This is Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago

What an embarrassment for the city and why I could never live here.

I’d rather live where I know I’m not in a real city than one that pretends to be but isn’t

I have now travelled the entire O’Hare branch of the Blue line, the Harlem branch of the Green line, the Brown line, and the Orange line in Chicago. Excited to eventually get to the other parts of the system

I don’t know if we need to throw out the baby with the bathwater here, especially these changes are to improve safety not just for decoration.

I’ve found that it’s just a mild annoyance and that the protection provided by the improvements are more than worth it

Pretty sunset tonight from the new Damen station

So sorry for your loss but I’m glad he lived a good life that was a positive impact on others

There’s also way too much car access through the park. It could be such a great to provide access to nature in the middle of the city, but it’s ruined by the cars and elevated steel rail

Why is the Green line so loud through Garfield Park? Really ruins the benefit of the park and living nearby

These elevated side platform stations seem especially well suited for full height PSDs

The Green line to Harlem is great, but somehow the Green line back to the Loop is one giant slow zone

It’s not about categories, it’s about train capacity, stop spacing, and grade separation

It’s interesting to me that if the CTA had overhead catenary instead of 3rd rail, LA Metro vehicles would likely be able to run on the L, which shows how similar light and heavy rail actually are

Nice view of Chicago from Oak Park, with an oncoming UPW train

Is there a good reason why the Pink lane only runs 4 car trains even at rush hour? It was packed to the gills; feels like adding 2 cars would do wonders for comfort and ridership

I know there’s construction, but it does not seem great that I can’t see a single CTA train, either Green or Pink, in either direction, as far as I can see down Lake (which seems pretty damn far)

I hope that one day, Chicago can operate their transit like a real city

Brb, gonna go steal a bunch of shit from Hasan’s place cause it’s okay to do so from rich people now

Any amount of thought to #4 just confirms he’s talking about Jews, so it’s just blatant anti-Semitism

“There’s a group of Americans who support a Jewish state in Israel who aren’t white but look white and are outspoken about being oppressed and discriminated against like Black slaves”

So Jews

What’s strange is the article is from last August, so I have no idea why it was reposted now

Or at least the solution now is to use colored concrete (like on Wells, Lisbon, and now E Michigan)

There’s a similar issue with pavers, which should allow for better drainage, but without a concrete base, they are very prone to undulations and other unleveling issues. At least there’s a solution with the concrete, but none so far with asphalt

It’s not impossible since it’s done well in Europe, but I guess it’s just not a skill that our local contractors have developed

The city engineer asks that very same question.

For some reason asphalt laying in narrow spaces (like bike lanes or shared use paths) is very difficult to do and end up being super bumpy (see the Walnut bike lanes west of 43)

From @pollsandvotes.bsky.social Marquette poll.

Trump approval nationally down to -21 points, with only 39% approving.

Even among Republicans his approval is only 78%

We’re approaching a tipping point

Have you never look at state legislatures? The Wisconsin assembly has 12x as many districts as congress and yet was gerrymandered for 12 years (only fixed due to luck around a directly elected supreme court)

My favorite part of the VA referendum (which was also the case for CA) is that the text is explicitly written to be a reactive, rather than proactive, change.

If Republicans hadn’t gone ahead with TX and NC, the VA referendum would not have allowed for redistricting to occur!

Democracy is when Republican elites set the rules to maintain their own power.

Tyranny is when voters support Democratic initiatives

Interesting - the early weeks of the yes campaign had more bipartisan messaging but they switched to an anti-Trump angle, which worked better www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

Yeah Urban Milwaukee has become a bigger source of Milwaukee news for me as a result, which is nice

Addendum: literally the first thing I saw when going to X to reach out to Sam. I miss being on the leading edge of news like this and instead being a few days behind