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Sarah Freishtat
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Once: reporter @chicagotribune. Now investigating elsewhere.
CTA so far says it continues to view the Red Line extension grant agreement as “a binding and legal commitment”
January 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Mayor Brandon Johnson on the federal grant freeze this morning, from @aliceyin.bsky.social

Unclear right now how this would affect CTA, which gets federal COVID-19 relief funds to keep running trains and buses, and just signed an agreement for a huge federal grant for the Red Line extension.
January 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
CTA’s announcement 👇
January 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Reopening the express lanes on the Kennedy has been pushed back to January, as work continues to get the reversible lane system up and running.

Last year lanes reopened in early December, but this year IDOT said work on the reversible lanes turned out to be more complicated than expected
December 17, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Former Chicago Department of Transportation commissioner Gia Biagi is heading to IDOT
December 10, 2024 at 10:26 PM
🚨After six years of negotiating, multiple owners and immeasurable effort by so many people in this newsroom, we have a contract
November 15, 2024 at 11:34 PM