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Surface parking is incredibly unpopular "Of the 490 respondents who identified as 44th Ward residents, 438, or 89.5 percent, said they opposed the proposal. Twenty-nine respondents, or 6 percent, supported it, while the rest were neutral or unsure."

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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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Matt McCabe @mmccabe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How is this not an immediate call from the mayor to CPD brass? Or from alders at the press conference (linked in the thread below) to the mayor saying, call CPD leadership now?

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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not sure how many more lives DLSD has to take before we get serious about what we actually want on our lakefront, but apparently the answer is always “at least one more”

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Matt McCabe @mmccabe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Open road toll the Jane Byrne when?

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Matt McCabe @mmccabe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A worthwhile read! A shame current #edusky? #chied? doesn't have the breadth of engagement that 2010s twitter did but curious what other folks think here - of the underlying solutions presented, of the researchers' perspectives etc.

nytimes.com

30 Ideas for Fixing U.S. Schools, Ranked by Experts

Math and reading scores are in a decade-long slump. We asked three dozen experts: What could turn things around?

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Matt McCabe @mmccabe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Every day, every intersection.

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Matt McCabe @mmccabe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Which street will look like this in Chicago in 5 years?

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Matt McCabe @mmccabe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Feels like we're in this video - www.ted.com/talks/derek_... - and we're past the first few people joining in and dancing... and if we can build the infra safe enough, connected enough and quickly enough we'll hit a tipping point

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Matt McCabe @mmccabe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm ok with switchbacks (we're rolling with an urban arrow and I can manage the super tight east side of Milwaukee switchback exit off the 606), just hoping they're wide enough so that it doesn't have to fully clog the traffic in both directions to navigate it.

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Alderman La Spata @aldermanlaspata.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Divvy has become an essential part of how Chicagoans move through our city, and this contract extension is about making sure the system continues to work for more people in more neighborhoods.

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Matt McCabe @mmccabe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Induce the demand!! Also, anyone know if they updated designs to make sure the turns will be able to handle cargo bikes? do we need to up the advocacy on that or did they take the feedback after the first public meeting on it?

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 23/09/2026

The "bike bus" idea is simple: Once a week, a group of kids and parents bike to school together. It's an idea being embraced in neighborhoods around Chicago as a way to socialize and push back against car-centric culture, parents say.

chicago.suntimes.com

Instead of driving to school, more kids are taking the 'bike bus'

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Matt McCabe @mmccabe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You! You reading this right now! Start one! The world instantly gets a tiny bit better when you do, it's like magic.

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Matt McCabe @mmccabe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What labelers are people currently using on Bluesky that you're appreciating? And how are you finding them?

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Matt McCabe @mmccabe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not the point of the video but "Don't forget I have your binder" is one of the more relatable things I've seen recently 😂

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Matt McCabe @mmccabe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Things I'm also noticing: - the presence of pedestrians made the street safer for everyone, forcing the truck to at least slow down a little - parking protection ends well before intersection but no other hardened infra through the intersection (bump out etc.) means truck is able to cut it sharp

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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh yeah, that's the good stuff, well done Philly

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Matt McCabe @mmccabe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Chicago, where we at? Feels like we're in the upper right corner of the gray "dare" box? Maybe *just* into the able box?

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Nettelhorst Bike Bus @nettelhorstbikebus.org · 18/09/2026

✨HAPPY FRIDAY✨ We love when our two routes make it to school at the same time! A magical moment.✨🚲

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Matt McCabe @mmccabe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Those are awesome numbers!! We're very excited to have (at least?) two in Logan now with SJB and Darwin elementary. I can feel it in the air.... Brentano, Goethe, Chase, St. Sylvester..... all primed for more!! (manifesting)

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Leavitt-Palmer @leavitt-palmer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

That's because e-bikes don't obey any rules.

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Ryan McCray @ryanmccray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Traffic safety made the front page and top story!! We need to do so much to prevent the next tragedy, but I'm glad that 21 alders (so far) are supporting this letter with just a few of those next steps

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Chicagoans Who Bike @chiwho.bike · 17/09/2026

We've got some big updates to the ChiWhoBike ward map! (chiwho.bike/map) First, citywide stats. You can now view stats for the whole city, which we had calculated before, but there was no way to view it! You can also hover or click each lane type to view just bike routes of that type.

A map of Chicago showing all bike lanes, with 3.8% calm bike streets, and 399 miles of bike routes, and 453 miles including trails, excluding 47 miles of shared bike lanes (roads with sharrows)

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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Los Angeles County, you are like little baby

All 129 non-Chicago municipalities at least partially in Cook County, plus 25 unincorporated areas

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Michelle @michelle345.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Imagine how many residents and visitors would choose this efficient and climate-friendly mode of transport in Chicago if they actually had safe infrastructure to use!

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Matt McCabe @mmccabe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We've got people over parking... next up, a required "penalty for putting parking over people payment" with a multiplier within 0.25 mi of transit

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The alders' letter references a 2025 report produced by the Equity in Enforcement working group. There's one particular table from the report worth revisiting, reproduced here. The chart is my own approximation, but it shows that a small # of drivers are responsible for a large % of the violations.

