Chicago Transport Association
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Chicago transport, bikes, walking, zoning, biz, but no guarantee we won’t talk about something else. Don’t take all posts literally.
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Project News — A New State and Lake Station
statelakestation.com
The city could handle this station like they handled the brown line rehab 15 years ago. Make the platforms bigger and add elevators. $400 million vanity projects do not enhance the rider experience if the trains come every 15-20 min on the weekend. Run more trains
statelakestation.com/project-news
statelakestation.com/project-news
They can’t run the trains, but we’re buying the brown and orange lines a $400 million dollar station!
System Stats as of Dec 21st at 6pm (actual/scheduled):
System: 70% • 935/1,327
Blue: 70% • 179/254
Brown: 54% • 85/156
Green: 77% • 122/158
Orange: 59% • 92/155
Pink: 88% • 128/145
Purple: 46% • 62/134
Red: 78% • 182/232
Yellow: 91% • 85/93
Runs Remaining: 507
System: 70% • 935/1,327
Blue: 70% • 179/254
Brown: 54% • 85/156
Green: 77% • 122/158
Orange: 59% • 92/155
Pink: 88% • 128/145
Purple: 46% • 62/134
Red: 78% • 182/232
Yellow: 91% • 85/93
Runs Remaining: 507
December 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
They can’t run the trains, but we’re buying the brown and orange lines a $400 million dollar station!
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BRENNAN: This isn't everything you asked for just yet, but would you acknowledge that they are complying with the spirit if not the intent of your law?
MASSIE: No. They're flouting the spirit and the letter of the law. It's very troubling the posture that they've taken.
MASSIE: No. They're flouting the spirit and the letter of the law. It's very troubling the posture that they've taken.
December 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
BRENNAN: This isn't everything you asked for just yet, but would you acknowledge that they are complying with the spirit if not the intent of your law?
MASSIE: No. They're flouting the spirit and the letter of the law. It's very troubling the posture that they've taken.
MASSIE: No. They're flouting the spirit and the letter of the law. It's very troubling the posture that they've taken.
Hahahaha “self driving”
At least five FUBARed Waymo robots:
Market & Guerrero, SF
One is a problem, two a mistake, five a major ops screw up. Waymo has never fixed their cascading failure problem. Maybe they don't know how.
Fundamentally unfit for service at scale until they do, IMO.
OP: tiktok.brahmsstan
Market & Guerrero, SF
One is a problem, two a mistake, five a major ops screw up. Waymo has never fixed their cascading failure problem. Maybe they don't know how.
Fundamentally unfit for service at scale until they do, IMO.
OP: tiktok.brahmsstan
December 21, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Hahahaha “self driving”
Hey drivers, please don’t use your phone while driving. Next year, ride the train and see Santa in person instead!
December 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Hey drivers, please don’t use your phone while driving. Next year, ride the train and see Santa in person instead!
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*Forest Park, Illinois
December 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
*Forest Park, Illinois
The city could handle this station like they handled the brown line rehab 15 years ago. Make the platforms bigger and add elevators. $400 million vanity projects do not enhance the rider experience if the trains come every 15-20 min on the weekend. Run more trains
statelakestation.com/project-news
statelakestation.com/project-news
Project News — A New State and Lake Station
statelakestation.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The city could handle this station like they handled the brown line rehab 15 years ago. Make the platforms bigger and add elevators. $400 million vanity projects do not enhance the rider experience if the trains come every 15-20 min on the weekend. Run more trains
statelakestation.com/project-news
statelakestation.com/project-news
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This means density, you know
December 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This means density, you know
Everyone knew this was BS to begin with — Trump and his cronies actively want to harm Chicago. How would removing public transit money make anyone safer? And where is the law that says Chicago even has to do this? blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/19/c...
City Beefs Up Police Presence At CTA Stations, But Feds Still Threaten To Withhold $50 Million
The CTA met a federal deadline to boost security, but the Trump administration called the plan “materially deficient,” giving the agency another 90 days to add more muscle or lose millions.
blockclubchicago.org
December 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Everyone knew this was BS to begin with — Trump and his cronies actively want to harm Chicago. How would removing public transit money make anyone safer? And where is the law that says Chicago even has to do this? blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/19/c...
