A Key Lens for Lori Lightfoot’s Ride-Hail Tax Plan
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CNT's Jacky Grimshaw, Oboi Reed from Equiticity, Julio Rodriguez from the Northwest Side Housing Center, and Leslé Honoré from K.L.E.O. weigh in on the mayor's plan.
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SEE IT! We Talk to Mayor Lightfoot — On the Bus!
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During a morning commute on the #20 Madison, the mayor talked about how the new ride-hail fee structure will fight congestion and improve transit service.
Car-Free Streets? Michigan Avenue, Please!
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Why shouldn't Michigan become a safer, more efficient, and more democratic street as well?
Chicago May Hike Cost of Uber Rides — And That’s Good
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Some of the revenue will be used to help fund transit, including an initiative to speed up neighborhood bus service.
Car2Gone? Here’s How to Reduce Private Cars
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An all-electric, free-floating, equity-minded car-share service like Blue LA would be a great replacement. But we should also focus on improving transit and biking so that people rarely need to drive at all.
Satirical “Bicycle Lobby” Twitter Account Fakes Out Media Giants
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The @BicycleLobby Twitter account is a parody inspired by last year’s unhinged rant about bike-share from Wall Street Journal columnist Dorothy Rabinowitz. Its running joke for the past 13 months has been that “the all-powerful bike lobby” envisioned by Rabinowitz is real — and yes, it controls the universe. Sample tweet from July 20: “Today is […]