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Proposed Pace strategic plan puts emphasis on express buses, ridership metrics

By Igor Studenkov | Jul 14, 2021 | No Comments

The vision of Pace’s future outlined in its proposed new strategic vision plan emphasizes express services along highways and Pulse Arterial Rapid Transit services along major corridors.

Rendering of the One Central megadevelopment.

With new details emerging, state funding for One Central makes even less sense

By David Zegeye | Jul 13, 2021 | No Comments

Given the city’s history of using public funds for private developments, One Central has not provided the confidence that Illinois has made a good deal with our money.

Proposed routes for the Crosstown Expressway. The image on the left was the layout protesters fought against. Images: Chicago Tribune via transportation historian Andrew Plummer

Remember the Crosstown? Here’s the story of Chicago’s successful 1970s freeway revolt

By Mary Wisniewski | Jul 12, 2021 | No Comments

The Crosstown plan threatened to ram a multi-lane highway through the heart of the city, but fired-up residents helped stop it.

CDOT commissioner Gia Biagi and 24th Ward alderman Michael Scott ride electric Divvy bikes on Douglas Boulevard in North Lawndale during the ribbon-cutting event. Photo: CDOT

Divvy kicks off West Side expansion with 3,500 bikes, 107 “e-station” parking areas

By Cameron Bolton | Jul 9, 2021 | No Comments

When the expansion is completed, the Divvy system will include 16,500 bikes and more than 800 stations.

Paulina St looking northbound. Traffic barrels outline a path for drivers. Signs on the barrels either read "Slow Down: 5 MPH" or "Slow Down: Shared Street: Yield to Pedestrians"
Photo: Courtney Cobbs

Eyes on the street: Rogers Park’s new “Black Lives Matter” Slow Street

By Courtney Cobbs | Jul 8, 2021 | No Comments

A new Slow Street was recently installed in Rogers Park, including a Black Lives Matter street mural.

Wait, what? The latest alternatives for North DuSable Drive include a scenario with not two, but four "managed lanes."

Weirdness: North DuSable Drive reconstruction could include four tolled bus / car lanes

By Imelda March and John Greenfield | Jul 1, 2021 | No Comments

Meeting attendees complained that the focus of the discussion was still two car-oriented, rather than considering the needs of pedestrians and cyclists.

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