"The biggest threat to the exciting transformation of Bay Area transit isn’t voters’ willingness to fund it — it’s a focus on local control among some existing transit agency staff and elected officials at the expense of better system coordination."
> A short history of Colorado lawmakers’ magical thinking on RTD reform
> State leaders have spent decades tinkering with transit system’s operations — while doing little to give it more resources
I love when business owners protest bike lanes and street changes to newspapers. Then I can do the thing they say the changes will do to their business: stop people from getting to them. Because I won’t be going there anymore
Especially if you’re protesting changes to a street that got an entire family killed by an SUV and all you care about is still cars.
lol workers from Transit Worker's Union Local 100 refused to bus protestors from a Seder in the streets of New York to the precinct, so the pigs had to do it themselves. Power to the workers!
Huh, the new Bears proposal for a stadium is... wildly different than I expected :otter_peek: I really like what the renders did with the old Soldier Field columns (and frankly, the UFO they landed inside of it was always a massively ugly waste of money). I feel mostly ambivalent on the proposal I think, provided taxpayers aren't on the hook for it.
If this proposal actually happens, civic leaders from the south side really should lobby hard for the CTA to revisit the Gold Line proposal to take part of the existing Metra electric right-of-way and turn it into a rapid transit corridor. If the city really wants to revitalize the lakefront and drive tourism, they should focus on increasing access between the lakefront parks (the stupid bean/Millennium Park, Grant Park, etc), the Museum Campus (the Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, Planetarium, Soldier Field), McCormick Place, and Jackson Park (the Museum of Science and Industry and the new Barack Obama Presidential Library). Plus the Gold Line could be used to bring a valuable link for south lake shore communities between the Loop all the way down to South Chicago. :vg_puro_shrug: Seems like a win/win to me.
Side note: Also, boost the Green Line back to Jackson Park like it used to be :neofox_what: It'd make for a great transfer point for people between the Gold Line and the Green Line.
Transit Cookie (so glad I get to have more rides with her! Looks like she’s come out of the critical period and is making a miraculous rebound to health)
(Pics from recent train rides before her hospitalization)
Instead of providing more transportation to the place people want to go (and are willing to pay to go there), let's hide the line from the people who don't know it exists.
What kind of opposite day are they having at the city council over there?