Chicago Fietser
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Chicago by bike.
Reluctant birder.
Pro building a lot more homes.
Parking Reform.
Less cars in our lives.
Reluctant birder.
Pro building a lot more homes.
Parking Reform.
Less cars in our lives.
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Breathless coverage of one person injured, not killed, on a CTA train, vs. a brief on Page 9 when two people are killed on the road. That’s because road death happens ALL THE TIME - 3 1/2 road fatalities per day in Illinois.
It looks like the number of transit riders killed this year is one …
It looks like the number of transit riders killed this year is one …
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Breathless coverage of one person injured, not killed, on a CTA train, vs. a brief on Page 9 when two people are killed on the road. That’s because road death happens ALL THE TIME - 3 1/2 road fatalities per day in Illinois.
It looks like the number of transit riders killed this year is one …
It looks like the number of transit riders killed this year is one …
All the winter cycling videos are popping up.
Reminder: Winter recreation/fitness cycling versus transportation cycling are very different.
Transportation cycling: don’t stress too much. Don’t go out and buy all the gear. Keep riding and address your discomforts as they come up.
Reminder: Winter recreation/fitness cycling versus transportation cycling are very different.
Transportation cycling: don’t stress too much. Don’t go out and buy all the gear. Keep riding and address your discomforts as they come up.
November 24, 2025 at 3:06 AM
All the winter cycling videos are popping up.
Reminder: Winter recreation/fitness cycling versus transportation cycling are very different.
Transportation cycling: don’t stress too much. Don’t go out and buy all the gear. Keep riding and address your discomforts as they come up.
Reminder: Winter recreation/fitness cycling versus transportation cycling are very different.
Transportation cycling: don’t stress too much. Don’t go out and buy all the gear. Keep riding and address your discomforts as they come up.
@westtowns-urbanist.bsky.social @peterlewis-jpg.bsky.social Any experience or tips taking a Brompton on the Amtrak Blue Water or similar? Will be my first time today. Planning on putting it in a IKEA Dimpa bag.
November 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
@westtowns-urbanist.bsky.social @peterlewis-jpg.bsky.social Any experience or tips taking a Brompton on the Amtrak Blue Water or similar? Will be my first time today. Planning on putting it in a IKEA Dimpa bag.
Most Americans have no concept of a car free lifestyle and have no idea how great it is.
Right, this is true, but the OVERWHELMING evidence of the past 100 years of American life is that vastly more people want space and a car than a smaller unit and a car-free lifestyle. This is mostly why the suburban share of US population has grown relentlessly for the entire 20th and 21st century
Some people put a premium on space in my experience, others put a premium on not having to have a car and not being isolated out in the suburbs
November 19, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Most Americans have no concept of a car free lifestyle and have no idea how great it is.
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This is a small snow plow for sidewalks
If your city plows the roads but leaves sidewalks up to property owners, your city hates pedestrians.
If your city plows the roads but leaves sidewalks up to property owners, your city hates pedestrians.
November 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This is a small snow plow for sidewalks
If your city plows the roads but leaves sidewalks up to property owners, your city hates pedestrians.
If your city plows the roads but leaves sidewalks up to property owners, your city hates pedestrians.
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Illinois now is the time to try for a progressive tax again
BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
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Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power
One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Illinois now is the time to try for a progressive tax again
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
Amazing how Meet Me On Milwaukee can double revenue for local businesses but business owners believe doing it more than once per month would make it “less special.”
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/03/c...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/03/c...
Car-Free ‘Meet Me On Milwaukee’ Events Will Return To Wicker Park Next Year
The program blocked off Milwaukee Avenue between Damen and Ashland avenues to cars and buses for three Sundays this summer and fall, boosting foot traffic and business activity, organizers said.
blockclubchicago.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Amazing how Meet Me On Milwaukee can double revenue for local businesses but business owners believe doing it more than once per month would make it “less special.”
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/03/c...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/03/c...
Exactly how I appeared from the outside but still shocking to read. What was the House thinking?
November 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Exactly how I appeared from the outside but still shocking to read. What was the House thinking?
To all my Chicago lizards.
November 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
To all my Chicago lizards.
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alt headline: Illinois Legislature adopts transit revenues and reforms to ensure that drive times don't worsen
October 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
alt headline: Illinois Legislature adopts transit revenues and reforms to ensure that drive times don't worsen
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Feeling proud of Illinois. We are funding transit when many other states decided transit wasn’t important.
October 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Feeling proud of Illinois. We are funding transit when many other states decided transit wasn’t important.
