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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 26/09/2026

Thanks for flagging that. Had to cancel because of this mistake. Was meant to be today and I mixed it up on my calendar and was out of town today. Sorry

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CTA Train Insights @ctatraininsights.chicagotransitalerts.app · 28/07/2026

🚆 CTA L · 15-min timelapse 12:00 PM–12:15 PM CT · 80 trains Red 25 · Blue 26 · Brown 9 · Green 15 · Orange 10 · Purple 4 · Pink 8 · Yellow 3

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Joel @jtmac1709930.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

20 bikers showed up in 30-degree weather to volunteer at LaBagh Woods this morning. Always great to have @oofd.org partner with us for a workday!

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Mr. Boo-talism @jmings.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Chicago is cool because you'll randomly run into @mattweiss.me in the Loop

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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 07/10/2025

when your draft version of the street sign accidentally gets published

screenshot from Google Maps in Greencastle, Indiana at DePauw Nature Park. Road is named "Gravel Pit?" with the notable presence of a question mark.

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Ian @ianofmanycolours.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

went on a @mattweiss.me -led tour of edgebrook yesterday, such an interesting neighborhood, old edgebrook is really weird!

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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 26/09/2025

Metra I love you but we have got to patch the two random 2 hour gaps in service on the UP-NW line. Missing a 9:35am OB and a 12:35pm OB. This is the crowding on the 1:35pm #629 from OTC. Truly SRO even with the refurb seats where people are more inclined to double up.

Screenshot of Metra UPNW weekday outbound schedule https://schedules.metrarail.com/pdf/UP-NW.pdf

Bikes and scooters stacked up before departure from OTC

SRO starting from Clybourn. With two bikes in the aisle too.

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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 25/09/2025

This is highly unscientific, but it's fascinating to come across a highway project in the burbs like this with a dollar amount that so closely parallels what Transit is asking for in Chicagoland. $800 million for 300,000 vehicles per day, or $771 million for 1 million NE IL transit riders per day?

screenshot of a facebook post from "The Walsh Group" who is a contractor for the I-290/I-88/I-294 interchange project under the purview of the Illinois Tollway, which is quoted in the post as an $800 million project. And how 300,000 vehicles a day move through this corridor.

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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 18/09/2025

housing friends, are there any grants out there to help pay for home foundation repairs? The person is trying to update the home and sell it under market rate to help address the housing affordability crisis. This is in Whiteside County, IL @abundanthousingil.bsky.social

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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 18/09/2025

this is hardly the most pressing matter facing Chicago, but it would be so cool if we had a top level domain ".chi" for the city

screenshot from wiki article showing the other top level domains in use by places in north america, which includes DOT-boston, DOT-miami, DOT-nyc, DOT-quebec, and DOT-vegas.

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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 31/07/2025

I got one of the oru folding ones. You’re more than welcome to try it out!

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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 23/07/2025

Happy 100th birthday to Chicago’s Union Station! 🥳 Even @govpritzker.illinois.gov made an appearance

Poster at Union station “celebratijg 100 years at Union station”

Governor J.B. Pritzker at a press conference at Union station

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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 20/07/2025

Fill this out on their behalf: www.chicago.gov/city/en/site...

Screenshot from linked website detailing “bike parking relocation requests”

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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 04/07/2025

real. i travel a lot and my mom's like "are you worried you aren't going to live long?" like no, I'm worried I am not going to live long relative to all the random shit I want to do

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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 24/06/2025

good morning from Portage Park, Chicago

Portage grounds coffee shop in portage park, Chicago which is a midcentury modern brick building, with an outdoor patio and a wooden fence with pink flowers and green plants

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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 23/06/2025

good morning from Belleau Lake Forest Preserve in Des Plaines, Illinois 😌

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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 21/06/2025

What’s the ride about 👀 nothing on the 23th yet for me

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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 21/06/2025

It’s possible in North Lawndale.

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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 21/06/2025

Yesterday’s first annual Juneteenth parade in North Lawndale was magic on so many levels.

Participants walking in the parade with the Dr King Legacy Apartments in the background

Parade goers watching from the sidewalk in folding chairs with the mural in the background that says “god bless the westside”

Selfie with volunteers from Equiticity marshaling the parade on bikes

A large garnering of people post parade rallying at the site of a future affordable housing project

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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 15/06/2025

I’m channeling the energy of that dachshund 😌

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brandon mcfadden 🛤️ @brandonmcfadden.com · 14/06/2025

indy pride month bike party was awesome

A photo of 5 people sitting on the grass in front of a tree with bikes leaning against the tree. From left to right are Brandon, Matt Weiss, Riley Choe, @rustbeltenjoyer and Will Hazen

A photo of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument in Indianapolis. Numerous cyclists and pedestrians are seen navigating the traffic circle around the monument.

