Eyes on the Street: Curb protection on Kinzie Street, and the Dearborn detour
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Adding robust physical protection is very important for making bikeways safer and more appealing to less-confident cyclists.
Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Eyes on the Street
Obama Center construction makes it difficult to access 63rd Street beach on foot, bus
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The construction on the Obama Presidential Center has impacted many different groups in many different ways, but pedestrians, bike riders, and transit rider have borne the brunt.
Chicago, Bike Grid Now’s Halsted Bike Bus provides a safe, fun ride downtown
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"Whenever there is a safe place for people to bike, the number of Chicagoans who come out is tremendous."
Anatomy of a bike crash: Why did today’s collision at Addison/Drake happen?
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A teenage girl on a bike collided with a driver, apparently because she was understandably afraid to ride in a four-lane street. What should we do about that?
Volunteers protect pedestrians from DLSD red light scofflaws, CPD enables the lawbreakers
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During an action to force northbound drivers to stop running red lights during the walk signal at Balbo/DLSD, police manually changed the signal to accommodate motorists, making pedestrians wait longer.
The new larger Sundays on State car-free fest is awesome. Here’s how it could be even better.
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The city could improve Sundays on State further by rerouting traffic around the entire length of the event, as is the case with most street fairs in Chicago.