My husband works out in the burbs and usually picks me up from the nearest Metra station if we're heading to a family event after his shift. Some people look at me like a lost puppy when we tell them I took the train.

True enough, though I always wonder if it's a chicken-or-the-egg situation when a low ridership station also receives low service.

But maybe some of these should just be consolidated (looking at you, LaVergne-Berwyn-Harlem).

Oh no, not the horror of someone being able to see into your backyard.
NIMBYs are beyond parody.

One of the reasons I hope Metra doesn't go with the N/W/S letter scheme. It doesn't seem intuitive or helpful to go from two "West" lines to three.

CTA also needs articulated buses with three sets of doors instead of just two.

Shout out to the towns which are already coterminous with their townships. They actually dissolved Evanston Township and absorbed its responsibilities into the City of Evanston.

Uuggghhh the overstimulation

Good news that probably got lost yesterday while we were all watching Springfield: CTA and CDOT are planning on bus priority improvements along some routes. Hopefully they can get it done right, and deploy this more widely!

Now I'm imagining an automated people mover from the train station out to this airport in the middle of nowhere.

Not next to train line *yet* but let's throw in the Metra extension to Kankakee!

Peak capitalism brain is thinking that "finding efficiencies" is a get-out-of-jail-free card.

My job is to read and extract information from legal documents so we can plug it into our database. Sounds exactly like the type of work that would be obsolete if you think Copilot can do it faster.

(He said from Forest Park, which is outside the city but feels more "urban" than some areas within Chicago.)