This admin has a lot of rhetoric for people they don’t like. And is unwilling to compromise too. Great combo
Pat Dowell is an influential and respected member of the City Council. Asked about Mayor Brandon Johnson's recent rhetoric at budget critics, she said: “I don’t know what ‘morally bankrupt’ means. If you can explain that to me, I’ll answer the question.”
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/19/a...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/19/a...
December 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This admin has a lot of rhetoric for people they don’t like. And is unwilling to compromise too. Great combo
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During Midway Blitz, Gregory Bovino and his agents terrorized Chicago and its suburbs in their often discriminatory hunt for immigrants without legal documentation. Even when the bulk of them left, residents didn’t let their guard down and stayed ready. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/18/c...
Chicago remains alert, even as Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and his agents sweep in and out of town
When Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and a throng of masked federal agents returned to Chicago in a flash Tuesday, city residents were ready.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
During Midway Blitz, Gregory Bovino and his agents terrorized Chicago and its suburbs in their often discriminatory hunt for immigrants without legal documentation. Even when the bulk of them left, residents didn’t let their guard down and stayed ready. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/18/c...
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It was almost as if they never left. But Chicago has remained alert, even as Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and his agents sweep in and out of town. Story with @aliceyin.bsky.social
and @taliasoglin.bsky.social
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/18/c...
and @taliasoglin.bsky.social
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/18/c...
Chicago remains alert, even as Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and his agents sweep in and out of town
When Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and a throng of masked federal agents returned to Chicago in a flash Tuesday, city residents were ready.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It was almost as if they never left. But Chicago has remained alert, even as Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and his agents sweep in and out of town. Story with @aliceyin.bsky.social
and @taliasoglin.bsky.social
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/18/c...
and @taliasoglin.bsky.social
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/18/c...
Maybe the Bears should just move to Las Vegas and leave us alone. Billionaires can buy their own stadiums and pay their taxes. abc7chicago.com/post/chicago...
Bears expanding stadium search from Arlington Heights to wider Chicago area, NW Indiana
The Chicago Bears team president said in an open letter that a new expanded stadium site search including Northwest Indiana is due to what he calls a lack of cooperation from Illinois lawmakers.
abc7chicago.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Maybe the Bears should just move to Las Vegas and leave us alone. Billionaires can buy their own stadiums and pay their taxes. abc7chicago.com/post/chicago...
Papers please.
Sounds better in the original German
Sounds better in the original German
Border patrol is forcing rideshare drivers at the O’Hare lot to show proof of citizenship before they can exit the lot and pick up rides at the airport
December 17, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Papers please.
Sounds better in the original German
Sounds better in the original German
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How can you tell they are lying?
They are opening their mouths
They are opening their mouths
Border Patrol called cops on this man and claimed he was trying to ram them. The man denied it to CPD and in a Tribune interview. He was let go. The livestream video doesn’t show the man attempting to ram anyone on LSD
In Chicago, a man on Facebook Live was following the Border Patrol north on Lake Shore Drive. At the end of the drive, a bunch of city cop cars cut off the man who was following and live-streaming Border Patrol.
December 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
How can you tell they are lying?
They are opening their mouths
They are opening their mouths
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Border Patrol is at the Evanston Home Depot. Community members here blowing whistles blowing, DHS chopper flying very low above us.
December 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Border Patrol is at the Evanston Home Depot. Community members here blowing whistles blowing, DHS chopper flying very low above us.
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After raiding shopping plazas in Cicero and Bedford Park this morning, a caravan of Border Patrol agents swung north toward Edgewater.
Several Chicago police vehicles can be seen here intervening to protect their exit from DSLSD onto city streets and escort the caravan.
Several Chicago police vehicles can be seen here intervening to protect their exit from DSLSD onto city streets and escort the caravan.
December 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
After raiding shopping plazas in Cicero and Bedford Park this morning, a caravan of Border Patrol agents swung north toward Edgewater.
Several Chicago police vehicles can be seen here intervening to protect their exit from DSLSD onto city streets and escort the caravan.
Several Chicago police vehicles can be seen here intervening to protect their exit from DSLSD onto city streets and escort the caravan.
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We have popular consensus on many gun safety measures but a democracy problem preventing passage. So long as one party (insulated by gerrymandering) remains in the thrall of a paranoid anti-government cult allergic to social responsibility, we will be stuck in the endless loop of death and paralysis
the gun lobby only partially accounts for failure to enact national common sense gun laws. We cannot ignore the role played by a reactionary ideology antithetical to US progress and reform, badly ignorant of our history and dependent on judicial fiat to get its way.
