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Professional lighter of people, Energy guy when I want to be, policy person, @CHIRPRadio DJ. Bike guy. Chicago Dog stan. Doesn't proofread. Chicago by way of Cleveland | 🇳🇴
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Guess who is back in business?
The CTA Holiday Train is on the Orange line toward Loop
Next Stops:
• Pulaski: Due - 3:54 PM
• Kedzie: 1m - 3:55 PM
• Western: 4m - 3:58 PM
• 35th/Archer: 8m - 4:02 PM
• Ashland: 11m - 4:05 PM
Track It Here
Next Stops:
• Pulaski: Due - 3:54 PM
• Kedzie: 1m - 3:55 PM
• Western: 4m - 3:58 PM
• 35th/Archer: 8m - 4:02 PM
• Ashland: 11m - 4:05 PM
Track It Here
November 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Guess who is back in business?
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BIKE UPDATE! I biked the ENTIRE LENGTH of Illinois’ 9th Congressional District from Uptown shoreline at Lake Michigan to the Cary Metra stop!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoUw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoUw...
A bike ride across Illinois' 9th Congressional District
YouTube video by MikeSimmons
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
BIKE UPDATE! I biked the ENTIRE LENGTH of Illinois’ 9th Congressional District from Uptown shoreline at Lake Michigan to the Cary Metra stop!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoUw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoUw...
Tomorrow, bike off today's dinner
I'll be putting on a bike ride for Black Friday, along a route that closely follows the course of the first-ever automobile race on its 130th anniversary.
11/28/25 at 10am, starting at the Thomas Garrigue Masaryk Monument at 59th/Dorchester.
More details: ridewithgps.com/routes/53085...
11/28/25 at 10am, starting at the Thomas Garrigue Masaryk Monument at 59th/Dorchester.
More details: ridewithgps.com/routes/53085...
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Tomorrow, bike off today's dinner
A month in Halifax could probably fix me
November 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
A month in Halifax could probably fix me
Talked myself into buying my first adult coat today (that is not a puffer). My bank account is not thankful for me
November 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Talked myself into buying my first adult coat today (that is not a puffer). My bank account is not thankful for me
Jonathan Groff is always up to something cool
November 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Jonathan Groff is always up to something cool
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I completed my final count. Out of 10,511 bus stops, I found that 4,360 (41%) of them could be removed to align with national best practices of 1/4 mile spacing. Long-form explainer article and an interactive map are forthcoming. Green dots are removed stops, black are kept stops.
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I completed my final count. Out of 10,511 bus stops, I found that 4,360 (41%) of them could be removed to align with national best practices of 1/4 mile spacing. Long-form explainer article and an interactive map are forthcoming. Green dots are removed stops, black are kept stops.
Buccatini you completely uncooperative pasta how dare you
November 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Buccatini you completely uncooperative pasta how dare you
What's everyone's uncommon allergy? I'm allergic to argon, the neutral gas. I learned this when I started welding
November 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
What's everyone's uncommon allergy? I'm allergic to argon, the neutral gas. I learned this when I started welding
My case got dismissed after the first question
In The Situation, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org and @katherinepomps.bsky.social create a choose-your-own-adventure game for Lindsey Halligan which reflects all the many, many ways she can lose the James Comey case if reinstated.
The Situation: You Get To Play Lindsey Halligan’s Hand
She made her bed. Now you get to lie in it.
lawfaremedia.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
My case got dismissed after the first question
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Great news! Connecticut governor Ned Lamont, a noted coward, has finally located his big-boy pants and signed the legislature's amazing, ambitious housing bill. Among other things, it nukes parking mandates!
Gov. Lamont signs much-debated CT affordable housing bill after vetoing previous version
The bill is Connecticut's most significant housing legislation in decades.
www.ctinsider.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Great news! Connecticut governor Ned Lamont, a noted coward, has finally located his big-boy pants and signed the legislature's amazing, ambitious housing bill. Among other things, it nukes parking mandates!
Some words from me in Streetsblog this morning. chi.streetsblog.org/2025/11/25/k...
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Some words from me in Streetsblog this morning. chi.streetsblog.org/2025/11/25/k...
