Got off a streetcar and killed by a motor car.  A metaphor for our age.

110 years ago today, Henry Hale Bliss (June 13, 1830 – September 14, 1899) was the first person killed in a motor vehicle accident in the Western Hemisphere. On September 13, 1899 he was disembarking from a streetcar at West [...]

Title: Transit Riders for Public Transportation – DC Advocacy Day
Location: Washington, DC
Link out: Click here
Description: Call your Congresspeople.
Tell them to support operations funding for mass transit and civil rights guarantees.
Date: 2009-09-10

Transit Riders for Public Transportation

CALL-IN DAY – THURSDAY, SEPT 10

LVEJO goes to Washington, DC to meet with Congresspeople about the crisis [...]

Invent the Future with Go To 2040

Date: September 3, 2009

Time: 6:00 pm- 8:00pm

Location: Arturo Velasquez Institute (West Side Technical Institute), 2800 South Western Avenue, Room #1205

Description: Come find out LVEJO’s transit campaigns and help shape Chicago’s plans for development with the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, Latinos Progresando, and The Resurrection Project.

Bilingual English/Spanish program.

Refreshments will [...]