city government?!?

Michael McDevitt

@MikeMcDTweets

2 months

. @LamontJRobinson apologizes to Carter on behalf of his council colleagues, who denied Carter's assertion that some criticisms have been partially motivated/worse due to his race. Robinson says his colleagues shouldn't have invalidated his feelings and that it was disrespectful.

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11 months

@bikegridnow ride this morning was wonderful. And even though there’s like 2 dozen events happening today, turn out was tremendous. Was really happy to ride with everyone. Let’s keep pushing and see y’all at the next one

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@pes10k

3 months

This meeting was a real drain, way more than most. the number of people who are just loudly, obviously, proudly fighting against housing w/ zoning, and then trying to pretend they’re pro housing with some “responsible development” throat cleaning, just really bummed me out

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@pes10k

3 months

I’m at the Old Town neighborhood meeting discussing 500 new units, 100 of them affordable.

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2 months

I appreciate @kambucknerchi @40thforward and Senator Peters being here to talk improving transit on a rainy Saturday morning

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@pes10k

1 year

extremely extremely extremely proud to be able to share something i've been working on for a long time

Brave

@brave

1 year

Brave will begin rolling out an important new privacy feature called "Request Off the Record (OTR)" in version 1.53. OTR aims to help people who need to hide their browsing behavior from others who have access to their devices.

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8 months

on one hand I understand the situation; NIMBYs are extremely loud and selfish, and at some point you gotta vote count. But on the other hand, that same problem causes systemic housing problems. The solution is to end aldermanic prerogative. @40thforward , join us in this goal!

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