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Matt McCabe retweeted
Wow. According to the @Suntimes Chicago Board of Education President Sean Harden has launched investigations into how information on CPS Superintendent finalists got into the hands of reporter @SSKedreporter and how information on a special public meeting to raise property taxes got into my hands.
The Chicago Board of Education has launched two investigations into how internal information got into the hands of the media. chicago.suntimes.com/educati…
Matt McCabe retweeted
'No one should have to die walking or biking for a street to be made safe. And no family should have to relive their loss so others might live. Our administration will act to prevent tragedy, not wait for it.'
— @NYCMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
Matt McCabe retweeted
Another record year in motion! Chicagoans have already taken more than 11 million Divvy and Lime rides in 2025, surpassing last year’s total by October 16th.
ALT Bike corral full of Divvy ebikes
ALT New Divvy station between bike lane and travel lane outside City Hall
ALT Scooter corral full of Lime scooters
ALT New Divvy station full of devices outside Wrigely Field
Matt McCabe retweeted
Canadians fought for walkable streets.
Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal, June 22, 1955: After a driver injured a 7-year-old boy, about 40 women blocked the intersection of Clanranald and Van Horne avenues, demanding safer conditions for walking and letting no motorists through. ...
Matt McCabe retweeted
Chicago’s Divvy bikeshare shattered records in August:
🥇Highest month in program history: 995K rides
🥇Highest month for e-bikes: 500K+ rides
🥇Highest month for scooters: 200K+ rides
The City's efforts to make Divvy more affordable & accessible are paying off!
Matt McCabe retweeted
We're a city designed for people. 🫶
Matt McCabe retweeted
BREAKING: Chicago Board of education has APPROVED CPS budget -- 12 Yes, 7 NO, 1 abstain. Two members who had planned to vote 'No' flipped, one abstained.
Matt McCabe retweeted
BREAKING: Chicago's school board PASSED the district's $10.2 billion budget on a 12-to-7 vote.
That budget does NOT include high-cost borrowing & will only make a controversial pension payment to the city if the district gets unexpected revenue.
Matt McCabe retweeted
Notable: CPS Board members like Michila Blaise and Debby Pope argued that CPS would be "bad partners" if they pushed that pension cost onto the city -- but a majority of council members would actually prefer the city take on that cost.
Matt McCabe retweeted
Sigh. #twill
Here's the map of phone policies by state, as the school year starts. Red is best (full day); Orange is class-time only, which is much less effective. Gold is that local schools must develop a policy, any policy.
apnews.com/article/schools-c…
Matt McCabe retweeted
.@ChiPubSchools Board Members @MichillaB, @Kjzaccor, @debbypo, @ebony4education, @aaronjitubrown, @EdBannonNWChi cut 1,200 Local 1 custodians to “save $40 million”, yet they're proposing a loan that will cost CPS $90+ million in interest payments to wealthy bond investors.
Matt McCabe retweeted
Walking did not merely decline. It was deterred.
Cleveland, March 22, 1982: After unsuccessful requests for a traffic light and a fourth injury to a child crossing the street, residents organized a protest. ...
Matt McCabe retweeted
Is Randy Clarke America’s highest performing bureaucrat
Matt McCabe retweeted
Car crashes have killed or seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year, but only one of these things is treated as a public safety crisis.
ALT injuries and deaths from reported shootings and traffic crashes in Chicago from January to May 2025
Matt McCabe retweeted
Not DALLAS passing large-scale parking reforms before Chicago. That’s just embarrassing.
Matt McCabe retweeted
We’ve adopted daylighting - also known as removing illegal parking too close to an intersection - on virtually every Hoboken intersection to create safer streets. It allows for maximum visibility of pedestrians in our roadways, and is a key component of our Vision Zero program.
And it works - with Hoboken as proof.
This should be adopted in cities across the country, and I strongly support the NYC Councilmembers pushing this bill.
When you walk up to an intersection, can you see if there's a car coming? Or is a parked car blocking your view — and blocking a driver's view of you?
We can fix this dangerous problem with @CMJulieWon's universal daylighting bill to make every NYC intersection safer.
Matt McCabe retweeted
Children are the most vulnerable road users, and they're most exposed to traffic violence while walking or biking.
I had a hunch that CPS schools with lots of resident students also had lots of nearby crashes involving kids on foot or bike. Unfortunately, the data confirm this.
Matt McCabe retweeted
The Chicago Teachers Union ended up spending the most money in the city's first school board elections. Of the 10 elected seats, three of the union's backed candidates won, plus one more who was uncontested.
Spending in Chicago’s first school board election tops $13 million @MilaKoumpilova @chalkbeatCHI chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/0…
Matt McCabe retweeted
Between Sept 2017 and Jan 2025, at least 4028 Chicago kids were injured by a car while walking or biking. On average, that's 1.5 injury crashes everyday.
29% of those crashes happened between 7-9 am or 3-5 pm on a school day. Kids should be able to walk to school without fear.
ALT Chart showing the number of children injured in a car crash while walking or biking in Chicago between September 2017 - January 2025