Works in IT, but likes to talk about Cities & Transportation.
Joined March 2013
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5 Nov 2024
This is great, but I'm bummed Chicago didn't get NYC Bus's vehicle vaporizing technology. It'd really help move the buses faster. Maybe they can get it eventually.
4 Nov 2024
A city program that automatically tickets drivers parked in downtown bike and bus lanes kicked off Monday, over a year after the City Council approved the pilot program, which uses camera mounts on city vehicles. trib.al/hjkSzwG
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31 Oct 2024
We need bollards everywhere.
31 Oct 2024
Sadly, even the families of rock stars like Billy Corgan aren’t immune to Chicagoland traffic violence. His mother-in-law was injured when a driver crashed into Corgan's Highland Park tea house while she was eating there with his son. chi.streetsblog.org/2024/10/…
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MLKendricks retweeted
28 Oct 2024
a key thing you need to know in order to understand illinois is most people agree there are too many local governments which creates inefficiencies, corruption, etc. & at the same time if you suggest merging the average illinoisan’s community with another they’ll try to kill you
28 Oct 2024
if you’ve never seen the map of every chicago suburb in illinois with its own local government before, prepare to be shocked
ALT map of chicago suburbs
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24 Oct 2024
My favorite thing about visiting Japan? Bollards EVERYWHERE!
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4 Oct 2024
Exciting news! The endangered Pike House has secured $1.5M in funding for preservation, thanks to advocacy & partnerships @bapa_org, announced by State Sen. Willie Preston. Great to see this '22 Most Endangered place get the funding it needs! Learn more: 📰ow.ly/2fWk50TEvPp
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2 Oct 2024
There’s currently an actual ballet happening in Gallagher Way outside of Wrigley right now. You truly never know what you’re going to come across around here.
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2 Oct 2024
Well concerts famously don't end at predictable times on pre-scheduled days. How would the CTA know there'd be high demand for transit at this time?
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2 Oct 2024
What's ridiculous is the Vance is the Jr senator of a state that has a lot of historically underpopulated cities like Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dayton, & Youngstown.
Maybe the gov't could incentivize people to move back to existing cities with extra space!
2 Oct 2024
I love Vance saying Trump’s gonna solve the housing crisis by building homes on federal land. You’re not gonna solve the housing crisis in major cities when the majority of federal land is in the middle of nowhere.
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1 Oct 2024
Underrated reason why some people really hate speed cameras.
27 Sep 2024
Police stop more Black drivers, while speed cameras issue unbiased tickets − new study from Chicago theconversation.com/police-s…
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30 Sep 2024
Odds of a child getting kidnapped are ~1 in a million.
Odds of a child born in 2021 dying in a traffic crash are ~1 in 93.
Parents act like these stats are reversed. Paranoid about rare kidnappings and naive about the common driving.
(Natl Safety Council tracks this stuff)
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23 Sep 2024
There's been talk of demolishing the McCormick Place Lakeside Center, East Building forever. If it finally happens, it'd be an excellent location for festival grounds. Imagine having actual bathrooms and real concessions stands, and not destroying a bunch of grass!
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23 Sep 2024
Chicago needs a permanent festival ground. All these events are ruining the grass in parks for months and months. Parks aren't built for concerts like this.
23 Sep 2024
Day 11 in year 9 of Riot Fest’s desecration of our park. While attendees and Riot Fest boosters claim, “it’s only a weekend!” We know the damage lasts much longer than that.
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17 Sep 2024
The uncomfortable truth is that any large project, good or bad, requires some eminent domain. That's definitely the case with High Speed Rail, the same as it was with interstates.
15 Sep 2024
Confiscating private property: yes? no? why?
"Texas officials plan to use eminent domain powers to take land from private property owners, as the state moves forward with plans for its first-ever high-speed rail."
newsweek.com/texas-high-spee…
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17 Sep 2024
To me, the ultimate point of a speed camera is to eventually no longer be necessary. That's why the revenue should go directly into fixing the street, not into the general fund.
17 Sep 2024
I think speed cameras are good overall, but if the money isn't going towards traffic calming and safety, then people are going to feel like they're just money making operations.
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17 Sep 2024
I think speed cameras are good overall, but if the money isn't going towards traffic calming and safety, then people are going to feel like they're just money making operations.
16 Sep 2024
In the 75 days since the speed camera at 10540 S Western Ave was installed in late May, it's issued a mind-boggling 59,152 tickets. That's over 46 an hour! The peak was on 6/9, when it caught 1352 speeders. Or 1.3 a minute.
But what do you expect when the road looks like this?
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17 Sep 2024
On Western Ave, CDOT has had some pedestrian islands and bump-outs between 103rd and 115th & that's a great start, but they need to do more in the neighborhood of the speed camera itself.
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12 Sep 2024
Has anyone tried adding their library card to Google Wallet and using it at @chipublib ? Will they accept it?
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MLKendricks retweeted
11 Sep 2024
My latest for @BlockClubCHI (with great photos by @colinbphoto) is a portrait of one Chicago high school — and how a teacher shortage, school politics and a lack of funding is having a detrimental impact on student learning
blockclubchicago.org/2024/09…
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