Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Chicago Suburbs

There are lots of lots, like this one at the Frosty Penguin, along Busse Highway on the stretch where IDOT wants to strip parking. Image: Google Maps

IDOT wants to strip parking for bike lanes. Merchants push back. Both sides are wrong.

By John Greenfield | Oct 19, 2021 | No Comments

IDOT wants to strip parking on a short stretch of Busse Highway in Park Ridge to make way for bike lanes. Residents are pushing back. But a 4-to-3 conversion would be a better strategy.

The Blue Island Vermont St. Station. Photo: Metra

Metra board approves $3.1M contract for rehab of Rock Island Line’s Vermont St. station

By John Greenfield | Oct 13, 2021 | No Comments

Hopefully the planned pedestrian upgrades will involve making it safer and easier to cross Vermont Avenue between the Rock Island and Metra Electric stations.

A Proterra model battery electric powered bus. Pace is planning to spend around $10 million to introduce electric buses, using this model.

Proposed Pace 2022 budget expands infrastructure, but is vague on service restorations

By Igor Studenkov | Oct 8, 2021 | No Comments

The suburban bus agency hinted at reinstating at least some of the suspended routes, but the public won’t find out any details until Pace releases its 2022 budget on October 20.

A Pace bus at the Highland Park Metra station. Photo: John Greenfield

Have your say on Pace’s 2022 budget, which includes service expansion and no fare increases

By John Greenfield | Oct 6, 2021 | No Comments

Pace says that, if approved, the budget will fund the largest service and infrastructure expansion in Pace’s history.

Looking east towards the bridge site from McCormick Boulevard. Photo: Jeff Zoline

Lincolnwood plans to build the Pratt Boulevard bike-ped bridge Streetsblog proposed

By John Greenfield | Aug 17, 2021 | No Comments

The new span will bisect the one-mile gap in bridges over the North Shore Channel by the eponymous trail.

Riders board the Route 383 bus at Midway Airport. The route is returning to its pre-pandemic schedule, with some service changes, on August 8. Photo: Igor Studenkov

Pace launches campaign to attract riders, restores some pre-pandemic service

By Igor Studenkov | Aug 3, 2021 | No Comments

As Pace takes its first steps toward reversing some of its pandemic-related service cuts, it’s launching an ad campaign to bring riders back.

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