I completed my final count. Out of 10,511 bus stops, I found that 4,360 (41%) of them could be removed to align with national best practices of 1/4 mile spacing. Long-form explainer article and an interactive map are forthcoming. Green dots are removed stops, black are kept stops.
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I completed my final count. Out of 10,511 bus stops, I found that 4,360 (41%) of them could be removed to align with national best practices of 1/4 mile spacing. Long-form explainer article and an interactive map are forthcoming. Green dots are removed stops, black are kept stops.
The Divvy contract is structured so that once the City made $20MM from it, their profit share was reduced to 5% of revenue. That date was approximately September 23rd, 2022 (duration: ~9 years) and since then (through 2023) they have made $410k (79k in 2022, 321k in 2023.
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The Divvy contract is structured so that once the City made $20MM from it, their profit share was reduced to 5% of revenue. That date was approximately September 23rd, 2022 (duration: ~9 years) and since then (through 2023) they have made $410k (79k in 2022, 321k in 2023.
Divvy membership growth is constantly adding ~13.7k/new members per year
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Divvy membership growth is constantly adding ~13.7k/new members per year
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Review: A truly terrible ‘Taming of the Shrew’ at Court Theatre
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Review: A truly terrible ‘Taming of the Shrew’ at Court Theatre
The heavyweight conceit here is that we are watching a play within a play, a group of amateur actors doing the show for the first time.
trib.al
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Review: A truly terrible ‘Taming of the Shrew’ at Court Theatre
trib.al/Ge3ro4s
trib.al/Ge3ro4s
Open up the McCormick Busway for cyclists to bypass downtown
November 26, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Open up the McCormick Busway for cyclists to bypass downtown
English being a clunky language means that often songs written in another language (with an English captions so I can understand) are more impactful and meaningful than if the song was sung in English. Nearly tearing up at "Chuwi Navidades en Cataño" Go listen.
youtu.be/r3ZPhIZ6_bM?...
youtu.be/r3ZPhIZ6_bM?...
Chuwi: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 12:38 AM
English being a clunky language means that often songs written in another language (with an English captions so I can understand) are more impactful and meaningful than if the song was sung in English. Nearly tearing up at "Chuwi Navidades en Cataño" Go listen.
youtu.be/r3ZPhIZ6_bM?...
youtu.be/r3ZPhIZ6_bM?...
A little funny that in shapes.txt from the GTFS package, if a CTA bus needed to make a stop it got drawn as a 90° turn into the bus stop
November 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
A little funny that in shapes.txt from the GTFS package, if a CTA bus needed to make a stop it got drawn as a 90° turn into the bus stop
It's been a few months and I don't think the raised intersection at Leland/Damen is doing much. All the drivers on Damen continue to decide they have the ultimate right of way or just drive towards you as you're crossing. It's probably the same as before but it almost feels less safe.
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It's been a few months and I don't think the raised intersection at Leland/Damen is doing much. All the drivers on Damen continue to decide they have the ultimate right of way or just drive towards you as you're crossing. It's probably the same as before but it almost feels less safe.
Bold of the grocery store to assume it can change the flow of the self-checkout and everybody will modify the behavior they habits they've created in the past five years
November 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Bold of the grocery store to assume it can change the flow of the self-checkout and everybody will modify the behavior they habits they've created in the past five years
I've made several attempts at making a decision making algorithm in R for a CTA speedrun using GTFS data and its sort of a relief that this is a problem that seems best solved by human power. Anyway, going to do a run tomorrow where I will inevitably use same strategy
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I've made several attempts at making a decision making algorithm in R for a CTA speedrun using GTFS data and its sort of a relief that this is a problem that seems best solved by human power. Anyway, going to do a run tomorrow where I will inevitably use same strategy
Should I get Subway Builder yet?
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Should I get Subway Builder yet?
We need to name a new phenomenon that describes when you have to fight so hard to obtain public records that you become disinterested in the records once you get them (usually they are no longer timely)
November 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
We need to name a new phenomenon that describes when you have to fight so hard to obtain public records that you become disinterested in the records once you get them (usually they are no longer timely)
Almost bought one of these a few months ago 😅
CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using Batteries for E-Bikes from Rad Power Bikes Due to Fire Hazard; Risk of Serious Injury or Death www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
November 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Almost bought one of these a few months ago 😅