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Two Countries
Two responses to gun massacres
open.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We have popular consensus on many gun safety measures but a democracy problem preventing passage. So long as one party (insulated by gerrymandering) remains in the thrall of a paranoid anti-government cult allergic to social responsibility, we will be stuck in the endless loop of death and paralysis
Don’t worry, far Northwest-siders! Your NIMBY aldermen will still find ways to ensure those vacant lots near transit sites sit unused! Looking at you, Jeff Park.
It’s official! Today, Gov. Pritzker signed the NITA Act, which funds Illinois transit and provides Chicagoland with a central agency to plan, fund, and deliver a world-class transit system. The bill also removes mandatory parking minimums within a half-mile of major transit hubs!
🚇🤝🏘️
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December 17, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Don’t worry, far Northwest-siders! Your NIMBY aldermen will still find ways to ensure those vacant lots near transit sites sit unused! Looking at you, Jeff Park.
Technically, two CVSes closed. There was also one at the bottom of the inside ramp to Ogilvie on N Riverside Plaza. It closed earlier this year.
Pharmacists are very expensive, and both CVS and Walgreens are very mismanaged at the moment. Don’t expect a reopening.
Pharmacists are very expensive, and both CVS and Walgreens are very mismanaged at the moment. Don’t expect a reopening.
Yikes. The CVS in Ogilvie closed shortly after the pandemic started but has their lease on the space through *2034*. Since then “West Loop Gate” or whatever we’re calling the strip between the River and the Kennedy has become a pharmacy desert. www.chicagobusiness.com/commercial-r...
MetraMarket retail space up for sale
MetraMarket, a retail center that aimed to create a European-style market around downtown's Ogilvie Transportation Center, with mixed results, is up for sale.
www.chicagobusiness.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Technically, two CVSes closed. There was also one at the bottom of the inside ramp to Ogilvie on N Riverside Plaza. It closed earlier this year.
Pharmacists are very expensive, and both CVS and Walgreens are very mismanaged at the moment. Don’t expect a reopening.
Pharmacists are very expensive, and both CVS and Walgreens are very mismanaged at the moment. Don’t expect a reopening.
They passed and signed the NITA act! Stable transit funding is a good thing.
And they have until 2030 to implement what Ventra should have done in the first place: “All fares are collected and managed through a single, integrated system”
capitolfax.com/2025/12/16/p...
And they have until 2030 to implement what Ventra should have done in the first place: “All fares are collected and managed through a single, integrated system”
capitolfax.com/2025/12/16/p...
Capitol Fax.com - Your Illinois News Radar » Pritzker signs mass transit billCapitolFax.com
capitolfax.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:44 PM
They passed and signed the NITA act! Stable transit funding is a good thing.
And they have until 2030 to implement what Ventra should have done in the first place: “All fares are collected and managed through a single, integrated system”
capitolfax.com/2025/12/16/p...
And they have until 2030 to implement what Ventra should have done in the first place: “All fares are collected and managed through a single, integrated system”
capitolfax.com/2025/12/16/p...
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Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino is back in Chicago as agents target the Southwest Side. blockclubchi.co/44y8Ax3
December 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino is back in Chicago as agents target the Southwest Side. blockclubchi.co/44y8Ax3
Hey @durbin.senate.gov thanks for reopening the government without outlawing propaganda videos. Or even trying to
Gregory Bovino is back in Chicago area, a video from WalMart in Cicero posted to social media shows
December 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Hey @durbin.senate.gov thanks for reopening the government without outlawing propaganda videos. Or even trying to
Hard agree with that statement
Scenes from a Chicago area gas station: Gregory Bovino playing rock paper scissors with an agent over who gets what piece of beef jerky while a community member shouts “you’re a piece of shit, you’re a fucking loser!”
December 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Hard agree with that statement
The goon squads are still out there. Don’t lose track of the fact these people must be defeated in the election and in public opinion
MINNEAPOLIS: “We kept yelling ‘she’s pregnant! She’s pregnant!’ — they put their knees in her… the handcuffed woman was dragged on the ground…”
Lawless.
Lawless.
December 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The goon squads are still out there. Don’t lose track of the fact these people must be defeated in the election and in public opinion