Samuel Kling

A CTA Pink Line train travels through the West Loop on March 8, 2021.

Commentary: How Chicago can avoid the looming global traffic crisis

May 15, 2020 at 10:21 p.m.

As city leaders move beyond coping with the COVID-19 crisis to imagining the future, how to move — literally — poses a challenge. In normal times, almost a third of...

The meter deal requires the city to maintain a vast, costly supply of on-street parking in central areas, even as demand for such parking progressively weakens.

That parking meter deal is still haunting Chicago. Here’s one fix Lightfoot can make.

May 31, 2019 at 4:22 p.m.

Here’s one unexpected outcome of the mayor’s race: Chicagoans got a respite from the kvetching over that old political punching bag, the 2008 parking meter deal. Toni Preckwinkle opposed the...

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