A photo of approximately 75 cyclists cycling down a street with the #15/High School Rd bus driving in the opposing direction.

A photo of a Dachshund riding in a crate on the back of a bicycle. The bicycle rider is wearing a galaxy themed gown and a large rainbow pride flag hung from a flag pole off the back of the bike.

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Jerome Alexander Horne @jahorne.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Chicago I've missed you! So happy to reconnect with some wonderful friends.

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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Going straight into the belly of the Shermerville beast on Saturday

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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 03/06/2025

Rode the big bridge in MKE yesterday. Tell Wisconsin DOT to turn the highway ramps into a boulevard: www.794lakeinterchange.wisconsindot.gov

The Hoan Bridge in Milwaukee, WI during a day when it is closed to motor traffic and open to cyclists. The bridge is very tall and has yellow arches

A selfie with the OP and the OP's partner with the bridge in the background and many cyclists riding on the road in the background

a rest stop on the bike ride with many types of bikes visible including a trailer, tandem, and recumbent. A tudor style park fieldhouse is in the background

People riding on the Milwaukee lakeshore path with the downtown skyline in the background. The people are riding cargo bikes, one bike has two kids in tow and the other cargo bike has two kids bikes attached in the cargo section

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Rachel Cole @rmartincole.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

All reports in this thread are from the collections of Northwestern University's Transportation Library. Materials we've digitized can generally be found in HathiTrust. Learn more and search our catalog here: www.library.northwestern.edu/libraries-co...

Text "United States Department of Agriculture. Transporting Watermelons in Bulk and Bin by Truck." Illustration of a semi truck with a watermelon as its trailer.

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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 11/05/2025

such an honor when to have a mural painted in your likeness 🥰

Mural of a raccoon holding an apple core

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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 10/05/2025

Apple Maps spotted in Pullman, Chicago; confused on the shoulder of the Bishop Ford expressway 👀

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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 02/05/2025

Come ride with us this evening!

Flyer for south side critical mass. Meets Friday May 2 at 5:45pm rolls at 6:15pm. From Nichols park in Hyde park, Chicago. 5500 s Kimbark Ave

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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 01/05/2025

is this what happens when you really shove your divvy into the dock without thanking it for its service?

A divvy bike share rack smashed in many pieces with bikes lying on the ground, likely because a car crashed into it

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 02/04/2025

lifehack: rather than paying the AirTrain fare for JFK you can take the A train to Lefferts Blvd, buy 2 roti for the same price, and then take the Q10 to JFK for free

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Pedaling Professor @pedalingprof.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Pileated woodpecker, welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social

A screenshot of a ln NBC news story about a pileated woodpecker that is pecking at cars clogging up its home

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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 20/04/2025

I’ll wrap up this thread with a picture of Habitat 67, which I’ve adored for quite some time. When I visited in 2017, I was very fortunate to run into a resident who was excited to show me around their unit.

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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 20/04/2025

Their list also introduced me to this wonderful church in Liverpool, England. 10/10 no notes.

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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 20/04/2025

..Alexandra Road Estate in London which I recall learning about in Architecture History class in college, especially relation to urban renewal efforts to support urban density.

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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 20/04/2025

The next location on their list is the Barbican Centre in London. I’m a bit surprised to see that ahead of another London example..

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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 20/04/2025

Although I haven’t been to the Marseille building, I have been to the Berlin outpost of the Unité movement.

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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 20/04/2025

Probably the brutalist building of all brutalist buildings, “Unité d’Habitation in Marseilles, France, it means “housing unit” and reflects a lot of the social and political elements of the style.

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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 20/04/2025

Oakland Museum of Art is included on their short list, which I’ve never heard of until reading the article.

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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 20/04/2025

University of Illinois at Chicago’s “circle campus” on their list as well, and for good reason. For living in Chicago for so long, I’m surprised I don’t have a better photo of the Walter Netsch designed campus.

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Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 20/04/2025

..Salk Institute is not even one mile away from the Geisel library and by many estimations an even more iconic example of the movement.

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