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Biking on 55th Street in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. Photo: Steven Lucy

Glass-half-full Bike League report highlights Chicago’s successes in promoting cycling

By John Greenfield | Jan 28, 2022 | No Comments

LAB did a good job of laying out some of the things that CDOT has gotten right when promoting cycling, while noting that we still need a lot more miles of protected bike lanes.

Omaha's only protected bike lane, a pilot project on a 1.5-mile stretch of Harney Street, was installed last summer. Image: Google Maps

People for Bikes is wrong: Chicago isn’t a worse bike city than Jacksonville or Omaha

By John Greenfield | Jan 27, 2022 | No Comments

Yes, Chicago got screwed by People for Bikes' flawed rating system. But we still have lots of work to do need to make cycling as safe, enjoyable, and normalized as it is in truly great cycling cities.

Medellín Metrocable cars. Researchers found a correlation between infrastructure investments in the station neighborhoods and lower homicide rates and increased societal trust. Photo: Camilo Sanchez via Wikipedia

Notes from Medellín: Can infrastructure investments help reduce interpersonal violence?

By Courtney Cobbs | Jan 13, 2022 | No Comments

A 2012 research project conducted in Medellín, Colombia examined the impact of the built environment on reducing violence and fostering societal trust.

A raised bike lane on Commonwealth Avenue near Boston College. A facility like this can encourage "normal" people to bike. Photo: John Greenfield

Who should we really be building bikeways for?

By John Greenfield | Jan 10, 2022 | No Comments

A discussion of whether or not "door zone" lanes lanes are terrible yielded an essential truth: To dramatically build bike mode-share, what we need a network of 8-to-80 facilities.

The Washington-Wabash 'L' station. CTA and Metra rolled own new lower fare prices this year. Photo: John Greenfield

The lows and highs of Chicagoland’s 2021 transportation news

By Courtney Cobbs | Jan 7, 2022 | No Comments

It's likely 2022 will bring even more advocacy and direction action around sustainable transportation, and necessary and robust responses from city and state transportation officials.

Pritzker discusses I-57 expansion plans at a December press event. Photo: Facebook

Governor Pritzker’s latest wrongheaded remarks about highway expansion, annotated

By John Greenfield | Jan 3, 2022 | No Comments

Illinois Public Media host Brian Mackey did a good job of holding Pritzker accountable for the disconnect between the governor's stated climate goals and his highway expansion plans.

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