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Alex
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They’re passing a new law. Its called Ride Your Bike. Chicago
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Alex @acannon.bsky.social · Apr 28
Lincoln Square Road Closure and Accompanying Comments From The Local Facebook Page (April 2025)
Picture of kids and adults gathering on Lincoln Square, playing jump rope. Text overlay saying "I will never understand the appeal of playing in a street" Picture of Chicagoans of all ages lounging on Lincoln square, enjoying a beautiful spring day. The sun is out and there is chalk art covering the ground. In the foreground a man in sunglasses sits on a yellow bench. Text from a local facebook group reads "It's really unfortunate that they feel the need to create this kind of chaos for the community, our square, and the small businesses trying to thrive here, this feels like a targeted effort." a man blows bubbles for a group of children playing in Lincoln Square, the kids are jumping and pointing at the bubbles. many adults are circled around watching. A quote from the Lincoln Square facebook page reads "FORGET ABOUT IT. Ban kids from playing in the street." A wide shot of Lincoln Square. People are congregating in the road, lined up to patronize local businesses, or sitting on the curb watching neighbors stroll by. A truncated facebook comment states "how dare you... People like you in this community absolutely disgust me."
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Alex @acannon.bsky.social · 12m
How visible are these at night? do they get backlit?
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Alex @acannon.bsky.social · 1h
"The budget would also generate an additional $47.3 million by expanding a program to use cameras mounted on city vehicles and CTA buses to fine owners of cars parked in bicycle and bus lanes, according to the proposal."
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1h
BREAKING: Mayor Brandon Johnson called Thursday for more than $617 million in new taxes on the wealthiest Chicagoans and largest firms in order to blunt cuts imposed by the Trump administration while avoiding drastic cuts in city services and thousands of layoffs. @wttw.bsky.social
Mayor Brandon Johnson Calls for $617M in New Taxes to Close Budget Gap, Avoid Layoffs
“The line to draw here is that we either are going to protect working people in Chicago from Trump’s cuts, or we are going to open up the floodgates and allow these individuals to be hurt and harmed f...
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Alex @acannon.bsky.social · 4h
CTA is still full steam ahead on staffing, adding 15 rail operators and 38 bus drivers in September.
CTA Rail Operators - 895 as of Sept. 2025 CTA Bus Operators - 4,220 as of Sept 2025.
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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 1d
Up on Nebula now: I went to Chicago to ground-truth the “crime-ravaged third world hell hole” allegations. You will NEVER GUESS what I found

nebula.tv/videos/cityn...
CityNerd — Shockingly, They've Been Lying to Me About Chicago
I went to Chicago to see if it's really the crime-ridden, third world hell hole I've been told. You will NEVER BELIEVE what I actually saw.
nebula.tv
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Alex @acannon.bsky.social · 1d
an advertisement for bus lane enforcement cameras in new york city
Alt: an advertisement for bus lane enforcement cameras in new york city
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Alex @acannon.bsky.social · 1d
CTA taking their next big step in the smart streets pilot. Up until now, fines had mainly been coming from just 4 cameras that I believe are tied to Dept of Finance vehicles.
Chicago smart streets pilot fines by Camera ID
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Alex @acannon.bsky.social · 1d
Dowell & Beale
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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 3d
Finally got something out of my head that's been there a while: A capsule history of the mid-density Chicago apartment building daniel-kay-hertz.ghost.io/the-life-dea...
The life, death, and rebirth of moderate-density apartment buildings in Chicago
The pantheon of Chicago architecture tends to cluster at either end of the density spectrum. In one corner you have the trophy commercial skyscrapers; in the other you have icons of domesticity, the b...
daniel-kay-hertz.ghost.io
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Alex @acannon.bsky.social · 5d
I agree it can probably work fine in places with smaller vehicles, better visibility, lower default speeds, and better social norms!
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Alex @acannon.bsky.social · 5d
If someone doesn’t slow at all on approach and has to hard stop to avoid a collision, would you count it as a yield?
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Alex @acannon.bsky.social · 5d
I’ve spent some time in residential areas with a yield sign only setup and the result was mostly cars never yielding and only slowing for other cars in the intersection at the last possible second
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Alex @acannon.bsky.social · 6d
California near major transit stops:
Living in the future
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Alex @acannon.bsky.social · 11d
CTA selling the lot then?
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beautiful women updates @aoife.bsky.social · 12d
"One doesn't ask of one who suffers: what is your country and what is your religion? One merely says, you suffer, this is enough for me, you belong to me and I shall help you."
-Louis Pasteur

