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I like the Randolph plan - but State is our best bet at La Rambla … the architecture, subway stations with skylights, one bus lane on each side, an allee of trees, done.

“Snitching” is terrible framing that reveals just how “gangster” drivers are. Drivers literally get away with murder in this city. We should be allowed to enforce the laws and improve public safety.

Units?

A headline from a dark age country…

Good thing we live in Chicago, not “America.”

The zoning code is obviously terrible but B2 is a good way to limit auto-oriented uses and allow ground floor residential. Every half mile major street isn’t going to be a major retail corridor again so it’s kind of the best tool we have in many cases - especially South & West Sides.

The first spike was when Rahm closed 50 neighborhood schools. The second was Covid.

Working on it 😉

They live in humane, walkable cities with a great sense of community, exercise, lighting, and outdoor dining year round with blankets and fires burning, etc. By escaping into cars we degrade our environment and forget how to live together, despite the weather.

The strip mall area south of Belmont at Clark and Halsted should be the target.

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He is such a pathetic wannabe rich loser

Talk is cheap Governor. Your actions this morning, with the State Police enabling ICE fascists to go about terrorizing and kidnapping Chicagoans, speak louder than anything you’ve ever said. It will never be forgotten.

America was fascist 60 years before it came to Germany (KKK)

Stop assisting ICE with State Police!

New barricades erected near Broadview ICE facility in effort to limit protesters from blocking street Local and state authorities installed the barriers Thursday to allow room for protests but also keep the street clear. Demonstrators trying to block federal vehicles from entering and leaving the faci...

@govpritzker.illinois.gov this is local law enforcement enabling fascists - the exact opposite of what we need to do - barricade ICE in their detention facility - stop them from terrorizing our communities! chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Result of gentrification and down zoning vast areas to RS

Practical advice … stop driving if/when you can. You will be happier, fitter, and more aware and connected to the city in which you live.

CDOT designed a 2-way roundabout, destroying the very concept and benefit of roundabouts 😂. This design is so dumb, but I guess better than status quo.

How often do you drive alone? - just blocking the street with a mobile living room. Cars consume a McMansion worth of space at higher speeds - they are the least efficient, and most expensive and dangerous way to move through a city… and sit parked 90% of the time. This is a simple geometry problem.

America started going insane when it moved to car-dependent suburbs … escape fantasies, hyper-segregation, consumers instead of citizens, complete social isolation, having zero real world experience in what you pretend to know about, etc.

You cannot possibly think that we will take you seriously as an environmental organization when you’re advertising a planet and child killing monster truck 😂

It’s the Alders that empower these people, not the planners.

The problem is that there’s really no citywide department or entity with funding that will take “ownership” over any non car-oriented space. Same goes for trying to close a street to cars - requires a local steward. CDOT doesn’t want responsibility for anything that isn’t concrete.

A disaster? Crime is at its lowest level since the 1960s, population is increasing, we’re leading the country in office -> residential conversions, corporate investment, etc. he’s not perfect but he deserves more credit than he gets.

Harry Weese, a Chicago architect, designed the stations.

I agree! - just want to be clear that it’s more complicated than “the city” - in the neighborhoods we’re really talking about NIMBYs, Aldermanic prerogative, and a bad zoning code / map outside of the central area / PD process.

Dude, there are 15,000 units approved and entitled in the West Loop alone. This is a private market / financial lending issue - it’s not the city preventing these projects from moving forward.

You can do a stretch that is one-way in one direction for a stretch them switches to the opposite direction for another stretch so only locals would use it. It can be done. It’s a matter of organizing support and political will to overcome potential CDOT resistance.