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The 4000 block of West Bryn Mawr Avenue, looking east. While Bryn Mawr is relatively quiet near the Valley Line trailhead, it becomes highway-like east of Pulaski Road. Image: google Maps

Bryn Mawr protected bike lanes on ballot in 39th Ward participatory budgeting election

By Courtney Cobbs | Jan 26, 2022 | No Comments

Bike lanes along Bryn Mawr avenue are among several road safety proposals on the 39th ward participatory budget ballot.

A traffic circle at Granville and Paulina. There's another one at Hermitage. Photo: Courtney Cobbs

Residents elect Granville bike lanes, city caves to pressure from drivers and shelves them

By Courtney Cobbs | Jan 21, 2022 | No Comments

If CDOT had more imagination, they would install traffic diverters on Granville to discourage driving and make biking safer and more comfortable.

GPTC Route R1 and other buses wait at the Adam Benjamin Metro Center, the main GPTC transfer hub that doubles as the downtown Gary South Shore Line station. Photo: Igor Studenkov

Gary, Indiana considers a switch to all-electric buses

By Igor Studenkov | Jan 19, 2022 | No Comments

GPTC bought four electric buses that are expected to be delivered by late spring/early summer. They will primarily be used on the Broadway, one of Gary’s main commercial thoroughfares.

A red light camera in Chicago's West Ridge neighborhood and a paint-and-post sidewalk extension in the Austin community. Photos: Jeff Zoline, CDOT

How should we respond to the UIC and ProPublica reports on Chicago traffic cameras?

By John Greenfield | Jan 14, 2022 | No Comments

There's no question that the cams are preventing injury and fatality crashes, but Black and Latino motorists and racking up more tickets and suffering financing hardship. Should we reform or abolish it.

A cluster of old industrial buildings at the northeast corner of Ashland/Elston, including the Horween Leather Company on the left (built 1886), and a storage building that dates to 1899. Photo: Eric Allix Rogers

CDOT plans overhaul of complex Armitage/CortlandAshland/Elston junction

By John Greenfield | Jan 10, 2022 | No Comments

Streetsblog Chicago will continue reporting on this project to help ensure that it results in a net improvement for sustainable transportation.

The new Divvy station at Olive-Harvey College, with the system's new model of electric bikes. Note the Blue Brothers car jumping the 95th Street bridge over the Calumet River at the top of the ad panel. Photo: CDOT

City Colleges of Chicago is providing free Divvy annual memberships to all students

By John Greenfield | Jan 5, 2022 | No Comments

In other collegiate cycling news, Olive-Harvey College is, for the first time, offering an eight-week Bicycle Maintenance and Repair course.

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