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With no service cuts or fare hikes, Metra’s downtown budget hearing was a no-drama affair

By Igor Studenkov | Nov 5, 2019 | No Comments

At the meeting, officials discussed plans to spend $1 million to add “automatic passenger counters,” add shelters with heat lamps, and debut a new type of pass.

La Villita Arch in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Photo: Eric Allix Rogers

Inclusive transportation planning requires uplifting the voices of the marginalized

By Lynda Lopez | Oct 31, 2019 | No Comments

Pursuing mobility justice requires relationship-building, political education, and centering those most marginalized in planning.

Douglas DeMott's family with the ghost bike. Photo: John Greenfield

Loved ones honored Douglas DeMott with ghost bike ceremony in Tinley Park

By John Greenfield | Oct 28, 2019 | No Comments

DeMott was struck from behind last January by a 93-year-old driver while he was biking home from work on Harlem Avenue.

Chicago's downtown Loop Link corridor is a rare example of space being taken away from drivers and allocated to transit riders in our city. Photo: John Greenfield

How the U.S. legal system supports car-dependence, and how we can change that

By James Porter and John Greenfield | Oct 21, 2019 | No Comments

Gregory Shill of the University of Iowa discussed his paper "Should Law Subsidize Driving?" at UIC.

Rendering of the Emmet Street development.

Logan affordable TOD got key approvals, flack from NIMBYs, at Plan Commission hearing

By John Greenfield and Steven Vance | Oct 17, 2019 | No Comments

While opponents said the land would be more valuable as a parking lot or a market-rate development, proponents stressed the value of keeping Logan Square economiclly diverse.

Attendees at the Drexel meeting. Photo: Lynda Lopez

Most meeting attendees opposed King’s plan to turn Drexel bikeways into car parking

By Lynda Lopez | Oct 17, 2019 | No Comments

Less than a year ago CDOT moved the Drexel bike lanes next to the grassy median to make them safer. Now Alderman Sophia King is proposing to move them back and create new parking lanes by the median.

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