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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 20h

This sort of stuff makes me want to scream. The cost bloat is in *capital projects* not in operations! Capital projects are bloated because of a complex web of balkanized permitting processes, the byzantine and inconsistent nature of federal grant funding, and outsourcing talent to consultants.

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nathansheskey.bsky.social @nathansheskey.bsky.social · 14h

Our city is once again facing a contentious budget season, but it doesn't have to be this way. Our government could legalize more homes, bringing the cost of living down for everyone while growing the total tax base. citythatworks.substack.com/p/budget-tal...

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Budget Talks are Missing One Key Option

Importantly, an option completely in City Council’s control

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 14h

We pay out the nose for CPD to do security on the trains, they don't bother because TikTok is really compelling, but rest assured when someone is killed they'll send 50 officers out and start lobbying for even more TikTok time funding www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

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Chicago Transit Authority worker killed in stabbing at Damen/Lake station

A Chicago Transit Authority worker was killed in a stabbing attack on Thursday afternoon at a Green Line station in West Town.

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 20h

If your girls are always late, arrive in a pack of 3 or more, and then take you to the bar, that's not your polycule, that's the 22 Clark

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 22h

Begging CTA operations to prevent shit like this from happening this is so fucking useless

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 22h

Nothing to be done, im sure. Just 45 minutes worth of bus service all rolling around together.

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urbanist lincoln park trixie @urbanistbarbie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Let's build a stronger future for Chicago's working class" "Somewhere else!"

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Went to History of Concrete on a whim with my girlfriend and why did nobody warn me this was a housing movie now I look like some kinda dweeb who takes her girlfriend to a housing movie

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Had to park my bike at music box. Insane that you can fit like 16 bikes in the space of one car but I still have to go a good ways away and lock it to some random pole because there's 30 bikes all piled up around like 2 cars

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ok so I had been seeing those wolf larsen stickers all over town and finally went to the website today and. Hoo boy. What the fuck.

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Streetsblog Chicago @chi.streetsblog.org · 06/10/2026

We have acquired the crash report for the Deshawn Lee e-moto case and updated our post. The sketch of the collision and narrative don't indicate Lee was doing anything unsafe, but was killed simply because of a driver "disobeying a solid red signal." chi.streetsblog.org/2026/10/05/m...

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Corey @coreyjrowe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Car salesman “slaps roof of car” meme but instead of a car it’s the pedway wayfinding compass with caption “this baby can fit so much Dunkin’ in it”

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I love the theory that punishing apartments because home owners are more likely to vote and this is some inherent democratic good ignores that a lot of homeowners can't see beyond their noses, politically speaking

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Streetsblog Chicago @chi.streetsblog.org · 07/10/2026

Here's Ald. Lopez's latest tirade blaming the Archer traffic safety project for congestion, reduced sales. In reality, major factors are a massive utility project, and ICE crackdowns, for which Lopez attended a closed-door planning meeting with the Border Czar, organized by a Proud Boys associate.

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Sierra Club Chicago @sierraclubchicago.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sierra Club is proud to support Shape Oak Park, a bold new plan to end single-family-only zoning and add environmentally-friendly, gentle housing density near transit Here are five reasons why:

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Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

CTA hiring a VP of technology chicagotransit.taleo.net/careersectio...

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Vice President, Technology

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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Monica de la Cruz @monicadlc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Man gets on the bus rambling to no one and it just sounds like he's talking nonsense until he says, "it's 100 degrees and last night the president told Iran they could blow up San Diego!" The bus driver goes "hey now, he didn't say that" until the passenger pulled up the video clip

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mel in ballhalla 🏳️‍⚧️🔰♨️ @astruckpersonn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

STOP DOING MIXED-TRAFFIC LIGHT RAIL!!!!! “yes i would parking violators blocking my transit system” “yes i want my transit slowed down by drivers” “yes i want bus bunching on high capacity transit” —statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh my god I had not seen a map of the marathon before. So we're just torching every bus route in the city huh?

