Chicago. Transportation law, policy, and technology mostly. Senior Advisor, Metropolitan Planning Council. Views my own. One ticket, one timetable, one network....
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“Cities have largely lost the power to say yes to construction. To prevent officials from acting against the public interest, we have drained them of the power to act in the public interest.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...
Speakers include:
-Dr. Patricia "Trish" Hendren, Executive Director of The Eastern Transportation Coalition
-Adie Tomer, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program.
-Heather Worthington, Principal at Urban3
These are all folks who are deeply engaged in urbanism/transportation.
New Dangerous By Design report @smartgrowthusa.bsky.social. Pedestrian fatality trend has worsened in the Chicago region and in Illinois as a whole.
The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning is putting together its Century Plan, a long term vision for the region, addition to its next Regional Transportation Plan. On 6/23 CMAP is hosting a "future-focused transportation conversation." Public invited. content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ILC...
If you were wondering how to get involved with making #BuildTheTunnel a reality, this is a great place to start: above and beyond telling CMAP to include the tunnel in the RTP, start talking to your local electeds about building political support too.
DIY community efforts to build, supply, and maintain bus stop benches to support transit and assist riders. usa.streetsblog.org/2026/06/15/t...
Many cities resist DIY transit and traffic safety efforts, routinely tearing out such installations. One city, however, has established a bus stop seating permit system to facilitate community bus bench initiatives. Adopt-a-Bus- Bench a winning NITA program? usa.streetsblog.org/2026/06/15/t...
"A transportation system designed primarily for speed will inevitably produce deadly outcomes. And when crashes happen, we blame drivers or pedestrians instead of the transportation agencies and design choices that made those outcomes far more likely in the first place."
CMAP's Century Plan "initiative invites voices across government, civic spheres, business, and communities to prioritize what the region will need to thrive by midcentury... and provide policy guidance on how we get there." One can comment via this webpage. engage.cmap.illinois.gov/the-century-...
A draft of CMAP's Regional Transportation Plan, which greenlights over a half trillion dollars of transportation projects in the Chicago region between now and 2050, is now open for public comment. bsky.app/profile/thom...
