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Chicago New Liberals
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Chicago New Liberals
@ChicagoNewLibs
Growth, Deep Dish, and Tacos • 🌭🍕🌮 • Public transit can be good • No Ketchup • @CNLiberalism
Chicago, IL Katılım Şubat 2020
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@under_current Gotta celebrate the wins we get. These videos are an important part of that
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CWSが勝ったら投稿される海外ミーム動画、好きになってきた😂
SouthSide Behavior@SSBehavior
THE WHITE SOX WON A GAME! THATS TEN! DOUBLE DIGITS IN THE WIN COLUMN! ROLL THE CLIP!
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It's about damn time!
Adam Tuss@AdamTuss
BREAKING - Autonomous Vehicles (self driving taxis) in DC take a huge step forward as DC Councilmember Charles Allen expected to introduce legislation today to “operationalize” AV’s in the District. Unclear when this will come up for vote. @nbcwashington
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@chicagobars Oh of course they would hate this idea. They're happy to exhaust all of the state's pro-business sentiments on a single deal that boosts their wealth.
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@ChicagoNewLibs The Bears majority owners have repeatedly made it clear they have no interest in that generally or specifically.
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Instead of providing the Bears with high opportunity cost carveouts, what if the state moved in a more business-friendly direction more generally and let the Bears figure out financing on their own?
Ben Szalinski@BenSzalinski
Statement from the Chicago Bears. They want more
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We could be doing so much more, this map is mercy
ThePersistence@ScottPresler
Democrats are the pro-gerrymandering party. The Virginia map isn’t anything new. It’s exactly what they did to Illinois: Extend Chicago (Northern VA) out into wildly drawn districts for the sole purpose of electing democrats.
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Join us tonight for our April happy hour! Your first drink is free!
Chicago New Liberals@ChicagoNewLibs
Come to our happy hour this Thursday! Your first drink is on us, so join us as we talk Chicago politics
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The White Sox are using immigrant labor and globalism to produce exciting baseball
Chicago White Sox@whitesox
FIVE STRAIGHT FOR NO. 5️⃣
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the chicago white sox are FUN
White Sox on CHSN@CHSN_WhiteSox
ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!?!?! 😱 MURAKAMI, VARGAS AND MONTGOMERY GO BACK-TO-BACK-TO-BACK 🔥
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@chicagobars @cta Given how much pushback they're receiving from aldermen over this, you can see why CTA leadership takes so long to make even the most obvious changes
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Today in @CTA leadership promises made four or five years too late & tens of millions of wasted dollars ago...
So NOW after wasting many millions on unarmed security "ambassadors" the @CTA is going to spend on social service workers and sworn security?
chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2026…
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@Micky_Horstman It's not totally clear to me what caused the shift. We're only a couple months out from it being evil to not allow people to pee on the trains. I'm not complaining, though!
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The way Chicago Transit debates have evolved over the past year is really crazy…
I was arguing for fare gates & cracking down on fare evasion back in 2024, before the BART study came out or the bill even had legs, and got dogpiled by leftists for it.
Now everyone is on board!
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@Chicago2100 🎯
CTA has hundreds of thousands of users who take hundreds of millions of rides each year. Like almost all public services, the focus has to be on providing value for customers. And yes, from an equity standpoint, poor Chicagoans deserve safe and affordable transit.
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@ChicagoNewLibs I think the takeaway here is the contract was bloated and the money could be better spent on security through other means. Improving equity not through hiring, but the outcome of safer transit for all residents
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How about the city honor its commitment to the much larger number of people of all races who deserve safe and clean public transit?
Chicago Sun-Times@Suntimes
Mayor Brandon Johnson and Acting CTA President Nora Leerhsen on Tuesday defended their decision to replace hundreds of unarmed security guards with “trained professionals,” a move drawing fire from the chair of the City Council’s Black Caucus. chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2026…
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@constans You don't hear too much about free public college these days...
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It’s funny how people who were obsessed with a certain issue lose interest and go silent about it just a few years later. Look in the replies if the report on the success of reducing fare evasion and you see no dissenting replies or complaints.
Ashley Schapitl@AshleySchapitl
It’s genuinely crazy how many people said enforcing fare collection was bad circa 2020-2023.
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I think we transit nerds are very protective of our off-peak service, but it's very hard to justify any sort of tradeoff where performance during peak commuting hours is worsened. It's when the most people are riding!
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But what happens when running trains during off-peak hours leads to lower frequency or less reliability during peak hours?
Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU@CompletedStreet
Hot take: Reducing transit on weekends actually reduces ridership on weekdays. Habits like consistency, and cutting weekend hours breaks transit-riding habits. This is especially true for people who work weekends and tourists, which are a growing share of riders in major cities.
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@richsday I have the same worry, but the hope is that this would make other rules enforcement much easier. If you don't do any enforcement besides this, though, the system probably eventually reverts close to how it was before
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@ChicagoNewLibs I worry that these results are too good to be true, or that we'll see greater fare evasion/circumvention over time. But they're still good!
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Seems like other transit agencies struggling with crime, disorder, and generally gross stations should consider something similar.
nxthompson@nxthompson
The stats here are kind of remarkable. BART's new fare gates have led to a 1,000-hour decline in clean up time; 41% drop in crime; and $10 million increase in projected revenue. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/…
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@questionableway In many ways, transit is relatively easy to enforce rules on because it's such a simple environment. In that light, it's remarkable how bad the private security is/was
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sort of a curious choice, given the state of the CTA, and i am sure it'll generate headlines, but the fact of the matter is private security was not effective and likely is not going to be. we'd be better off putting the money toward a dedicated CTA-focused department of CPD
Paris Schutz@paschutz
BREAKING into @fox32chicago: SEIU confirms that CTA has suddenly laid off 159 private security guards. The notices came on Friday. "We aren’t giving a comment yet, but we can confirm that 159 Local 1 members employed by Monterrey Security were laid off. These officers helped keep the Red Line, Blue Line and several garages monitories and safe." This comes as Springfield passed legislation providing $1.5 billion in new funding for public transit, including beefing up security and public safety.
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