Ryan McCray

The other day, I got a press release claiming that ER visits among kids linked to e-bike crashes had increased *19.1 times over* in just 3 years. It almost certainly isn't true —  but the injured children are very real. Broke down what's really causing the bloodshed and who can finally stop it.

"Without zoning changes, most housing construction over the next 15 years will likely cluster in downtown Chicago and expensive neighborhoods with higher shares of white residents"!

Worst Tom Cruise acting, best Robert Pattinson acting

The biggest victory here isnt even the bus lane itself. Its a victory over The Process: - make a committee - meet with The Groups - make a report - start a non-binding referendum - make a pilot - make a report - make a plan - deploy a few years later People are SICK of this.

"Approximately 1,490 CTA buses on 21 different routes use at least part of the new dedicated bus lane." I agree the lane should be extended, but a bus only lane in such a high visibility and traffic area will do wonders for setting precedent

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

Aldermen call for traffic safety action in wake of city employee’s bike death

"Alongside more than a dozen of our aldermanic colleagues, we endorsed a set of policy recommendations geared toward ensuring tragedies such as what befell O’Neil become a thing of the past." - www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/15/o...

the lack of car traffic on DLSD yesterday and during the holiday today is reminding me of the spring-2020 time when the streets were so much quieter than normal. I know the "cities aren't loud cars are loud" thing is a meme but it really is striking

"Denver renters are seeing a brighter picture now as developers and managers cut rents and offer free-month subsidies to move a glut of units built during 2024 and 2025." Renters are *moving out of subsidized housing into market rate because the rent is cheaper because they built so much.*

Single Stair continues to be a data-supported city law/code change held back by some bad-faith fear but potentially some good-faith implementation concerns on the backend. The implementation concerns can be fixed afterwards, so this should be an easy housing issue for mayoral candidates to support

About to spend 3 days on the beach in Texas. How many times can i say "I wish this beach was concrete" before the fiancé calls off the wedding

As Chicagoans prepare to Bike the Drive, some dream of a car-free lakefront all year. buff.ly/Z7Ky74F

July was a HUGE month for @divvybikes.bsky.social ! 🚲 ✅1M+ rides - a new monthly record ✅Busiest day ever, with 47,400+ trips on July 11 ✅New stations near popular lakefront destinations ✅New charging station outside the Obama Presidential Center www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...

A truly awful parallel. On 6/5 a driver "doored" Chicago planner Riley O'Neil, 35, on his bike and he went under the wheel of a semi. chi.streetsblog.org/2026/06/09/t... On 7/9 a trucker struck and killed Boston planner Louisa Gag, 36, while she was cycling. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

🚨 Urge your alder to hit the brakes on The 78 TIF! 🚨 Instead of investing in public transit like in the original 2019 plans, the City is now trying to ram through $216 million in public subsidies for a parking garage, with little transparency on the impact nor what public benefit this will provide.

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

The Culver's off the Montrose Brown Line is so much bigger than the front suggests, I loved it

Elston bike lane does not get enough credit!! It goes by some car dealerships but was 95% protected or buffered for this trip! Shameless divvy plug, that's a FREE 43 minute e-bike

Lexi didn't think 11 7th graders could eat 6 pizzas at their end of year party today. How wrong she was. Gone instantly. The kids are alright

🎉 It's official, we saved Chicago's intercity bus terminal! Today, Chicago City Council voted to purchase our former Greyhound terminal to establish a publicly-owned intercity bus terminal. This is a massive victory, and a testament to the years of organizing that brought us here today!

Dig in, nerds!

"Nearly every person who gathered to honor Riley could share a story of somebody close to them who had been injured or killed in a crash. And nearly every person understood that the unlicensed, uninsured, illegally parked driver who 'doored' Riley could have easily done the same to any of us."

🚲 New Divvy record: 47,400 rides yesterday! The previous record (42,000 rides) was set just last Saturday. For context, there was only one day over 40,000 rides in all of 2025. Divvy has now had three in the last 8 days. Chicago keeps riding 🚀

O'Hare bound Blue Line is standing room only after Washington right now! I bet some didn't board at Clark/Lake. How does CTA track when trains are too full?

One more way we're remembering Riley. The Divvy station at LaSalle & Washington is now the Riley O'Neil Memorial Station at City Hall. The new name is live in the app today, with signage coming soon. We miss you, buddy 💙🚲

CDOT lost the best of our team yesterday. We're heartbroken. In memory of Riley O'Neil, please refer to these bike racks as "Riley Racks". He led Chicago's bike parking program for several years. Our hearts are broken, but we want to make sure his legacy lives on 💙🚲 Please spread the word

Ald. Martin on single stair: I want people to feel a sense of urgency around this, to say with each new development that gets approved that could use [single stair] but doesn't...that we're losing the opportunity to house more families and people across Chicago

That's a lot of congestion created to drive literally no one around.

Divvy just passed 2 million rides in 2026! Last year, the system didn’t reach that milestone until June 10. Chicago keeps riding more and more 🚲

Maifest really is just beer and carnival games and beer and german food and i love that

Why is my last employer's dental insurance emailing me that they just started processing a claim from 2024? This could be fixed with single payer

He spent $54 MILLION to defeat progressive income taxation in Illinois. WON. And then moved to Florida and pulled all his business from Illinois. Ken Griffin can personally get bent and more.

It feels so good to see raised bike paths like this blooming across Chicago. The precedent each one sets hopefully makes the next one easier. Thank you Josh Mark specifically. You will be missed 🫡😭

I regret to inform everyone it is a beautiful day worthy of a Bike Ride

Hell yeah "This decreases total spaces (19% cut), modestly increases rates (12.6% aggregated), and reduces meter concentration.⁹ Most importantly, it eliminates conflicts with active transportation infrastructure and prevents the city from having to incur true-up costs going forward."

The BUILD initiative lowers housing costs by making it easier, faster, and more cost-effective to build homes in Illinois by: Eliminating unnecessary barriers Streamlining permitting Closing financing gaps for developing housing Lowering costs for construction and renovation

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani, biking in New York City. 🙌💪👏✊️👇

Someone please build 300 homes here, thank you www.flickr.com/photos/james... creativecommons.org/licenses/by-... live.staticflickr.com/65535/551738...

Today CDOT and our counterparts in San Francisco & DC sent a joint letter to Lyft calling for a Bike Angels program that actually works in hybrid systems. The current version is built for fully docked systems like Citi Bike in NYC. Our hybrid systems don’t get the same benefits. 🧵

They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨 London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.

WE ARE SO BACK

Just watched a Waymo with driver take a very greedy left turn. Oh no