Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Beyond Chicagoland

If crowding on the Lakefront Trail gets worse, this may become the only way to practice social distancing. (Note that this method won't protect you from gangsters and angry luchadores.) Image: Jonathan Roth

Chicago’s lack of car-free streets is creating unsafe crowding on trails during the pandemic

By John Greenfield | Mar 25, 2020 | No Comments

To help Chicagoans to travel and recreate safely, without being exposed to the virus or dangerous drivers, let's create a citywide network of car-free major streets.

An Open Streets car-free event on Milwaukee Avenue in Wicker Park in 2013. Photo: John Greenfield

Let’s respond to coronavirus and climate change with car-free streets, bus and bike lanes

By Courtney Cobbs | Mar 25, 2020 | No Comments

Creating more car-free streets for safe transportation and recreation during the current pandemic crisis would also address the longterm challenge of climate change.

The St. Petersburg Metro. Photo: Wikipedia

From Russia with love: How St. Petersburg’s transit safety strategy compares to Chicago’s

By Igor Studenkov | Mar 19, 2020 | No Comments

The biggest difference is that in St. Petersburg, transit operators before each shift and not allowed to work if they have symptoms.

Governor Pritzker and Mayor Lightfoot at a coronavirus press conference. Photo: Ashlee Rezin Garcia, Chicago Sun-Times

Until Chicago and Illinois leaders step up with a “shelter in place” order, here’s how to stay safe

By John Greenfield | Mar 18, 2020 | No Comments

Most Chicagoland residents are unlikely to follow proper social distancing protocols until they're required to by law, but you should start doing so right now.

San Francisco mayor London Breed. Image: ABC News

San Francisco is ordering residents to “shelter in place.” All major cities should do that.

By John Greenfield | Mar 16, 2020 | No Comments

It's probably only a matter of time before Chicago does the same thing, and all other big cities should follow suit.

Bike riders at North/Damen/Milwaukee in Wicker Park. Photo: John Greenfield

A silver lining of the coronavirus pandemic: more walking, biking, and telecommuting

By John Greenfield | Mar 13, 2020 | No Comments

Hopefully a few months from now the pandemic will be behind us, but the positive trends of more people walking and biking to work or telecommuting will be a permanent thing.

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