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At “ghost bike” vigil for Juan Martin Márquez, reminders that reckless drivers have killed far too many vulnerable road users on the Southwest Side
On the afternoon of Saturday, September 26, family, friends, and bike community members gathered at Archer and Laramie avenues in Garfield Ridge to memorialize Juan Martin Márquez. According to the Illinois Traffic Crash Report for his case, he was riding an electric motorcycle to work early in the morning on Monday, September 14, when a pickup driver ran a red light, fatally struck him, and then fled the scene on foot. Juan Martin Márquez.
A year after a hit-and-run driver killed Marcela Herrera in Pilsen, three blocks of Ashland will get safety Improvements
Family, friends, and neighbors of the late Marcela Herrera, 22, gathered Sunday in Pilsen’s Dvorak Park to hold a march marking a year since a hit-and-run driver fatally struck her. The event coincided with the Chicago Department of Transportation’s recent announcement of plans for safety improvements on a three-block stretch of Ashland Avenue near the crash site, including a pedestrian island at the intersection where the crash occured.
There is a train directly behind this one: A follow-up bill for the NITA Act
This post is sponsored by Keating Law Offices. By Austin Busch Major legislation in Springfield has a tendency to pass late at night at the end of a session, leaving bills a little rough around the edges. Following the last-minute passage of the Northern Illinois Transit Authority Act in the wee hours of last Halloween, it was expected that a cleanup bill making small adjustments and clerical fixes would be considered in the spring.
Community marches to demand justice for hit-and-run victim Marcela Herrera
By Austin Busch. Marcela Herrera was fatally struck last summer in Pilsen by a driver who fled the scene. Yesterday, Sunday, April 20, her family and friends of held a rally in to demand answers from the Chicago Police Department over its handling of her case. Marcela Herrera, right, and her fiancé, Mauricio Leyva.
It’s a shame about Ray: Ald. Raymond Lopez parachutes into committee meeting to rant against Archer project, Complete Streets in general
This post is sponsored by Boulevard Bikes. By Austin Busch An at-capacity crowd gathered on Monday for the Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety’s annual Complete Streets subject matter hearing. Short debates over proposed ordinances to prevent commercial parking violations, and to increase notifications before bridge repair closures, bookended a Chicago Department of Transportation presentation on the City’s Complete Streets program.
The Doom Loop: Chicago Transit Agencies Begin Planning 40% Service Cuts
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The cutting edge: Transit agencies begin planning 40% service reductions
By Austin Busch Read the first half of this series, "Next stop, fiscal cliff: Advocates respond to Illinois legislators’ failure to fund transit before the deadline." The failure of the Illinois House to pass a bill funding public transportation across the state before the May 31deadline means that transit agencies will need to cut service.
Next stop, fiscal cliff: Illinois legislators fail to fund transit before deadline
After more than a year of negotiations and debate, transit revenue and reform failed to pass the state legislature by the budget deadline on Saturday, May 31. There are still options to avert the transit fiscal cliff, though they require a higher threshold to pass. Local transit agencies must dedicate significant resources to preparing for difficult service cuts in the meantime.
It's the final countdown: A new transit bill materialized this morning
We're in the eleventh hour for the state legislature to address the looming $771 million Chicagoland transit fiscal cliff. The end of the regular legislative session is this Saturday, May 31, and transit budgets that need to be in place by the end of fall.
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