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

People won't voluntarily give up their Kid-Crusher 5000s unless we make driving them considerably more costly and inconvenient, which is precisely what we should do.

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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The whole time you own the property you wanna build on, you're paying taxes on that property, you have loans accruing interest, you have to pay staff whose entire job is to jump through bureaucratic hoops, AND WE WONDER WHY HOUSING IS SO EXPENSIVE. BUILD THE FUCKING HOUSING!

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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Democracy is when you structure the vote to depress turnout, still lose the vote, and then simply dismiss the result of the vote anyway

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jad, unusually spooky 📸👻 @aerojad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I love when the city’s safe, car-free areas are respected by the city 🥰

A big ol’ CPD SUV drives down the lakefront trail, not responding to an emergency of any sort. Just patrolling. The department does also have several dozen bikes that could patrol a bike path but that’s not how you back the blue

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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

📢 Public Hearing: Proposed Weber Spur Trail 🚲🚶 The Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) and Alderman Nugent invite residents to a Public Hearing about the proposed Weber Spur Trail. 📅 Wednesday, October 14, 2026 🕕 6:00–8:00 PM 📍 NEIU Student Union Building www.chicago.gov/weber-spur-t...

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are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You have to hand it to whatever the hell FactPost is for creating the most effective propaganda campaign in decades just by color matching RFK press photos to routine food recalls for months

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Viktor Köves @viktorkoves.com · 06/10/2026

Some good urbanism news, and I love that survey responses mention not only traffic and safety, but also the opportunity for housing! “I’m having a hard time understanding the need... Expanding a parking lot is a terrible use of land, especially during the housing shortage we’re in.”

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Cubs' Wrigleyville Parking Lot Expansion Rejected By Ald. Lawson

A survey of Lakeview neighbors found overwhelming opposition to adding nearly 260 parking spaces near Wrigley Field.

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What Wrigleyville needs is bus lanes. Game days shouldn't fuck over every single bus nearby, then folks could actually arrive in space efficient ways that don't ruin every bus nearby for every rider along the route. Folks at Ashland & 28th shouldn't have their bus gutted by a Cubs game.

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Our built infrastructure robs kids of their freedom of independent mobility. Streets are dominated by oversized vehicles, piloted by aggressive and distracted drivers where one mistake can turn lethal. We sacrificed child development to subsidize the auto industry.

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Well, at least it's rush hour so this kinda makes...oh wait, 2PM lol

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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 05/10/2026

For-Sale housing inventory in Illinois is insanely low. Left: Active listings by month (Illinois) Right: Active listings by month (US National Aggregate) We need to pass the BUILD Plan to help solve this. www.datawrapper.de/_/SBHS2/?v=6

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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

THE SECRET IS THAT THE PEOPLE ABSOLUTELY FUCKING CRAVE CAR-FREE SPACES TO SPEND EVEN AN HOUR OF THEIR OTHERWISE COMPLETELY CAR-DOMINATED LIVES

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amb @amb.fyi · 04/10/2026

Build the housing, run the buses, metaphorically and literally make room to welcome red state refugees into big blue cities

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's just so constantly normal for this shit to happen. At the workshop I went to last week we talked about how high frequency enables access to opportunity, especially by facilitating transfers But what if the frequency isn't actually real?

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 04/10/2026

I'm not sure if she's aware of it but this 2022 @rebeccajtiffany.bsky.social tweet is basically an article of faith at @liberalcurrents.com ( @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com quoted it in www.liberalcurrents.com/feminism-wit... and I've referenced it countless times ever since)

My YIMBY take: Every trans 18 year old who is stuck living w unsupportive family should be able to afford an apartment in a vibrant urban space w transit on a min wage job. (+raise the min wage). Build so much housing that that is the norm. Same for others stuck in bad situations

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Kara Transit Authority @stormykara.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I just assumed they closed it off because they didnt want strangers/people walking through during school hours but WHAT DO YOU MEAN SOMEONE DROVE ONTO THE PLAYGROUND

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We need to handle reroutes better. As is a reroute that adds enough % to a trip just breaks the entire route. I saw 4 49bs stacked up at the Damen brown line (rerouted end point) when I was there earlier.

