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Ryan Richter, AICP

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Transportation/urban planner. Fascinated with cities, geography and the movement of people and goods. Chicagoan. ryanjrichter.com

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Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com · Jun 13

Me, yapping about the benefit/cost and community mobility improvements of the CREATE Program.

Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com · 1d

We have some council members that could benefit from watching that!

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Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com · 2d

This tells me that too many people, Ari Shapiro included, unquestionably buy into AI without thinking. It's really pathetic journalism here. Simon's answer is perfect.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com · 2d

Maybe we all should be Scabby?!

Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com · 2d

Expert level trolling here. Portland, can we export this to Chicago?

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com · 3d

I was in Portland last month. It's a beautiful, peaceful city. Lovely place to visit and live in. Needless to say, Chicago is also a beautiful, peaceful city.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump on Portland: "It's like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like, worse than that."

Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com · 3d

That's not the Picasso, nor Daley Plaza. It's Calder's Flamingo sculpture in Federal Plaza, Chicago.

Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com · 4d

My first thought was Morris, but it felt a little too closely connected to Chicago's logistics and transportation economy. I'm personally leaning towards LaSalle.

Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com · 4d

I am most interested in the intersection of the Upper Midwest, Great Lakes, Midland and Heartland regions. Is this Joliet? LaSalle? DeKalb?

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 5d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com · 4d

Yes, this is exactly the problem. Plus, a lot of pedestrians use the bridge to get to the Gladstone Park Metra station. Of course, the ped bridge is very close to the Kennedy off ramp, so drivers are used to going at high speeds. The transition to local residential street from interstate not ideal.

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Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com · 4d

If CBS would have done a little journalism they would have learned about the pedestrian death last year near the ped bridge. The ped bridge is a vital link to the local elementary school and Metra station.

Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com · 4d

If CBS would have done just a little journalism they would have learned about the pedestrian fatality last year on Avondale near the ped bridge and how that ped bridge is used by children to get to the local elementary school and people of all ages to get to the Metra station.

Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com · 8d

I'm drinking whiskey at Delilah's today. It's the only way to get through this day.

Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com · 8d

Sure does.

Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com · 9d

Damn it, I meant CTA. Ah well, FTA is the federal oversight agency.

Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com · 9d

Sounds like the party still has its collective head up its ass. Time to admit what is obvious to any impartial observer: the republic as we have known it is broken. There's no going back to before Trump.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9d

Everyone should listen to Chris Murphy's extraordinary warning about Trump on our pod. First, he says the logic must be that the more lawless he gets, the stiffer the resistance.

"If I give in and consent to these kinds of tactics then it just normalizes it all." 1/

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

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Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com · 9d

This apropo of the funding stoppage of FTA RLE and RPM projects. With no oversight, the administration can do this without penalty.

Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 9d

The Trump administration is picking and choosing what programs to fund so any Congressional budget agreement is meaningless, other than notionally opening the government. King Trump now gets to decide funding and article 1 of the Constitution essentially means nothing. 1/

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Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com · 9d

CTA RLE and RPM projects are under funding freezes.

Reuters @reuters.com · 9d

White House freezes $2.1 billion in Chicago projects, Vought says reut.rs/4mFOoPX

White House freezes $2.1 billion in Chicago projects, Vought says

The U.S. federal government has put $2.1 billion in Chicago infrastructure projects on hold, Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said on Friday, in another jab at a Democrat-led city during the U.S. government shutdown.

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Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com · 9d

Thanks. This nullifies my initial complaint a bit about the stadium setback and is definitely a step in the right direction. I'd love to see a more detailed site plan rather than the boxy renderings they show on the website.

I'm not an architect, so I'll refrain from any architectural criticism.

Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com · 9d

Have you seen an updated site plan? My understanding is that they removed a few of the lagoons for additional parking. Unsure if they pushed the stadium footprint closer.

Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com · 9d

It has the ability to expand to 70k. Why it wouldn't be that size for regular season Bears games in an unanswered question.

Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com · 9d

They can change things if they want, but not at taxpayer expense. The existing infrastructure here is adequate for what they're proposing.

Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com · 9d

And that's fine! I think there's a way to thread the needle on this a bit more and make the stadium a bit more accessible to the train platform.

Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com · 9d

Metra UP-NW already serves this site very well, with a direct connection to the Blue Line at Jefferson Park.

Extending the Brown Line west to the Blue makes a lot of sense, but that's a discussion for a different thread.

Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com · 9d

It's not clear to me if this access will be preserved. Also, I never knew about that road!

Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com · 9d

There's also the traffic problems generated here as the only way into the Bears parking facilities seems to be off Euclid. I would love to see a reworking of the NW Highway interchange with IL-53 to get secondary access from the north.

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