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Car Free Keith @carfreekeith.bsky.social · 2h

It was good to meet you too!

Car Free Keith @carfreekeith.bsky.social · 1d

We’re winning so much I’m getting tired of it

Craig F @cfoh.bsky.social · 1d

This administration is totally fine with more Americans getting cancer from water contaminants if it means corporations and their wealthy friends might keep a penny or two more. Insane.

The #EPA is now the Exploitation & Profiteering Agency.

www.newsweek.com/epa-drinking...

EPA moves to roll back drinking water standards

The Environmental Protection Agency is looking to roll back regulatory standards for three types of PFAS chemicals in drinking water systems.

www.newsweek.com

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Car Free Keith @carfreekeith.bsky.social · 1d

Is it HNL Transit Fan? They were consulted for this video lol

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Car Free Keith @carfreekeith.bsky.social · 1d

If you become a paid member of my channel you can watch this video early and get a sneak peak of the soon-to-open Honolulu Skyline extension to Kalihi Transit Center

youtu.be/yALh-W3yoec?...

YouTube thumbnail showing a population density map of Honolulu with the soon to be extended Skyline route over it. One of the HART trains is seen at the bottom left. The text reads “NEW EXTENSION.”

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Car Free Keith @carfreekeith.bsky.social · 1d

I have so many cool videos coming up that I’m so excited about making. My Honolulu video also will be out in a week!

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Car Free Keith @carfreekeith.bsky.social · 4d

I made a video about these kind of flights. While I’m sure the vast vast majority of people on them are just transiting through O’Hare, there are hundreds of flights per day in the US that are like this, and with good rail connections to the hubs these flights would be a lot less prevalent

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Car Free Keith @carfreekeith.bsky.social · 4d

Superliners on tonight’s Carl Sandburg to Chicago as a little treat

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Car Free Keith @carfreekeith.bsky.social · 6d

Turns out the freight train pulled into the platform at Galesburg and had engine problems and couldn’t move lol at least it happened right by the BNSF yard so they could come fix it right away

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Car Free Keith @carfreekeith.bsky.social · 6d

Tonight we sat for more than an hour less than half a mile from the Amtrak station I was getting off at waiting for a freight train to clear the platform. Frustrating how little regard the freight railroads have for peoples’ time

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Car Free Keith @carfreekeith.bsky.social · 7d

cta Blue District lines

Car Free Keith @carfreekeith.bsky.social · 7d

This probably isn’t a revolutionary new thought but it really does seem like that’s the point more than immigration enforcement. Inflict damage on thriving communities and hurt the cities that don’t bend the knee to him

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 8d

Mother and children detained in Millennium Park released from ICE custody, father flown to Texas detention center: ‘We’re praying for a miracle’

The move came after a federal judge ordered that Noemi Chavez and her 8 year-old daughter and 3-year-old are protected from deportation or removal from Illinois while the government responds to a h…

www.chicagotribune.com

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Car Free Keith @carfreekeith.bsky.social · 8d

Considering it was a battle to get Texas to spend less than $4mil to keep the Heartland Flyer alive, this makes me proud to be from Illinois

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Kara Transit Authority @stormykara.bsky.social · 8d

capitolfax.com/2025/10/01/p...

Lots of exciting things here, but most exciting to me:

$388.8M for re-establishing pax rail service Chicago-Quad Cities
$270M to re-establish pax rail service Rockford-Chicago.
$3.8M & $7.4M for Pace Pulse 95th & Halsted lines

Capitol Fax.com - Your Illinois News Radar » Pritzker announces $50.6 billion multi-year infrastructure programCapitolFax.com

capitolfax.com

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Car Free Keith @carfreekeith.bsky.social · 9d

“South Shore had been a landing spot for many Venezuelans when tens of thousands of migrants were bused from the Southern border to Chicago and other Democrat-led cities.”

How traumatic for those poor people to be used as a political pawn not once, but twice. Absolutely awful.

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 9d

“It felt like a war zone,” O’Loughlin said. “It feels like people don’t know the extent of what is happening unless it’s on Michigan Avenue.”

“They tore the whole building apart,” Szymanski said."

Armed Agents Raid South Shore Apartment Building Overnight Tuesday

The federal agents arrived in moving trucks and knocked down doors inside the apartment building, detaining as many as 40 people, witnesses said.

blockclubchicago.org

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Car Free Keith @carfreekeith.bsky.social · 10d

Biking through Little Village for critical mass the other day had the same vibe. Felt much quieter than usual. Makes me feel for the businesses

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Car Free Keith @carfreekeith.bsky.social · 10d

This was a tough read, but it needs to be shared

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10d

oh the border patrol accomplished this bit of work with the help of a kavanaugh stop www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/i...

Mother, children detained by ICE at Millennium Park Sunday held at O’Hare with other families: ‘We never imagined’

The mother said she felt her family was targeted because of their appearance. “There were a lot more people there, but the agents came directly to us because of how we look,” she said.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Car Free Keith @carfreekeith.bsky.social · 10d

This makes me so fucking sad

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 10d

It's sad to think that the family that was detained by ICE at Millenium Park on Sunday went because their daughter wanted to visit the park. Should have been an easy choice but now immigrants in Chicago feel they should stay away from parks and refrain from shopping. Disappearing from public life.

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Car Free Keith @carfreekeith.bsky.social · 10d

Two things of note, one, they were literally about to throw someone to the ground & potentially seriously hurt them based simply on the color of their skin, and two, how were they so comically bad at it

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10d

U.S. Border Patrol agents tried and failed to detain a man in downtown Chicago (via Christopher Sweat)

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Car Free Keith @carfreekeith.bsky.social · 10d

I’d love to see that too. Kinda sucks that most corners of that iconic intersection are all either banks or chain places

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Car Free Keith @carfreekeith.bsky.social · 10d

Just this Saturday, pretty abrupt

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Car Free Keith @carfreekeith.bsky.social · 10d

It’s so cool that this morning I got to take a mostly nuclear powered train that was built in Chicago to the country’s most connected airport. God I love Chicago

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Car Free Keith @carfreekeith.bsky.social · 11d

I spent $121 at Meet me on Milwaukee today. Really tried to build that financial case for pedestrianization

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Car Free Keith @carfreekeith.bsky.social · 11d

I hope a local coffee shop opens up in the now closed Starbucks at North/Milwauee/Damen. When I lived in New Orleans, Starbucks closed its Canal St location and a local shop opened in its place and it was 100x better.

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Car Free Keith @carfreekeith.bsky.social · 11d

This train got the disappearin railroad blues

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