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Fuck Halloween I got my transit funding, I'm happy :)
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD MORNING EVERYONE
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
WE FINALLY GOT OUR TRANSIT FUNDING AS ALL ILLINOIANS DESERVE!!! 🥳🥳🥳
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
WE FINALLY GOT OUR TRANSIT FUNDING AS ALL ILLINOIANS DESERVE!!! 🥳🥳🥳
I'll find out in the morning 🌚
October 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Fuck Halloween I got my transit funding, I'm happy :)
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Downstate folks upset about the share of funding that’d go to NE Illinois in the latest iteration of the transit bill, consider this: about 845,000 people rode CTA on an average day in 2024. That’s more than the population of every county in the state except Cook and DuPage.
October 31, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Downstate folks upset about the share of funding that’d go to NE Illinois in the latest iteration of the transit bill, consider this: about 845,000 people rode CTA on an average day in 2024. That’s more than the population of every county in the state except Cook and DuPage.
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Good news: veto session does not have a hard limit, we can keep going far past midnight.
Bad news: veto session does not have a hard limit, we can keep going far past midnight.
Bad news: veto session does not have a hard limit, we can keep going far past midnight.
October 31, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Good news: veto session does not have a hard limit, we can keep going far past midnight.
Bad news: veto session does not have a hard limit, we can keep going far past midnight.
Bad news: veto session does not have a hard limit, we can keep going far past midnight.
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Counterproposal: The Bears should buy the parking meter lease and give it back to the City.
October 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Counterproposal: The Bears should buy the parking meter lease and give it back to the City.
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Chicago transit bsky having another 18 inning baseball game rn
October 31, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Chicago transit bsky having another 18 inning baseball game rn
Wow. Am I about to get a ‘SB 2111’ tattoo?
October 31, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Wow. Am I about to get a ‘SB 2111’ tattoo?
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Five months later, the House somehow still got caught entirely flat-footed: watering down reforms, hiking regressive taxes, and basically throwing whatever else at the wall to see what could stick, all for a bill pronounced DOA by the Governor’s office within hours.
That’s not hard, that’s silly.
That’s not hard, that’s silly.
October 30, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Five months later, the House somehow still got caught entirely flat-footed: watering down reforms, hiking regressive taxes, and basically throwing whatever else at the wall to see what could stick, all for a bill pronounced DOA by the Governor’s office within hours.
That’s not hard, that’s silly.
That’s not hard, that’s silly.
Playing 20 questions with the Governor is getting old. Pritzker needs to be up front about what revenue he’s comfortable supporting.
More importantly though, it's time to come clean and take a stand on revenue sources. We know what revenue sources the Governor doesn't like; @govpritzker.illinois.gov, what transit revenue package *would* you support?
The House and Senate are clearly still light years apart; we need leadership.
The House and Senate are clearly still light years apart; we need leadership.
October 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Playing 20 questions with the Governor is getting old. Pritzker needs to be up front about what revenue he’s comfortable supporting.
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The House and the governor's office had five months to get on the same page regarding revenue, and clearly they failed to do so. How the heck do we have a legislative supermajority + a generally agreeable governor and still fall short?? Advocates have been hounding them for MONTHS. So frustrating.
October 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The House and the governor's office had five months to get on the same page regarding revenue, and clearly they failed to do so. How the heck do we have a legislative supermajority + a generally agreeable governor and still fall short?? Advocates have been hounding them for MONTHS. So frustrating.
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Two points I would suggest:
• Don’t let a single geography be able to unilaterally kill any progress with NITA (bring back the 15-vote threshold option)
• New revenues should be less regressive (sales tax increase) or gimmicky (streaming tax) and more transportation-related (Uber/Lyft, burrito taxi)
• Don’t let a single geography be able to unilaterally kill any progress with NITA (bring back the 15-vote threshold option)
• New revenues should be less regressive (sales tax increase) or gimmicky (streaming tax) and more transportation-related (Uber/Lyft, burrito taxi)
Thanks for going through it. Will call my legislators' offices today
October 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Two points I would suggest:
• Don’t let a single geography be able to unilaterally kill any progress with NITA (bring back the 15-vote threshold option)
• New revenues should be less regressive (sales tax increase) or gimmicky (streaming tax) and more transportation-related (Uber/Lyft, burrito taxi)
• Don’t let a single geography be able to unilaterally kill any progress with NITA (bring back the 15-vote threshold option)
• New revenues should be less regressive (sales tax increase) or gimmicky (streaming tax) and more transportation-related (Uber/Lyft, burrito taxi)
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She has now ordered Bovino to appear personally at the court every day to report back what has happened and to list everyone arrested who is not being arrested for immigration enforcement reasons. This is the most insane court session I've ever been in. Feels like a headteacher bollocking
October 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
She has now ordered Bovino to appear personally at the court every day to report back what has happened and to list everyone arrested who is not being arrested for immigration enforcement reasons. This is the most insane court session I've ever been in. Feels like a headteacher bollocking