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If any enterprising transit activists want to do an "outwalk the bus" activity and create short form video content about it 👀

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 04/10/2026

took a crack at figuring out bus speed on Michigan Ave Mansueto data as before. 30 days (6/28 to 7/28). Plotting minutes per mile—higher is slower/more time can definitely make the case for extension to Mag Mile. but NB between Ida B Wells & Wacker is BAD when it's bad

Speed (or its inverse, minutes per mile) plotted for Michigan Ave bus stops, for both northbound (left panel) and southbound (right panel), for Mon-Thu between 3-6 pm. Plot goes from Roosevelt to Chicago Ave.

Northbound:
Median speed is ~12 mph at Roosevelt, and decreases to ~6 mph between Ida B. Wells and Madison, and stays there until Chicago. 95th percentile in min/mi (5th percentile in speed) is ~10 at Roosevelt and rises to ~28 just south of Madison, and stays above 20 for most of the way until Chicago.

Southbound:
Median speed is ~5 mph at Chicago, and steadily increases to ~12 mph at Roosevelt. 95th percentile in min/mi (5th percentile in speed) is ~21 at Chicago, peaks at ~32 between Madison and Wacker, and decreases to ~12 at Roosevelt.

Speed (or its inverse, minutes per mile) plotted for Michigan Ave bus stops, for both northbound (left panel) and southbound (right panel), for Fri between 3-6 pm. Plot goes from Roosevelt to Chicago Ave.

Northbound:
Median speed is ~10 mph at Roosevelt, and decreases to ~5 mph between Ida B. Wells and Madison, and stays there until Chicago. 95th percentile in min/mi (5th percentile in speed) is ~12 at Roosevelt and rises to ~30 just south of Madison, and stays ~19 for most of the way until Chicago.

Southbound:
Median speed is ~5 mph at Chicago, and steadily increases to ~10 mph at Roosevelt. 95th percentile in min/mi (5th percentile in speed) is ~25 at Chicago, peaks at ~31 between Madison and Wacker, and decreases to ~12 at Roosevelt.

Speed (or its inverse, minutes per mile) plotted for Michigan Ave bus stops, for both northbound (left panel) and southbound (right panel), for Sat-Sun between 3-6 pm. Plot goes from Roosevelt to Chicago Ave.

Northbound:
Median speed is ~10 mph at Roosevelt, and decreases to ~5 mph around Madison, and goes back up to ~6 mph before Wacker and mostly stays there until Chicago. 95th percentile in min/mi (5th percentile in speed) is ~15 at Roosevelt and rises to ~39 just south of Madison, and stays between 15-20 from Wacker to Chicago.

Southbound:
Median speed is ~5 mph at Chicago, and steadily increases to ~10 mph at Roosevelt. 95th percentile in min/mi (5th percentile in speed) is ~21 at Chicago, there are no large peaks, and steadily decreases to ~10 at Roosevelt.

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wow, riders really seem to hate CTAs new "Intermittent Very Frequent Route Network" for some reason

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My girlfriend just reported 6 151s within 5 minutes near her lol

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Chicago's Jewelers Row. 8:30 AM on a sunny Saturday. People gather underneath the soft rumble of the elevated trains, attracted by a prosperous coffeehouse. We don't always need to fear elevated transit.

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think we drastically underestimate the value of giving people socially beneficial assets for free - e-bikes - batteries - heat pumps - reloadable transit cards with teaser values

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's incredible how useless CPD seems to be despite CTA paying them money to do literally anything at all please please please "Regular anti smoking missions" led to *drumroll please* 100 smoking citations

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