'Servant of Humanity'
Erected by the people of Chicago, 1928
a statue ft a bust of pasteur on top of on obelisk the quoted plaque
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Alex @acannon.bsky.social · 12d
2026 Illinois Attorney General election is in 13 months. There are currently no declared challengers to Raoul in the dem primary.
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 12d
Raoul:
“If you are exercising your 1st Amendment rights ... you have a responsibility to do so peacefully and lawfully. Lawful, peaceful protest does not involve the destruction of property, nor does it involve obstructing federal, state or local law enforcement, or impeding traffic. (2/2)
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Alex @acannon.bsky.social · 13d
Wells to Ping Tom through the 78 is a (semi) accessible bike route right now. Worried the plaque is going to be multiple mayors old by the time the road actually opens.
Wells st through the 78 Wells-Wentworth connector plaque Ping tom park connection with a broken fence Wells-wentworth blocked off.
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Alex @acannon.bsky.social · 14d
Quick look at the Uptown-Edgewater July Red Line station ridership. Lawrence and Berwyn returned to service on 07/20 while Argyle and Bryn Mawr moved into their new stations.
Stacked Bar Graph of July Red Line ridership from Wilson to Granville Line Graph of July Red Line ridership from Wilson to Granville
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Alex @acannon.bsky.social · 20d
Weren’t the old parking mandates a big inhibitor on coach houses before? Feels like that hurdle got fixed and immediately replaced with a new one for of much of the city.
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Alex @acannon.bsky.social · 21d
Safety yellow
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Alex @acannon.bsky.social · 25d
My high school did not a Calc, Statistics, or Econ class.
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Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth @leniann.bsky.social · 28d
Rezoning: just one tool to make communities more affordable, vibrant & safe. We need investments throughout the entire landscape: $$ CTA, protecting SROs & NOAH, ADU reform, a culture for multimodal city living with accessible social supports to live with dignity blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/18/b...
Broadway Rezoning Fight Intensifies In Edgewater, With Some Neighbors Taking Out Billboards
After a group of neighbors hired an attorney to fight the city's plan to allow taller, denser buildings, others launched a digital campaign in support of the rezoning — and they hope to see it move fo...
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Alex @acannon.bsky.social · 28d
Was around 10-deep in a nice line of bikes and scooters squeezing past standstill car traffic on Kingsbury today. Would be nice to have any bike infra whatsoever over here to meet the demand!
Cyclists pass cars stuck in traffic on a pleasant Wednesday evening
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Alex @acannon.bsky.social · Sep 15
after 65 months, CTA rail operations are back to full pre-pandemic staffing levels!
As of August 2025, CTA rail operations have returned to 2019, pre-covid staffing levels.
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Alex @acannon.bsky.social · Sep 14
We should add the Cool Building on top of every 1st-floor retail spot along Broadway
Sun hits a mid rise residential building on Broadway. Vendor tents sit below in the street.
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Alex @acannon.bsky.social · Sep 12
Posted speed limits in Chicago having almost no correlation to prevailing average speeds feels so corrosive to driving behavior.

Unenforced 55MPH limits on the interstates built for and treated like 75MPH roads is bad.

30MPH is an insane default speed for tight residential one-ways.
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