Ticket data from the lifetime of the program (through 05/27/2025), provided by the DoF

ASE ticket count # of vehicles
1-2 3,928,788
3-5 1,167,737
6-10 454,244
11-15 121,330
16-30 78,320
31-50 13,991
51-100 3,690
101-200 370
201-300 31
301-400 5
401-500 3
500+ 25*
*This number represents companies or fleets, not individual motorists.

Chart showing the percent of ticketed vehicles vs. percent of tickets for Chicago ASE programs through 5/27/2025

The data is imprecise, due to the way it was shared with the public.

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Matt McCabe @mmccabe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh that's interesting too... does Lime (or others?) release trip data too? Could be cool to see a whole micromobility trends thing...

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Matt McCabe @mmccabe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What if this is possible in.... other places too?

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Matt McCabe @mmccabe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Striking to see the divergent unique trip ridership numbers, in wards that have added a lot and have a high density of stations ridership seems flat or up. Those with a stagnant/small number of stations seem to be down (stands to reason).

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Alderman Bill Conway @aldconway.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Since the Smart Streets Pilot Program launched, we’ve been able to improve traffic safety throughout the 34th Ward. It’s common sense to expand this successful program citywide. blockclubchicago.org/2026/09/15/a...

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Matt McCabe @mmccabe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Literally millions of rides every month on Divvy alone, Chicago has a duty to keep its residents safe.

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Matt McCabe @mmccabe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

it's really depressing, honestly, and there is the much harder to measure opportunity cost of builders who might consider building a *lot* more housing on larger pieces of transit-served land (big vacant lots at Kimball and North for example) - but now think "why would they bother?"

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Matt McCabe @mmccabe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We just hit 3 years with our cargo bike, we've put 8,260 miles on it as of today. Worth its weight in gold.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

People are shocked when they found out we spent $5k on an cargo e-bike. But we didn't buy it just for fun! (though it is fun) It was so we could avoid paying 2-3x that *per year* on a 2nd car!

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👻 David Weiskopf believes in spooks 👻 @dave.bzky.team · 14/09/2026

A statistic that haunts me because it is 100% true and shocking and useless in advocacy precisely because it is true and shocking: Policy that enables a 1-car lifestyle rather than 2 is equivalent to giving a family a $25,000 annual pay raise.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

if you ever wonder how Americans became the richest major country on the planet but most of us still feel so poor, looking at what we spend on cars — not just directly but in tax money for infrastructure and space in the built environment — is the answer.

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Active Transportation Alliance @activetransportation.org · 15/09/2026

"While Chicago has made progress reducing the number of fatal crashes on our roadways, the harsh reality is that they remain stubbornly high because of a lack of committed action."

chicagotribune.com

Aldermen: Riley O’Neil died a preventable death. We can’t cut funding for safe streets.

The number of fatal crashes on Chicago roadways remain stubbornly high because of a lack of committed action.

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Municipal Corporation @nikhunder.com · 12/09/2026

This is a very helpful tool for evaluating how much (or often how little) your alder did for bikes in the past four years. A long way to go until the bike grid is complete.

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Matt McCabe @mmccabe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

0% existing calm bike infrastructure in Ald. Tabares' 23rd ward. How has this term gone? 6,866 crashes 14 fatalities. More than 1000 INJURIES. 1900 hit and runs. Total new bike lane investment? 0 miles.

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Matt McCabe @mmccabe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Well, are their wards unusually safe for some reason you might ask? They are not! Here's Ald Sposato's 38th ward c/o www.strongtownschicago.org/chicago-cras... - 5781 crashes this term. 11 fatalities. 882 injuries.

Chicago crash dashboard for thr 38th ward - https://www.strongtownschicago.org/chicago-crash-dashboard

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Matt McCabe @mmccabe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

11 (!) Alders, have built less than 1 mile of new infra during this term. Well, is that because their wards are already full of safe streets infrastructure? No it is not, 8 of the 11 have less than 1% safe streets infra.

screenshot of the dashboard showing 11 alders with incredibly low investment in safe streets infrastructure in the last 3 years.

Ward 4
Lamont J. Robinson 4.2 sq mi 17.6 mi 0.9 mi 3.3%
Ward 6
William E. Hall 5.0 sq mi 13.3 mi 0.8 mi 0.8%
Ward 31
Felix Cardona Jr. 2.7 sq mi 8.7 mi 0.7 mi 5.8%
Ward 45
James M. Gardiner 5.0 sq mi 12.4 mi 0.2 mi 0.5%
Ward 14
Jeylu B. Gutierrez 4.3 sq mi 2.0 mi 0.1 mi 0%
Ward 13
Marty Quinn 5.3 sq mi 1.8 mi 0 mi 0%
Ward 41
Anthony V. Napolitano 17.0 sq mi 2.1 mi 0 mi 0%
Ward 18
Derrick G. Curtis 6.9 sq mi 4.3 mi 0 mi 0%
Ward 23
Silvana Tabares 4.2 sq mi 0.8 mi 0 mi 0%
Ward 44
Bennett R. Lawson 1.7 sq mi 9.4 mi 0 mi 7.5%
Ward 38
Nicholas Sposato 6.4 sq mi 1.4 mi 0 mi 0%

% calm bike streets is a ward's protected bike lanes and neighborhood greenways as a share of its street mileage: how much of it you can bike without riding next to moving traffic.

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