John Greenfield
In addition to editing Streetsblog Chicago, John writes the transportation column for the Chicago Reader weekly paper. A Chicagoan since 1989, he enjoys exploring the city on foot, bike, bus, and 'L' train.
Recent Posts
Columbus Park road diet improves safety, CDOT staffers ridicule Block Club coverage
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In reality plenty of people are benefitting from the project. And emails show CDOT agreed with us that Block Club's coverage, which asserted that the road diet is "causing traffic jams" despite the data, was absurd.
Reckless driver runs red in Illinois Medical District, strikes car, kills man, 33, on sidewalk
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The victim was the sixth pedestrian fatality on Chicago streets this year.
Map: Where drivers have fatally struck people biking on Chicago’s Milwaukee Avenue
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Given it's status as our city's most popular cycling route, it's way past time for the city to turn the entire corridor into a bike-priority street.
Failure to create safe cycling conditions on Milwaukee leads to second bike death at Kilbourn
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The latest victim was barista Nick Parlingayan, 22, fatally struck Wednesday night by a driver who fled the scene.
A tale of two cities: What cycling in Vienna and Budapest reminded me about Chicago
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Comparing Budapest and Vienna offers more evidence that if Chicago wants to mainstream cycling, we've got to build a citywide network of connected, protected bikeways.
Banasiak, Duckworth, and Moeller honored at ATA awards reception
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The Active Transportation Alliance's annual awards reception gives credit to people who've made a difference to improve Chicagoland sustainable transportation in the past year.
How about increasing CTA staffing, reliability, and ridership as a crime-fighting strategy?
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What if we focused on getting the CTA workforce up to full strength as a strategy to increase reliability, ridership, and safety, by having more eyes in the 'L' cars to deter crime and bad behavior?
Lightfoot’s plan to spend $7.5M to pay people to burn gas narrowly passes City Council
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If you're unhappy that your tax dollars will be used to pay people to drive, now you know to hold accountable.
Parallel lies: Romanelli claims Lake St. is the only ‘L’ branch with no redundant bus line
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To justify spending billions to rebuild the Lake Street 'L' to facilitate driving, he falsely claimed it's "the only rail line that doesn’t have a corresponding bus service within an eighth of a mile."
Data analysis found CTA has only been running about half its scheduled Blue Line runs
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A mobile developer found that has been fairly consistently running roughly 52 percent of its scheduled Blue Line service, with particularly bad gaps at night and on weekends.
Lightfoot’s Climate Action Plan calls for “a zero-emission transportation network”
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The city is billing the plan as a "community-informed plan to mitigate climate-change impacts and position Chicago as a job-creator and economic leader in new economy."
Driver fatally struck Allen Lee Jr., 88, on 5-lane Western Avenue in Morgan Park
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Lee was one of five pedestrians fatally struck on Chicago streets this year.