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Transportation headlines, Wednesday, March 26

Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Pick your social media poison!  NTSB: CTA operator dozed off, didn’t wake up until crash at O’Hare (CBS Chicago)  The operator of the train that crashed into a platform and [continue reading]

Transportation headlines, Friday, August 9

Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the Library’s Transportation Headlines online newspaper, which you can also access via email subscription (visit the newspaper site) or RSS feed. Study: cyclists gravitate toward streets with protected [continue reading]

The art of transit

photo by David B. Gleason, via Flickr’s creative commons The photo is from 2007, but it’s a good one, showing an ultra-wide bike lane on Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago, where current Mayor Rahm Emanuel has proposed building 25 miles of protected bike lanes each year. Those are lanes in which [continue reading]