Matt McCabe

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Honestly, ditto license plates! Sooo many expired, printed on white paper license plates taped to the back of cars without front plates either.

UChicago's To and Through project released the most recent year of data. If you care about Chicago, children in Chicago, or Chicago Public Schools, very worthwhile read. Before you click, test your priors: if 100 9th graders start w/in CPS how many will have a college degree 10 years later?

🙏 may chicago see what other cities have done and copy

I'm ready to get hurt again! 😭

There's still time to complete NITA's 2027 budget survey! It closes at 11:59pm tonight, so you have a few hours to still make your voice heard!

@andrefor40th.bsky.social discussed passing the Smart Streets bill. "We owe it to the memory of people like Matthew McCallum, Riley O’Neil, and Lily Shambrook to get serious about expanding and enforcing the policies that we know protect cyclists and pedestrians." chi.streetsblog.org/2026/10/14/v...

This is awesome and sent me down a rabbit hole looking at Chicago-Milwaukee train schedule. Maybe everyone already knew this but holy crap there are almost 10 trips a day, most under $30, and it's faster than driving! No pressing reason to go to Milwaukee, but now I'm thinking about it!

Sun-Times has a good write-up on the SNP this morning chicago.suntimes.com/transportati...

Housing and affordability are two of the most pressing issues in upcoming elections, including Chicago’s mayoral race. The upcoming mayor will have to go beyond mere promises of “streamlining” and take tangible steps. citythatworks.substack.com/p/confrontin...

Rapid change is possible

this is fantastic news, enactment without enforcement is pointless. don’t park in the bike lane missing you today Bean, nice to hear you remembered and honored by City Hall with this.

Hell yeah, so proud to know and support Nora!

Surface parking is incredibly unpopular "Of the 490 respondents who identified as 44th Ward residents, 438, or 89.5 percent, said they opposed the proposal. Twenty-nine respondents, or 6 percent, supported it, while the rest were neutral or unsure."

📢 Public Hearing: Proposed Weber Spur Trail 🚲🚶 The Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) and Alderman Nugent invite residents to a Public Hearing about the proposed Weber Spur Trail. 📅 Wednesday, October 14, 2026 🕕 6:00–8:00 PM 📍 NEIU Student Union Building www.chicago.gov/weber-spur-t...

How is this not an immediate call from the mayor to CPD brass? Or from alders at the press conference (linked in the thread below) to the mayor saying, call CPD leadership now?

Not sure how many more lives DLSD has to take before we get serious about what we actually want on our lakefront, but apparently the answer is always “at least one more”

Open road toll the Jane Byrne when?

A worthwhile read! A shame current #edusky? #chied? doesn't have the breadth of engagement that 2010s twitter did but curious what other folks think here - of the underlying solutions presented, of the researchers' perspectives etc.

Every day, every intersection.

Which street will look like this in Chicago in 5 years?

Feels like we're in this video - www.ted.com/talks/derek_... - and we're past the first few people joining in and dancing... and if we can build the infra safe enough, connected enough and quickly enough we'll hit a tipping point

Divvy has become an essential part of how Chicagoans move through our city, and this contract extension is about making sure the system continues to work for more people in more neighborhoods.

Induce the demand!! Also, anyone know if they updated designs to make sure the turns will be able to handle cargo bikes? do we need to up the advocacy on that or did they take the feedback after the first public meeting on it?

The "bike bus" idea is simple: Once a week, a group of kids and parents bike to school together. It's an idea being embraced in neighborhoods around Chicago as a way to socialize and push back against car-centric culture, parents say.

You! You reading this right now! Start one! The world instantly gets a tiny bit better when you do, it's like magic.

"Instead of driving to school, more kids are taking the 'bike bus.'" @wbez.org @activetransportation.org @rideillinois.bsky.social @bikegridnow.org @betterstreetschicago.org @chicritmass.bsky.social @chifamilybiking.bsky.social

What labelers are people currently using on Bluesky that you're appreciating? And how are you finding them?

Not the point of the video but "Don't forget I have your binder" is one of the more relatable things I've seen recently 😂

Things I'm also noticing: - the presence of pedestrians made the street safer for everyone, forcing the truck to at least slow down a little - parking protection ends well before intersection but no other hardened infra through the intersection (bump out etc.) means truck is able to cut it sharp

Hey! Learn some stuff before you vote in the (fully elected!) school board election this fall: chicago.suntimes.com/elections/20...

Oh yeah, that's the good stuff, well done Philly

Chicago, where we at? Feels like we're in the upper right corner of the gray "dare" box? Maybe *just* into the able box?

✨HAPPY FRIDAY✨ We love when our two routes make it to school at the same time! A magical moment.✨🚲

That's because e-bikes don't obey any rules.

Traffic safety made the front page and top story!! We need to do so much to prevent the next tragedy, but I'm glad that 21 alders (so far) are supporting this letter with just a few of those next steps

We've got some big updates to the ChiWhoBike ward map! (chiwho.bike/map) First, citywide stats. You can now view stats for the whole city, which we had calculated before, but there was no way to view it! You can also hover or click each lane type to view just bike routes of that type.

Los Angeles County, you are like little baby

We've got people over parking... next up, a required "penalty for putting parking over people payment" with a multiplier within 0.25 mi of transit

The alders' letter references a 2025 report produced by the Equity in Enforcement working group. There's one particular table from the report worth revisiting, reproduced here. The chart is my own approximation, but it shows that a small # of drivers are responsible for a large % of the violations.

What if this is possible in.... other places too?

Since the Smart Streets Pilot Program launched, we’ve been able to improve traffic safety throughout the 34th Ward. It’s common sense to expand this successful program citywide. blockclubchicago.org/2026/09/15/a...

Literally millions of rides every month on Divvy alone, Chicago has a duty to keep its residents safe.

Which ward?